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.
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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.”
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.
Power, propaganda and conscience in the ‘War on Terror’
John Pilger delivers the Summer School Lecture at the University of Western Australia in Perth on power, propaganda and conscience in the ‘war on terror’, with special reference to the part played by Australian government, media and scholarship.
John Pilger hails the Brigaders
John Pilger explains how the legacy of the International Brigades helps us understand not only the nature of fascism, but that even those who are not fascists have similar goals.
The salacious demolition job on Martha Gellhorn cannot obscure a remarkable human being
The other day, the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism was awarded in honour of the great American reporter who lived in this country until she died three years ago. Gellhorn adhered to no consensus of the kind that shapes and distorts so much journalism. She regarded governments, indeed all authority, as her professional enemies, and their propaganda as “official drivel”.
The new world war – the silence is a lie
John Pilger describes the ‘great silence’ over the annual British party conferences as politicians and their club of commentators say nothing about a war provoked and waged across the world the responsibility for which lies close at hand.
Beware of the Obama hype. What ‘change’ in America really means
John Pilger writes that the lauding of Barack Obama has a history and that ‘historical moments’ ought to be less about their symbolism and accompanying histrionics than what they really mean. The question is: what is Obama’s true relation to unchanging American myths about the imposition of its notorious power?
The politics of bollocks
John Pilger borrows from Lord West of Spithead to deconstruct current mythology, such as the ‘impartiality’ of the BBC and the ‘radical changes’ implemented by President Obama.
Hollywood’s new censors
John Pilger describes how censorship in Hollywood works in the age of the ‘war on terror’. Unlike the crude days of the cold war, it’s by omission and ‘introspective dross’.
