The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies — socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor — and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

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.