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| JOHN PILGER INTERVIEWED ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF 'A SECRET COUNTRY' |
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Twenty years ago, John Pilger's people's history of Australia, 'A Secret Country', was published. He is interviewed by Phillip Adams for ABC Radio National, in Sydney. |
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| LISTEN TO THE HEROES OF ISRAEL |
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John Pilger reminds us of the struggle by an extraordinary few in Israel against the repression and lawlessness of the occupation of Palestine. They are the inspiration to break the loud silence in the Jewish diaspora. |
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| FOR ISRAEL, A RECKONING |
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John Pilger describes the growing boycott, disinvestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine. Based on the anti-apartheid campaign that helped bring down the racist regime in South Africa, BDS is becoming a catch-cry for freedom in countries whose governments continue to ignore the Palestinians' struggle against another form of apartheid and which Nelson Mandela has described as "the greatest moral issue of our time". |
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| BREAKING THE AUSTRALIAN SILENCE |
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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". |
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| RETURN TO A SECRET COUNTRY |
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John Pilger marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of A Secret Country, his best-selling history of Australia, with a description of Aboriginal Australia and its relationship with white authority following Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to the "stolen generations" last year. |
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| FREE THE FORGOTTEN BIRD OF PARADISE |
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John Pilger describes the wholesale corporate takeover of the natural resources of West Papua, known as the "forgotten bird of paradise" by its impoverished indigenous people. A mountain of copper and gold, forests and fisheries, oil and gas: the "acquisition" of untold riches, sanctioned by the Suharto tyranny, was unique and remains a metaphor for "globalisation". |
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| FOR MANY BRITONS, THE PARTY GAME IS OVER |
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John Pilger analyses the impact of 'Blair's wars' on the Labour Party and its historic convergence with the Tories into a single ideology state. |
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| JOHN PILGER WINS 2009 SYDNEY PEACE PRIZE |
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John Pilger has been awarded the Sydney Peace Prize, Australia's recognition of outstanding work for human rights and "peace with justice".
Read the full citation. |
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| POWER, ILLUSION & AMERICA'S LAST TABOO |
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On 4 July, John Pilger spoke at Socialism 2009 in San Francisco. Click here for the text of his address, and here to watch it. |
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| MURDOCH: A CULTURAL CHERNOBYL |
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John Pilger describes "an iceberg of relentless inhumanity" beneath the Guardian's revelations about illegal phone tapping at Murdoch's Sunday tabloid and the impact of his empire in Britain and all over the world. |
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| BACK TO THE POINT OF DEPARTURE |
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John Pilger reflects on the idea of a journey, and wonders, like TS Eliot, if the point of travelling is also to find out where you came from. However, the unsuspected and tragic can change everything. |
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| DISTANT VOICES, DESPERATE LIVES |
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John Pilger describes the catastrophe facing the Tamil people of Sri Lanka, whose distant voices have appealed to the world for almost as long as the Palestinians. |
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| OBAMA'S 100 DAYS - THE MAD MEN DID WELL |
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John Pilger describes the power of advertising - from the effects of smoking to politics - as he reaches behind the facade of of the first 100 days President Barack Obama. |
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| THE REDS DOWN UNDER ARE REVOLTING |
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John Pilger describes a personal loss as the quality of Australia's once distinguished wine declines - a lesson for others as the greed of "cash cropping" threatens a nation's food supply. |
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| FAKE FAITH & EPIC CRIMES |
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John Pilger describes a worldwide movement that is 'challenging the once-sacrosanct notion that imperial politicians can destroy countless lives and retain an immunity from justice'. In Tony Blair's case, justice inches closer. |
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| WAR COMES HOME TO BRITAIN |
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John Pilger describes the basic freedoms being lost in Britain as the "national security state", imported from the United States by New Labour, takes effect. |
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| CAMBODIA'S MISSING ACCUSED |
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In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger calls on his long experience with Cambodia's struggles in lamenting missing faces in the dock at the UN-backed trial of crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge period. Where are Pol Pot's accomplices and collaborators in the West? |
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| HOLLYWOOD'S NEW CENSORS |
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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'. |
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| THE POLITICS OF BOLLOCKS |
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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. |
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| COME ON DOWN FOR YOUR FREEDOM MEDALS |
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John Pilger writes that "as deserving as Tony Blair is of his George W. Bush Freedom Medal, others cry out for a place in his company". Following Israel's assault on Gaza, he offers two additional nominees. |
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| HOLOCAUST DENIED: THE LYING SILENCE OF THOSE WHO KNOW |
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John Pilger calls on 40 years of reporting the Middle East to describe the 'why' of Israel's bloody onslaught on the besieged people of Gaza - an attack that has little to do with Hamas or Israel's right to exist. |
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