Vietnam

Shareholders wanted the Mirror editor out long before the allegedly bogus photos. Does anyone care that the BBC and other papers fall for the hoaxes of US and UK rulers?

The war correspondent James Cameron was smeared as a “dupe of communism”. “When they call you a dupe,” he told me, “they’re really complaining that you are not their dupe”.

Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger asks whether the latest inquiry called by Tony Blair – into the “failure of intelligence” – will turn out, like the Hutton inquiry, as a whitewash.

“Anti-Americanism” has long been a pejorative, used to denigrate critics of an imperial system. But it is the opposite, “Americanism”, which threatens a war on the world.

The destruction caused by Katrina has enabled us to glimpse realities that are usually carefully hidden away. And what we discover is that New Orleans and Baghdad are not so far apart.

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes a kind of war lover and war salesman (and woman) very different from the ‘almost endearing fools’ he has met in real wars.

In a cover article for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the headlong rush by the United States, aided by Britain, to attack Iran. Like the attack on Iraq, there is a secret agenda.

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the the difference between Iraq as seen on the corporate news and the real news, such as the return of US-trained and armed death squads, reminiscent of Central America and Vietnam.

Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US – and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger quotes from a letter received from a British army officer serving in Iraq and sent to the BBC. The officer calls the war unwinnable and wrong, and appeals to the media not to swallow “the office/White House line”. For the first time, journalists are now being scrutinised by the soldiers whose war they report.