In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes
the parallel worlds of the great ‘unmentionable’, class, in modern
Britain: in the streets and in the media.
The ghost of Pinochet haunts the campaign against Chavez
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger describes how he sought the help of Chile’s former political prisoners, tortured by Pinochet, in the making of his film, The War on Democracy, and how they bear witness to the historical meaning of the current campaign of propaganda and lies aimed at Venezuela and Hugo Chavez.
Good ol’ Bill, the liberal hero
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger looks
forward to the arrival of Bill Clinton in London where an “audience”
with him will cost up to £799 a head. In examining Clinton’s liberal
credentials and comparing them to George W. Bush’s record, Pilger
illuminates what Hillary Clinton might offer America and the world as
the first female president.
The invisible government
In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has
become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its
founders, represents ‘an invisible government’.
The Kennedy myth rises again
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger recalls the
night Robert Kennedy was shot in his presence and the myths that
followed his untimely death. Having elevated Kennedy to be one of his
heroes, Prime Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown describes him as the
pinnacle of “morality” – when this myth really tells us about Brown
himself and his political twin, Tony Blair.
Iran may be the greatest crisis of modern times
In a cover piece for the New Statesman, John Pilger evokes the
memory of Germans ‘looking from the side’ at Bergen-Belsen to describe
the challenge facing us in the West as the Bush/Blair ‘long war’ becomes
‘perhaps the greatest crisis of modern times’.
Closing the gap between torturer and victim
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger reports on
new revelations that torturers in America’s ‘war on terror’ were
directed personally by the US secretary of defence. He argues that the
historical antedote to such barbarity is the new exuberant democracy
movement in Latin America.
Iran: a war is coming
In his latest piece for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes
American plans to attack Iran, possibly with nuclear weapons. Although
the majority of Americans voted last November to end the war in Iraq,
the Bush cabal remains undeterred by inspid protests from Democrats and
is proceeding with another, even more dangerous adventure.
Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger examines the spectacle of the Murdoch scandal and its cover for a system that welcomed Rupert Murdoch’s “rapacious devotion to the free market”.
The strange silencing of liberal America
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger examines the ‘Obama effect’ on much of liberal opinion and anti-war dissent in the United States, of which the recent banning of his film, ‘The War You Don’t See’, is a symptom.
