In a report for the Guardian, John Pilger salutes the City of Sydney’s recognition of the invasion of Australia and describes the growing resistance, in culture and conscience, against an unspoken apartheid.
The ‘good war’ is a bad war
John Pilger describes how the invasion of Afghanistan, which was widely supported in the West as a ‘good war’ and justifiable response to 9/11, was actually planned months before 9/11 and is the latest instalment of ‘a great game’.
The danse macabre of US-style democracy
John Pilger looks back on the US presidential campaigns he has reported and draws parallels with the current ‘ritual danse macabre’ that covers for democracy and the veiled propaganda that accompanies it.
Honouring the ‘unbreakable promise’
Almost fourteen years after South Africa’s first democratic elections and the fall of racial apartheid, John Pilger describes, in an address at Rhodes University, the dream and reality of the new South Africa and the responsibility of its new elite.
A tribute to Philip Jones Griffiths, who understood war and peace, and people
John Pilger pays tribute to his friend, the great photo-journalist Philip Jones Griffiths, who has died. “No photographer,” he writes, “produced such finely subversive work, knowing that truth in war is always subversive.”
The quiet rendition of Moudud Ahmed
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger describes the extraordinary life of Moudud Ahmed, who in 1971 led him into liberated East Pakistan, later Bangladesh. Now a political prisoner of the military dictatorship in Dhaka, Moudud Ahmed is seriously ill in a country which, says his wife Hasna, “is itself a prison”.
The struggle against apartheid has begun again in South Africa
John Pilger describes how economic apartheid has become a model for much of the world and resistance to it has begun again in the country where apartheid was said to be in the past.
Latin America: the hidden war on democracy
John Pilger argues that an unreported war is being waged by the United States, and Britain, to restore power to the privileged classes at the expense of the majority.
Destroying the best of Britain
John Pilger describes how the New Labour government is destroying one of the the venerable features of “communal decency” in Britain – the local post office. Economies need to be made, though not in the pursuit of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
From Kennedy to Obama: Liberalism’s last fling
John Pilger refers back to his travels with Robert Kennedy to describe the false hopes offered by those, like Barack Obama, who exploit the appeal of liberalism then present a very different reality.
