In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger looks
forward to the arrival of Bill Clinton in London where an “audience”
with him will cost up to £799 a head. In examining Clinton’s liberal
credentials and comparing them to George W. Bush’s record, Pilger
illuminates what Hillary Clinton might offer America and the world as
the first female president.
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In his latest article for the New Statesman, John Pilger applies to current events Orwell’s description in ‘1984’ of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinean cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how “we” are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.
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In his latest column 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.
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In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has
become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its
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Modern fictional cinema rarely seems to break political silences. The very fine Motorcycle Diaries was a generation too late. In this country, where Hollywood sets the liberal boundaries, the work of Ken Loach and a few others is an honourable…