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John Pilger

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It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.


— John Pilger


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We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.


— John Pilger


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I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.


— John Pilger


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I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.


— John Pilger


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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.


— John Pilger


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Official truths are often powerful illusions.


— John Pilger


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The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.


— John Pilger


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Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.


— John Pilger


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It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.


— John Pilger


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Pilger has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award and his documentaries screened internationally have gained awards in Britain and worldwide and the journalist has received several honorary doctorates. In 2001 while Piers Morgan was editor of the Mirror he returned to his old paper in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks. Of the British-American Project for Pilger an example of "Atlanticist freemasonry" he asserted in 1998 that "many members are journalists the essential foot soldiers in any network devoted to power and propaganda.

Since his early years as a war correspondent in Vietnam Pilger has been a strong critic of American Australian and British foreign policy which he considers to be driven by an imperialist agenda. In the British print media he has had a long association with the Daily Mirror and writes a fortnightly columnn for the New Statesman magazine.

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