John Pilger Quotes

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• In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of…
• Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of…
• Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I…
• We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.
• If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed…
• In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In…
• In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or brown-skinned…
• This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are…
• I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.
• More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and…
• Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.
• When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no…
• I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with…
• The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
• Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.
• Official truths are often powerful illusions.
• Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
• We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening,…
• It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround…
• The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every…

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