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  1. John Pilger on the coming war. Speak up. Now.

    Prevention of Nuclear War, the number killed in America's 鈥war on terror鈥 was 'at least' 1.3 ... women and children might be alive today; millions might not have fled their homes; the sectarian war ... 鈥渟pecial operations鈥 as no other president had done since the first Cold War. According to a Council on ...

  2. John Pilger: The Great Game of smashing countries

    Film & theatre History Imperialism & war Middle East Women John Pilger War on Afghanistan ... (2001鈥2021) Taliban People鈥檚 Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) Women's rights As a tsunami of ... of visionary reforms that included equal rights for women and minorities. Political prisoners were ...

  3. John Pilger: The war on Venezuela is built on lies

    laugh, address an urban land council on subjects ranging from homelessness to illegal war. That day, they ... was "too difficult" to be on two marches in one day. A war has been declared on Venezuela, ... seemed from a nearby banyan, made a long, critical speech on the subject of irrigation; Chavez took ...

  4. John Pilger on Ken Burn's 'Vietnam War': The killing of history

    "events" of American television, The Vietnam War, has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken ... Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression and the ... United Nations on 19 September- a body established to spare humanity the "scourge of war"- he ...

  5. John Pilger: The most lethal virus is not COVID-19. It is war

    a number of wars. I have seen the remains of children and women and the elderly bombed and burned to death: ... Imperialism & war John Pilger military spending Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Britain鈥檚 Armed ... names of more than 16,000 British servicemen and women are listed. The literature says they 鈥渄ied in ...

  6. Inside the invisible government: John Pilger on war, propaganda and the US presidential race

    operating on all cylinders. Today, the greatest build-up of American-led forces since World War Two is under ... Economy Imperialism & war Elections John Pilger Hillary Clinton Donald Trump The American ... for women by smoking in the New York Easter Parade- behaviour then considered outlandish. One ...

  7. John Pilger on the coming war with China

    Imperialism & war John Pilger When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps ... a political embarrassment. I have spent two years making a documentary film,聽 The Coming War on China, 聽in ... strategist, Herman Kahn 鈥 鈥渢hinking the unthinkable鈥. Kahn鈥檚 book,聽 On Thermonuclear War,聽 elaborated a plan ...

  8. John Pilger: The secret country again wages war on its own people

    Imperialism & war History Democracy Indigenous John Pilger Australia has again declared war on ... its Indigenous people, reminiscent of the brutality that brought universal condemnation on apartheid ... Vulnerable populations, already denied the basic services most Australians take for granted, are on notice of ...

  9. John Pilger on Sri Lanka's brutal war: Distant voices, desperate lives

    a declaration of war on the Tamils. The new law meant that Tamils almost disappeared from the civil service by ... affirm you are on the right side of history, regardless of the fact that your government has one of the ... perpetrated their own atrocities. But they are the product, not the cause, of an injustice and a war that long ...

  10. John Pilger: The world war on democracy

    the embodiment of people鈥檚 resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s ... the hold on a cargo of fertiliser: bird shit. The weather was rough; everyone was ill; two women ... war on democracy. The heaviest bombing of Iraq and Afghanistan was launched from its vast airstrips, ...

  11. John Pilger: The hidden history of women in Australia who rose up

    Victorian property and propriety. In fact, Mary was the youngest member of a gang of wild women, mostly ... sickness and despair. I know what she looked like on arrival because, some years ago, I discovered an ... nothing to sleep on, only boards and stone and straw, and filthy wool full of ticks and spiders. All the ...

  12. John Pilger: Why wars are not reported honestly

    Imperialism & war Democracy John Pilger Wikileaks War on Afghanistan (2001鈥2021) In the US ... Following Vietnam, 鈥渆mbedding鈥 journalists became central to war policy on both sides of the Atlantic. With ... Army manual on counterinsurgency, the American commander General David Petraeus describes Afghanistan ...

  13. John Pilger: A world war has begun-- break the silence

    magazine called Women's Health. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the ... Imperialism & war Anti-racism Indigenous International solidarity Democracy Economy Elections ... radiation. My shoes registered "unsafe" on a Geiger counter. Standing on the beach, I watched the ...

  14. John Pilger: Silencing America as it prepares for war

    attached to actual policy. It isn't." On Obama's watch, a second Cold War is under way. The ... since World War II has not happened. On May 11, Romania went "live" with a NATO "missile ... to say on the drumbeat of threats to China and the accelerating risk of nuclear war. He agrees that ...

  15. John Pilger: Media lies fuel war drive

    Imperialism & war Media John Pilger On 22 May 2007, the British Guardian 's front page ... influence a vote in the US Congress. Based entirely on briefings by anonymous US officials, Tisdall's ... "exclusive" rippled with lurid tales of Iran's "murder cells" and "daily acts of war ...

  16. John Pilger: New threats of war and fascism

    2001. Operation Cyclone became the 鈥war on terror鈥, in which countless men, women and children would ... 鈥渉umanitarian war鈥 against Libya drew on a model close to western liberal hearts, especially in the media. In ... called for 鈥渇ull scale war鈥 with nuclear-armed Russia. On February 21, US Senator James Inhofe, ...

  17. John Pilger: US war crimes from Vietnam to Obama

    Imperialism & war John Pilger Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two ... children who bore witness to the longest war of the 20th century. Their terrible deformities were familiar. ... sprayed a defoliant herbicide on vegetation and villages to deny "cover to the enemy". This was ...

  18. John Pilger: The celebration and justification of war

    of them. On cue, this was followed by an item that a war memorial in Sydney had been 鈥渄efaced by men ... Imperialism & war John Pilger British elections Staring at the vast military history section ... illicit devotion to the cult of organised killing. There was nothing I recognised from reporting war ...

  19. John Pilger: Provoking nuclear war by media

    plan an attack on Syria. All have belligerent cold war histories; the former CIA director, Leon ... anniversary of the Clinton welfare 鈥渞eform鈥 that launched a war on African-Americans). As for Obama: while ... Imperialism & war International solidarity Democracy Economy John Pilger The exoneration of ...

  20. John Pilger: Media complicit in war crimes

    Imperialism & war Media John Pilger The BBC's Today program is enjoying high ratings, and ... a historian rarely heard on the BBC, who chronicles the crimes of the British state; lawyer Phil Shiner and ... Faustian pacts that contrived a world war a century ago resonate today across the Middle East and Asia; ...

  21. John Pilger: Why we must prosecute war criminals

    Imperialism & war Democracy John Pilger The dust in Iraq rolls down the long roads that are ... Ali told me that in 1999, and today his warning is irrefutable. 鈥淏efore the Gulf war,鈥 he said, 鈥渨e ... Many had neuroplastoma. 鈥淏efore the war, we saw only one case of this unusual tumour in two years,鈥 she ...

  22. John Pilger: Eyewitness to the agony of Julian Assange

    deaths of 12 million men, women and children in the 鈥war on terror鈥 鈥 most of it behind a fa莽ade of ... investigative journalist Nicky Hager, who worked with Assange on the Afghanistan and Iraq war leaks, described ... a world war if we allow it. Little of this menace is reflected in the media. WikiLeaks, on the other hand, ...

  23. John Pilger: Gagging the facts on Trump and Clinton

    . On the contrary, like all American presidents, he was pro-war. He had voted for George W. Bush's ... "cool" (The Guardian). On March 23, my article, A World War has Begun: Break the Silence, was published ... Imperialism & war Elections Democracy Media John Pilger Donald Trump Hillary Clinton At ...

  24. John Pilger: From Pol Pot to ISIS 鈥 鈥楢nything that flies on everything that moves鈥

    Roland Dumas revealed that 鈥渢wo years before the Arab spring鈥, he was told in London that a war on Syria ... Imperialism & war History John Pilger In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders ... for a 鈥渕assive鈥 bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said: 鈥淎nything that flies on everything ...

  25. The forgotten coup against 'The Most Loyal Ally'

    Democracy Imperialism & war John Pilger Whitlam government and dismissal The Australian High ... John Kerr, can now be released by the National Archives. On November 11, 1975, Kerr infamously sacked ... war plans. In Donald Trump's current provocations of China, the US bases in Australia are ...

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