In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger says the death of General Suharto, the former dictator of Indonesia, is an opportunity to review the role of this “model” for high crimes in the modern era – from Indonesia, to Chile, to Vietnam – and the powerful friends who ensured he would never suffer the fate of Saddam Hussein.
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Nuclear War, courtesy of NATO
Kosovo, like Vietnam, has liberal support. But what of our weapons?
Torture is news but it’s not new
Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger recalls the news coverage of the war in Vietnam and how American atrocities and torture were not considered newsworthy. The same was true of the brutality of British colonial adventures.
In a Land of Fear
For 34 years the people of Burma have been ruled by a military junta as tyrannical and secretive as any in the modern era. Now, desperate for hard currency, the country’s dictators are at pains to establish Burma as a holiday destination.
Australia is the only developed country whose government has been condemned as racist by the United Nations
According to the folksy writer Matthew Engel, the glories of the Olympic Games have a cathartic effect on nations. The 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles ‘helped the US regain the confidence it lost in Vietnam’.
George Bush’s other poodle
John Howard, Australia’s PM, is the mouse that roars for America, whipping his country into war fever and paranoia about terrorism within.
Waging war against refugees
Few asylum-seekers actually reach Australia’s shores, and if they do, their treatment beggars belief.
Australia: the 51st State
In his latest article for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the remarkable servility of John Howard’s government in Australia to the Bush administration – Howard is known as Bush’s ‘deputy sheriff’ – and how this is eroding the country’s freedoms.
Breaking the great Australian silence
In a speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of Australia’s human rights prize, the Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger describes the “unique features” of a political silence in Australia: how it affects the national life of his homeland and the way Australians see the world and are manipulated by great power “which speaks through an invisible government of propaganda that subdues and limits our political imagination and ensures we are always at war – against our own first people and those seeking refuge, or in someone else’s country”.
Cover-up: a film’s travesty of omissions
John Pilger recalls his undercover reporting from East Timor and reveals that a major new movie, Balibo, perpetuates the cover-up of the role played western governments in the genocial invasion of East Timor by Indonesia and the Australian government’s part in the murder of its own journalists.
