Articles by: John Pilger

Author Biography:

John Pilger, journalist, author and film director, has won many distinctions for his work, including Britain’s highest award for journalism twice, an American ‘Emmy’ and a British Academy Award. His complete archive is held at the British Library. He lives in London and Sydney.

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We are Spartacus

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John Pilger

9 Nov 2023

In my lifetime, the United States has overthrown or attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, most democracies.

The Coming War: Speak up. Now.

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John Pilger

2 May 2023

Within a few years, the cult of 'me-ism' had all but overwhelmed many people's sense of acting together, of social justice and internationalism.

The betrayers of Julian Assange

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John Pilger

10 Mar 2023

Will Albanese back Australia or Washington on Julian Assange? If he is 'sincere', as the more do-eyed Labor Party supporters say, what is he waiting for? If he fails to secure Julian's release, Australia will cease to be sovereign. We will be little Americans. Official.

Silencing the lambs. How propaganda works

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John Pilger

9 Sep 2022

Or do we live in a Media Society where brainwashing is insidious and relentless, and perception is filtered according to the needs and lies of state and corporate power?

War in Europe and the rise of raw propaganda

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John Pilger

18 Feb 2022

demonstrated its bloody aggression in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and broken solemn promises to pull back.  Having dragged European "allies" into American wars that do not concern them, the great unspoken is that NATO itself is the real threat to European security.

The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange

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John Pilger

11 Dec 2021

What was truly shocking last Friday was that the High Court  judges ... who read out their words – showed no hesitation in sending Julian to his death, living or otherwise. They offered no mitigation, no suggestion that they had agonised over legalities or even basic morality.

The Great Game of smashing countries

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John Pilger

25 Aug 2021

As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their "allies" destroyed.

A day in the death of British justice

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John Pilger

13 Aug 2021

In the upper reaches of the masonry that is the British judiciary there are, I understand, still those who believe in real law and real justice from which the term "British justice" takes its sanctified reputation in the land of the Magna Carta. It now rests on their ermined shoulders whether that history lives on or dies.

The Most Lethal Virus is Not COVID. It is War.

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John Pilger

17 Dec 2020

Covid has provided cover for this pandemic of propaganda. In July, Morrison took his cue from Trump and announced that Australia, which has no enemies, would spend $270 billion on provoking one, including missiles that could reach China.

Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange

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John Pilger

2 Oct 2020

I have sat in many courts and seldom known such a perversion of due process. This is due revenge.
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Informit: The power of disobedience

Arena Magazine 64

John Pilger

Apr 2003

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Informit: Truth in war and peace

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John Pilger

Aug 1997

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