In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger quotes from a letter received from a British army officer serving in Iraq and sent to the BBC. The officer calls the war unwinnable and wrong, and appeals to the media not to swallow “the office/White House line”. For the first time, journalists are now being scrutinised by the soldiers whose war they report.
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In an article for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how Gaza in Palestine has come to symbolise the imposition of great power on the powerless, in the Middle East and all over the world, and how a vocabulary of double standard is employ…
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In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger recalls the
night Robert Kennedy was shot in his presence and the myths that
followed his untimely death. Having elevated Kennedy to be one of his
heroes, Prime Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown describes him as the
pinnacle of “morality” – when this myth really tells us about Brown
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In a cover piece for the New Statesman, John Pilger evokes the
memory of Germans ‘looking from the side’ at Bergen-Belsen to describe
the challenge facing us in the West as the Bush/Blair ‘long war’ becomes
‘perhaps the greatest crisis of modern times’.
