The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Iraq has been successfully demonized as if everybody who lives there is Saddam Hussein. In the build-up to this attack on Iraq, journalists have almost universally excluded the prospect of civilian deaths, the numbers of people who would die, because… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'official truth'. They simply cipher and transmit lies.… — John Pilger Copy Share
Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations. — John Pilger Copy Share
In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or… — John Pilger Copy Share
Certainly, until there is justice for the Palestinians, there will never be any kind of stability in the Middle East. — John Pilger Copy Share
Bill Clinton persuaded some people that he was really a civilized character and his Administration had the best interests of humanity at heart. These… — John Pilger Copy Share
Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations. They… — John Pilger Copy Share
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance. — John Pilger Copy Share
Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self again. I… — John Pilger Copy Share
Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a… — John Pilger Copy Share
The Mirror has become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly… — John Pilger Copy Share
In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week.… — John Pilger Copy Share
Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war. — John Pilger Copy Share
In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing… — John Pilger Copy Share
Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. — John Pilger Copy Share
