John Pilger looks back on the US presidential campaigns he has reported and draws parallels with the current ‘ritual danse macabre’ that covers for democracy and the veiled propaganda that accompanies it.
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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
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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
himself and his political twin, Tony Blair.
