John Pilger

The joining of hands across America's illusory political divide has a long history. The native Americans were slaughtered, the Philippines laid to waste and Cuba and much of Latin America brought to heel with "bi-partisan" backing.

Aborigines comprise less than three per cent of the Australian population, and 60 per cent of the inmates of the country's prisons; and once inside, many die by their own hand, and some are beaten to death.

From Reagan To Clinton, The Homage Continues.

The D-Day anniversary and the election campaign have been a rich time for the kind of propaganda that marks the limits of mainstream liberal debate in Britain.

Irak işgaliyle Vietnam işgalini birleştiren, daha önceleri dile getirilmeyen unsurları bizler yeni yeni teşhis etmeye başladık. Nerede, ne zaman olursa olsun,bu unsurlar bütün sömürgeci işgallerin ortak noktasıdır. Bu, emperyalizmin özüdür ve bizim sözlüklerimizde yerini almaya henüz başlamıştır.

Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger recalls the news coverage of the war in Vietnam and how American atrocities and torture were not considered newsworthy. The same was true of the brutality of British colonial adventures. 'In Iraq', he writes, 'nothing has changed'.

Iraklıların en şahsi eşyalarını haraç mezat satmaya geldikleri o hüzünlü akşam pazarlarının birinde, pazara iki bebeği ile gelen bir kadına rastladım. Birkaç kuruşa sattığı bebek arabasına bakıyordu...

Invaders have Ripped Up the Fabric of a Nation that Survived Saddam Hussein. This is a War of Liberation and We Are the Enemy

With the most lethal weapons billions of dollars can buy, and the threats of their cowboy generals and the panic-stricken brutality of their footsoldiers, more than 120,000 foreign invaders - terrorists by any understanding of that term - have ripped up the fabric of a nation that survived the years

The invasion of Iraq, now in its second year, was "organised with lies", says the new Spanish prime minister. Does anyone doubt this any more?

The current threat of attacks in countries whose governments have close alliances with Washington is the latest stage in a long struggle against the empires of the west, their rapacious crusades and domination.

Now, I think the situation in Iraq is so dire that unless the United States is defeated there that we're likely to see an attack on Iran, we're likely to see an attack on North Korea and all the way down the road it could be even an attack on China within a decade, so I think what happens in Iraq no

Look Closely And The Danger Is The Same

Shortly after the collapse of the Iraqi regime, the BBC's Today programme sent Andrew Gilligan to Baghdad. Gilligan's reports were unlike anything the BBC had broadcast.

I am a reporter, who values bearing witness. That is to say, I place paramount importance in the evidence of what I see, and hear, and sense to be the truth, or as close to the truth as possible.

Forgot Hutton. He will not reveal what the US and UK authorities really don't want you to know: that radiation illnesses caused by uranium weapons are now common in Iraq.

Shortly before the disastrous Bush visit to Britain, Tony Blair was at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. It was an unusual glimpse of a state killer whose effete respectability has gone.

Now that the war is over, how does Tony Blair's "dossier" on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program hold up to scrutiny?

"Büyük savaşların hazırlığı sürerken," demişti Bertolt Brecht, "Kimse, 'karanlık günlerdi' demeyecek. Denecek olan şudur: Şairleri neden suskundu?" 20. yüzyılın büyük yazarları için sanat politikadan ayrılamazdı.

For the great writers of the 20th century, art could not be separated from politics. Today, there is a disturbing silence on the dark matters that should command our attention.

Shame and silence reached a sort of crescendo during the recent conference of the Labour Party.

İki yıl önce başlatılan bombardımanla "kurtarılan" ülkenin bugünkü durumu: CIA'nin para ve silah dağıttığı savaş ağaları giderek güçleniyor, Hazar petrolleri peşindeki Bush ekibinin desteklediği Taliban'la çatışmalar hiç bitmedi, kadınlar önceki bağnaz dönemi bile arar halde. O halde amaç neydi?

An investigation of files and archive film for my TV documentary Breaking The Silence, together with interviews with former intelligence officers and senior Bush officials have revealed that Bush and Blair knew all along that Saddam Hussein was effectively disarmed.

Thanks to the Americans, effective control of Afghanistan has been ceded to most of the same mafiosi and their private armies, who rule by fear, extortion and monopolising the opium poppy trade that supplies Britain with 90% of its street heroin.

Credible research shows that up to 10,000 civilians were killed in the attack on Iraq, together with perhaps 30,000 Iraqi soldiers, many of them teenage conscripts. A slaughter. These people were killed by weapons designed to reduce human beings to charcoal or to shred them.

August marks another anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan, the ultimate act of terrorism in which 231,920 people have now died, the latest, the children of 1945, from a plague of cancers.

In Baghdad, the rise and folly of rapacious imperial power is commemorated in a forgotten cemetery called the North Gate.

Unless we apply the lesson "all governments are liars" to our own leaders, British fighter jets and chemical weapons technology will continue to wreck lives all over the world.

Readers will remember the patriotic calls to "support the troops" regardless of one's misgivings about the war. Why a non-conscripted force deserved our "support" in its illegal and craven actions against a weak and stricken nation was never explained by any politician, newspaper or broadcaster.

On 8 April, newspapers around the world carried a despatch from a Reuters correspondent, "embedded" with the US army, about the murder of a ten-year-old Iraqi boy. An American private had "unloaded machine-gun fire and the boy . .