Despatches
The John Pilger column, with his searing and inimitable analysis of international issues
Articles in Despatches
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Our murderous comedy of errors
- John Pilger
- 11 September 2008
Last month, “our” aircraft slaughtered nearly 100 Afghan civilians, two-thirds of them children aged three months to 16 years, while they slept
Don't forget what happened in Yugoslavia
- John Pilger
- 14 August 2008
- 54 comments
Even as Blair the war leader was on a triumphant tour of "liberated" Kosovo, the KLA was ethnically cleansing more than 200,000 Serbs and Roma from the province
Obama, the prince of bait-and-switch
- John Pilger
- 24 July 2008
- 91 comments
I interviewed a woman who had lost eight members of her family, including six children to a US bomb - but mass murder in Afghanistan isn't news
Fabricate that fear
- John Pilger
- 26 June 2008
- 103 comments
Those snatched from their homes in Britain following 11 September 2001 have all but vanished into an Anglo-American gulag
Obama is a truly Democratic expansionist
- John Pilger
- 12 June 2008
- 23 comments
Truly exciting and historic moments have been fabricated around US presidential campaigns for as long as I can recall, generating bullshit on a grand scale
An award for the voiceless in Gaza
- Mohammed Omer
- 22 May 2008
- 14 comments
My ambition was to get the truth out, not as pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli, but as an independent voice and witness, posing questions
Destroying the best of Britain
- John Pilger
- 08 May 2008
- 9 comments
Watching Durham miners, defeated but unbowed by hunger and debt, march back to the pit in 1985, led by their women, was a glimpse of Britain at its best
South Africa's new struggle
- John Pilger
- 10 April 2008
- 15 comments
The ANC government has allowed the world's most voracious companies to escape reparations for poisoning the land and its people
One of the true heroes
- John Pilger
- 27 March 2008
- 4 comments
Philip Jones Griffiths was the greatest photographer and one of finest journalists of his generation
Iraq's Kurds deserve better neighbours
- Gary Kent
- 28 February 2008
- 24 comments
There is obvious fellow feeling between Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria, but the PKK's actions do the Kurds no favours
