John Pilger reaches behind the news of war and suffering and is inspired by the rise of popular resistance throughout the world: from Lebanon to Latin America, to an unprecedented level of political awareness in Britain.
Out of Eden
The Indian Ocean paradise of Diego Garcia was once home to more than
a thousand contented British subjects. In 1966, Harold Wilson’s
government sold it to the US in a secret, illegal deal and terrorised
the population into leaving.
Bolivia: a glimpse of freedom
The long, wide, bleak streets of cobblestones and tufts of petrified
grass reach for the sacred mountain Illimani, whose pyramid of snow is
like a watchtower.
Chavez is a threat because he offers the alternative of a decent country
Venezuela’s president is using oil revenues to liberate the poor –
no wonder his enemies want to overthrow him, writes John Pilger in the
Guardian.
Put out more flags: the making of another America
Writing in the New Statesman, John Pilger’s second dispatch from
Australia, his homeland, describes how the neo-conservative government
of John Howard has set out to change the basic culture of Australian
society.
Blair’s legacy: from liberalism to Murdochracy
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger writes that in Britain,
after more than a decade of the New Labour “project”, once noble terms
such as democracy, reform, even freedom, have been emptied of their true
meaning and replaced by a murdochracy.
How the Anglo-American elite shares its ‘values’
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes
the origins and ‘shared values’ of the British-American Project for a
Successor Generation, founded in 1983 by Ronald Reagan with support from
Rupert Murdoch. Today’s BAP meets every year alternately in the US and
Britain and includes scientists, economists, community leaders and
journalists, a number of them liberals or ‘on the left’.
Exposing the guardians of power
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger pays tribute to the influence of an extraordinary British website Medialens.org whose creators David Edwards and David Cromwell have challenged the declared objectivity and other myths of the liberal media. On 2 December, they will receive the Gandhi International Peace Prize.
Sicko 2: The destruction of Britain’s health service
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes
how the notorious US healthcare companies exposed by Michael Moore in
his film, Sicko, are now invading Britain and warms of the destruction
by stealth of the model for universal for health care, Britain’s
acclaimed National Health Service.
Why they’re afraid of Michael Moore
John Pilger marks the European release of Michael Moore’s latest
film, Sicko, with an examination of why the documentary film-maker
exerts such influence, with fans and enemies alike. “In societies ruled
by an invisible government of media,” he writes, “no one has broken
through like Moore, who breaks every rule by reporting from the ground
up, instead of from the top down.”
