Addressing a London meeting, ‘Freedom Writ Large’, organised by PEN and the Writers Network of Burma, John Pilger pays tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi and the writers of Burma, ‘the bravest of the brave’, and describes the hypocrisy of Western leaders who claim to back their struggle for freedom.
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John Pilger marks the European release of Michael Moore’s latest
film, Sicko, with an examination of why the documentary film-maker
exerts such influence, with fans and enemies alike. “In societies ruled
by an invisible government of media,” he writes, “no one has broken
through like Moore, who breaks every rule by reporting from the ground
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In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger recalls his last conversation with Aung San Suu Kyi, under premanent house arrest in Rangoon. Filmed secretly by Pilger and David Munro, the legitimate leader of the Burmese people provid…
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In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes
the parallel worlds of the great ‘unmentionable’, class, in modern
Britain: in the streets and in the media. -
In a column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes his first encounter with a Palestinian refugee camp and what Nelson Mandela has called “the greatest moral issue of our age” – justice for the Palestinians. ‘Something has changed’, he writes, referring to the world view of sanctions and a boycott against Israel.
