Break the silence: a world war is beckoning
John Pilger examines the drift to a wider war in Ukraine and the Orwellian propaganda that masks the dangers.
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The Strangelove effect - or how we are hoodwinked into accepting a new world war
John Pilger describes the enduring effect of Stanley Kubrick's classic film, 'Dr. Strangelove' and its warning today of a new cold war, and a world war.
South Africa: 20 years of apartheid by another name
In an article for the Sunday Times in Johannesburg, marking the 20th anniversary of South Africa's first democratic election, John Pilger describes how secret deals ensured that apartheid lived on.
The forgotten coup - and how the godfather rules from Canberra to Kiev
John Pilger describes how the upheaval in the Ukraine is no different, in principle, from other US-engineered coups, including the least known of all - in Australia.
'Good' and 'bad' war - and the struggle of memory against forgetting
John Pilger describes how historical memory and investigation have rescued a 'forgotten' war with significance for us all.
The accessories to war crimes are those paid to keep the record straight
John Pilger describes his experience with the BBC's top-rating Today programme and how the truth about Iraq had to be 'countered'.
In India, a spectre for us all, and a resistance coming
John Pilger reports from India on the illusions of an economic experiment as brutal as Pinochet's Chile, and a resistance building.
Mandela is gone, but apartheid is alive and well in Australia
In the late 1960s, I was given an usual assignment by the London Daily Mirror's editor in chief, Hugh Cudlipp. I was to return to my homeland, Australia, and "discover what lies behind the sunny face".
The prison that is Bangladesh
Once Moudud Ahmed defended the country's independence leader, but now he is sick and in jail as the prime minister cracks down on opposition ahead of January's national elections.
Discovering the power of people’s history – and why it is feared today
John Pilger recalls his arrival in England and his reporting of an entirely different nation from that around London with its all-for-one-and-one-for-all.