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John Pilger describes the 'casual abduction' of Bolivian President Evo Morales as a metaphor the gangsterism that now dominates international affairs and urges that a taboo is broken.

John Pilger recalls the dawn of the "PR age" and how whistleblowing reveals what Daniel Ellsberg calls "that abyss".

John Pilger examines the world according to a feminist 'media club' and asks why Europe's raging class war seems not to be a priority.

In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger describes a "top secret" report by the World Health Organisation that says birth defects are appearing across Iraqi society at unprecedented "crisis levels" following the widespread use of depleted uranium and toxic heavy metals in the Anglo-American invasion and occupation.

John Pilger returns to where he began his career in journalism and argues that Australia, his homeland, provides a model of media that was once free and independent and is no more.

John Pilger describes reporting Margaret Thatcher's many wars, at home and abroad, from the side of her enemies - such as miners and Vietnamese children. He argues that her acolytes ensure she 'didn't really die at all'.

John Pilger replies to Jemima Khan who, with others, lost bail money when Julian Assange sought and was granted political asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Jemima Khan has attacked Assange and his supporters as "blinkered".

John Pilger describes the invasion of Africa and how its stated reasons are both false and unnewsworthy, leaving official truth to Hollywood.

John Pilger inaugurates a very different prize for sham journalism, and not the journalism made infamous by Rupert Murdoch who "has been honoured enough".

John Pilger argues that the Leveson inquiry into the British press served to preserve a corrupt system, having omitted all mention of hacking on an scale that it touches us all.