No tears, no remorse for the fallen of Iraq
14 Nov 2007
In the New Statesman, John Pilger looks back on Remembrance Day - Veterans Day in the US - and describes the presence of hypocrisy as the bowed heads of the establishment mourned none of the million dead of Iraq and the destruction of their society.

The London bombs also belong to the new Prime Minister
5 Jul 2007
In an article for the New Statesman, John Pilger breaks the taboo of the latest 'potential' bombs found in London. They are prime minister Gordon Brown's bomb, too, the 'inevitable consequence of the lawless invasion of Iraq' which Brown backed and whose death toll now equals that of the Rwanda genocide.

The British Army rebels against propoganda
6 Jun 2007
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.

Setting the limits of invasion journalism
7 Dec 2006
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger reports an unprecedented study by three UK universities which found that, contrary to myth, 80 per cent of the media followed "the government line" on Iraq and only 12 per cent challenged it. He analyses the subtleties and insidious nature of censorship in free societies and asks why this is neglected by many media colleges.

Now let's charge Saddam's accomplices
9 Nov 2006
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger wonders why Saddam should be alone in the dock. Surely, those who aided and abetted his crimes, and were accomplices in other great crimes committed against the Iraqi people, should be prosecuted, too.

Busy fondling their self-esteem
12 Oct 2006
As the news reveals a study that puts civilian deaths in Iraq at 655,000, John Pilger recalls the words of a song by the great Chilean balladeer, Victor Jara, to describe those who see themselves as rational and liberal are, in fact, complicit in an unrecognised crime.

The real threat we face in Britain is Blair
17 Aug 2006
John Pilger writes about the alleged plot to blow up airliners flying from London and says that "unimaginable mass murder" has already taken place - in Iraq - and that the real threat the British face is in Downing Street.

Empire and Israel
27 Jul 2006
The National Museum of American History is part of the celebrated Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Surrounded by mock Graeco-Roman edifices with their soaring Corinthian columns, rampant eagles and chiselled profundities, it is at the centre of Empire, though the word itself is engraved nowhere. This is understandable, as the likes of Hitler and Mussolini were proud imperialists, too: on a "great mission to rid the world of evil", to borrow from President Bush.

In Palestine and Iraq: a war on children
15 Jun 2006
In a cover piece for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how the US and Israel have finally resolved the problem of the Palestinians, who voted for the "wrong" government. They are to starve them while missiles are fired at their homes and picnickers on a beach.

Return of the Death Squads - Iraq's hidden news
4 May 2006
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.

The real first casualty of war
24 Apr 2006
Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.

The quiet death of democracy
13 Apr 2006
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how a bill passing through the British parliament will undermine centuries-old concepts of freedom and human rights - democracy itself.

The war lovers
23 Mar 2006
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.

Iran: the next war
10 Feb 2006
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.

The death of freedom
9 Jan 2006
The rights of ordinary people to speak out against an unjust war and atrocities unleashed in their name are being crushed. Fascism is at the door. Who else, asks John Pilger, will fight it?

If you want to know the truth about Iraq, join the millions who have given up on the silences of the mainstream media
28 Nov 2005
The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge". The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the conventional sources of news and information and to the world wide web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power.

Applauding a military refusenik
31 Oct 2005
An RAF officer is about to be tried before a military court for refusing to return to Iraq because the war is illegal.

We need to be told
17 Oct 2005
When journalists report propaganda instead of the truth, the consequences can be catastrophic - as one largely forgotten instance demonstrates.

Blame Basra on the British
3 Oct 2005
Is there to be no honest accounting for the events in Basra? Do we simply accept John Reid's customary arrogance?

Behind America's facade
19 Sep 2005
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.

Blair's bombs
25 Jul 2005
The senseless repercussions of interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine demand that we renew our anger at our leaders. Our troops must come home. We owe it to all those who died in London on 7 July.

The ghost at Gleneagles
11 Jul 2005
In the orgy of summit coverage something has been overlooked: the two men at the heart of it, telling us how the world should be run, are the men responsible for Fallujah and Abu Ghraib.

Blair's forgotten victims
25 Apr 2005
By voting for Blair, you will walk over the corpses of at least 100,000 people, most of them innocent, slaughtered in defiance of international law.

Be proud of what you've achieved
21 Mar 2005
Speaking in Sydney, Australia, at a rally to commemorate the second anniversary of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, John Pilger said that his compatriots who opposed the invasion should be proud of their achievements and those of millions like them.

Kebabing the Tonier-than-thou club
7 Mar 2005
Those who regard themselves as commissars of the respectable, moral, liberal class do not convey to us the enormity of what happened in Iraq. Their silence is quite disgusting.

Reminders of Kosovo
13 Dec 2004
Kosovo - the site of a genocide that never was - is now a violent "free market" in drugs and prostitution. What does this tell us about the likely outcome of the Iraq war?

Iraq: the unthinkable becomes normal
15 Nov 2004
Mainstream media speak as if Fallujah were populated only by foreign "insurgents". In fact, women and children are being slaughtered in our name.

Americanism threatens war on the world
1 Nov 2004
"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.

Why we ignored Iraq in the 1990s
4 Oct 2004
Even before the 2003 war, we were attacking Iraqi civilians with our inhumane economic sanctions. Yet where were the media protesting against this injustice?

Another fake
31 May 2004
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?
 
Gilligan was an exception
9 Feb 2004
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".

Another Hutton whitewash?
5 Feb 2004
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.

American terrorist
12 Jan 2004
Forget Hutton. He will not reveal what the US and UK authorities really don't want you to know: that radiation illnesses caused by uranium weapons are now common in Iraq.

Opposition views are absent at Dyke's BBC
8 Dec 2003
When Greg Dyke attacked American television's cheerleading coverage of Iraq, how did he manage to keep a straight face? The BBC gave even less voice to opposition views.

We know when Bush is lying - his lips move
24 Nov 2003
Blair and Straw dare to suggest that the millions who have rumbled the Bush gang are simply being "fashionably anti-American" - another desperate act by desperate men.

Colin Powell said Iraq was not a threat
22 Sep 2003
Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger reveals that both US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Bush's closest adviser Condaleeza Rice said, in 2001, that Saddam Hussein was effectively disarmed and no threat - putting the lie to their own propaganda.

Put Blair in the dock
15 Sep 2003
While we are allowed to read internal e-mails in Whitehall, we can't see the traffic between Blair and Bush that would reveal the biggest lie of all.

Needed - an inquiry into a slaughter
24 Aug 2003
Writing in the Independent on Sunday, John Pilger says that, while the Hutton inquiry into the death of David Kelly has revealed more evidence of the deception behind the attack on Iraq, a full public inquiry into why Britain went to war is now needed.

Who are the extremists?
22 Aug 2003
Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger identifies the root cause of the bloody bombing of the UN compound in Baghdad, which Washington and London have blamed this on 'extremists from outside'.

War on truth
4 Aug 2003
The White House sets the tone and the media echo a line that celebrates the victimhood of the invader and the evil of the Iraqis. And then London takes its cue.

Bush's Vietnam
23 Jun 2003
Once more, we hear that America is being "sucked into a quagmire". The rapacious adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan are going badly wrong.

The catalogue of Tony Blair's deceptions are now being revealed by the day
3 Jun 2003
In his latest article for the Daily Mirror, John Pilger argues that the "high crime" of the invasion of Iraq that "will not melt away" and says the catalogue of Tony Blair's deceptions are now being revealed by the day, unravelling any credibility left.

Britain supports terrorism
26 May 2003
The official version is that Britain's foreign policy is basically benevolent: that it promotes democracy, peace and human rights. The truth is that Britain supports terrorism.

Journalism is rotting away
28 Apr 2003
Something deeply corrupt is consuming journalism. A war so one-sided it was hardly a war was reported like a Formula One race, as the teams sped to the chequered flag in Baghdad.

The saving of one little boy must not be a cover for the crime of this war
22 Apr 2003
The unthinkable is becoming normal. The saving of one little boy must not be a cover for the crime of this war and we should not forget its true horror.

A crime against humanity
14 Apr 2003
They have blown off the limbs of women and the scalps of children. Their victims overwhelm the morgues and flood into hospitals that lack even aspirin.

We now glimpse the forbidden truths of the invasion of Iraq
6 Apr 2003
A man cuddles the body of his infant daughter; her blood drenches them. A woman in black pursues a tank, her arms outstretched; all seven in her family are dead. An American Marine murders a woman because she happens to be standing next to a man in a uniform. "I'm sorry,'' he says, "but the chick got in the way.''

"We dropped a few civilians", said Sgt Eric Schrumpf of the US Marines
5 Apr 2003
"We had a great day," said Sgt Eric Schrumpf of the US Marines last Saturday. "We killed a lot of people."

What now?
17 Mar 2003
Civil disobedience is the sole path left for those who cannot support the Bush-Blair pact of aggression. Only then will politicians on both sides of the Atlantic be forced to recognise the folly of their ways.

Blair ignores Sun's smear of British journalist hanged by Saddam
3 March 2003
When Saddam hanged a British journalist in 1990, MI5 had the journalist smeared in the Sun, and the Mail agreed he was a spy. What did Blair say? John Pilger can find nothing.

As the world protests against war, we hear again the lies of old
17 Feb 2003
"A painful decision," say the supporters of an invasion. But it is not they who will feel the pain: it will be the Iraqi infants writhing in the dust when the cluster bombs fall.

The Observer: the great betrayal
3 Feb 2003
In its leaders supporting the war in Iraq, the Observer proves that it has truly buried its great liberal editor David Astor, and his principled, "freethinking" legacy.

The "secret" war which has seen a 300 per cent increase in bombing raids on Iraq
20 Dec 2002
The American and British attack on Iraq has already begun. While the Blair government continues to claim in Parliament that "no final decision has been taken", Royal Air Force and US fighter bombers have secretly changed tactics and escalated their "patrols" over Iraq to an all-out assault on both military and civilian targets.

The myths and propaganda used to 'justify' war against Saddam aim only to distract attention from Bush and Blair's real prize: Iraq's rich reserves of oil
3 Dec 2002
On November 7, the day before the United Nations Security Council voted on a resolution that made an American and British attack on Iraq more than likely, Downing Street began issuing warnings of imminent terrorist threats against the United Kingdom.

Today, true democracy will demonstrate its resilience on the streets of London
28 Sep 2002
In the week that Parliament was manipulated by the Government and denied a proper vote on whether Britain should join the Bush gang in its assault on Iraq, many thousands of people will converge on London in what is expected to be the greatest demonstration against war for a generation.

The Blair government continues to insist that Iraq poses a threat to the Middle East, despite clear evidence to the contrary
27 Aug 2002
The Blair government was told in January by the Americans that there was no justification for attacking Iraq in the "war on terrorism" and that their main aim was getting rid of Saddam Hussein who stood in the way of the West's control of Middle Eastern oil wealth.

How dare George Bush preach peace to Israel when he's meeting Blair to plan war on Iraq
5 Apr 2002
George W Bush yesterday called on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian cities occupied by its forces during the last week.He excused Israel's violence, but lectured the Palestinians and the rest of the Middle East on the need for restraint and a lasting peace. "The storms of violence cannot go on," said Bush. "Enough is enough."

Should we go to war against these children?
25 Mar 2002
A compliant press is preparing the ground for an all-out attack on Iraq. It never mentions the victims: the young, the old and the vulnerable.

British and American pilots are blowing the cover
19 Mar 2001
Britain and America's pilots are blowing the cover on our so-called 'humanitarian' no-fly zone.

Iraq: the great cover-up
19 Jan 2001
On the eve of an election campaign, the Blair government is attempting,with mounting desperation, to suppress a scandal potentially greater than the arms-to-Iraq cover-up. This is the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps many more, caused by decisions taken in Whitehall and Washington.

The Peter Hains beware
4 Jan 2001
While his more senior colleagues in Whitehall and Washington understandably fall silent on the mounting deaths in Iraq, the Foreign Office minister Peter Hain has become a strangely aggressive voice in promoting the failed and lethal embargo.
 
Labour claims its actions are lawful while it bombs Iraq, strarves its people and sells arms to corrupt states
7 Aug 2000
"All governments are liars," wrote the great American muckraker I F Stone, "and nothing they say should be believed." He exaggerated, although not by much. 
 
In the Gulf war, every last nail was accounted for, but the Iraqi dead went untallied. At last their story is being told
26 Jun 2000
The great American reporter Seymour Hersh is at war with the American military over his j'accuse in the New Yorker that a much-lauded general, now a member of President Clinton's cabinet, ordered his troops to fire on retreating Iraqis on the eve of the Gulf war ceasefire in 1991.
 
Turkey, which has killed 30,000 Kurds, has now invaded northern Iraq
15 May 2000
This month, two extraordinary men came to London and spoke about a silent holocaust, and not a word of what they said was reported.
 
Robin Cook's lies are worthy of David Irving, while the government perpetrates crimes against humanity
1 May 2000
The Foreign Office continues to send out its standard dissembling letter on Iraq. Dozens of copies have been forwarded to me by members of the public bemused or angered by the contempt in which they are clearly held by the civil servants responsible.

Try as he might, Robin Cook cannot give credence to his vast lies
3 Apr 2000
The facts of Iraq's epic suffering are now unassailable. The latest report by Unicef says that half a million young children have died in eight years of economic sanctions. That represents almost 200 deaths every day.

Iraq: yet again, they are lying to us
20 Mar 2000
The Foreign Office repeatedly hides the truth from the public: on Cambodia, on East Timor, on arms sales and now on sanctions.

Sanctions on Iraq kill 200 children every day; bombing raids have cost the taxpayer £60 million
6 Mar 2000
Last August, the defence minister John Spellar described the no-fly zones over Iraq as "international zones, designed by the international community". This is false.
 
Squeezed to death
4 Mar 2000
Wherever you go in Iraq's southern city of Basra, there is dust. It gets in your eyes and nose and throat. It swirls in school playgrounds and consumes children kicking a plastic ball. "It carries death," said Dr Jawad Al-Ali, a cancer specialist and member of Britain's Royal College of Physicians. "Our own studies indicate that more than 40 per cent of the population in this area will get cancer: in five years' time? 
 
As British bombs rain down daily on Iraq, the Blair intelligentsia worries about Martin Amis turning 50
6 Sep 1999
Following the "moral crusade" in the Balkans, there were calls for heretics to apologise. It was reminiscent of the hysteria surrounding the death of Diana Spencer and, like the froth on a cappuccino, blew away once reality was restored. The crusaders have now fallen silent, many realising they were gulled and lied to.

In Baghdad, the babies are dying: there's no anaesthetic, no antibiotics, no clean water, and sometimes no breast milk
3 May 1999
On 26 March the New Statesman published a letter by Derek Fatchett, the Foreign Office minister, objecting to my suggestion that the enforced suffering of the people of Iraq by the US and British governments was a crime comparable with those of General Pinochet or General Suharto or Henry Kissinger.
 
Blair shed his tears for Diana. Does he have any for the 6,000 children being killed by the west in Iraq each month?
19 Mar 1999
Whether or not General Pinochet is sent for trial, the question looms: who is next? Henry Kissinger and George Bush come to mind. Their terrorism is documented from Chile to South-east Asia. The reluctance of the US administration to support the prosecution of Pinochet, America's man, is understandable; in many ways, he was only taking orders.

Whatever the Defence Secretary says, the killing of 82 Iraqi civilians is a crime, which has achieved nothing
22 Jan 1999
The New Statesman last week published a letter from the Defence Secretary, George Robertson, who took exception to my description of his government's recent actions in Iraq as murder.

The press is obsessed with petty vendettas while British ministers continue to support a silent holocaust
8 Jan 1999
There was a great deal of publicity and empathy last week for the four tourists, two of them Britons, murdered in Yemen. There has been nothing for the 68 Iraqi civilians murdered by the American and British governments shortly before Christmas.