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John Richard Pilger (/ˈpɪldʒər/; born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist and documentary film maker mainly based in the United Kingdom since 1962.

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Certainly, until there is justice for the Palestinians, there will never be any kind of stability in the Middle East.

East, Justice, Kind, Middle East, Palestinians, Stability

Who are these evil ones? In 1984, the evil one was called Goldstein. Orwell was writing a grim parody. But these people running the United States mean what they say. If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

Book, Books, Mean, Orwell, Running, Teacher

In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In this, the richest, 'booming' state, the prisons bulge with stricken Aboriginal people, including juveniles whose mothers stand at the prison gates, pleading for their release. The incarceration of black Australians here is eight times that of black South Africans during the last decade of apartheid.

Aboriginal, Australia, Land, Mother, People, Stand

If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.

Children, Fraction, Fry, Support, War

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

Group, Groups, People, Take, Wealth, World

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

Animal, Book, Live, Read, Teacher

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.

Agendas, Enough, Hidden, Messengers, Understanding

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'official truth'. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as 'functionaires', functionaries, not journalists.

Ciphers, Echoers, Functionaires, Grieving, Lying, Truth

Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a moral choice. ' His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.

Choices, Land, Principle, Prisoner, Soldier

Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self again. I received a call asking if I would write for it again, which I've done. It's a pleasure to be able to do that. It's become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.

Decided, Media, Mirrors, Quite, Roots, Writing

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

America, Mostly, People, Places, War

Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words "impartiality" and "objectivity" is that they have lost their dictionary meaning. They've been taken over. "Impartiality" and "objectivity" now mean the establishment point of view.

Impartial, Impartiality, Mean, Point, Taken, Views

The Palestinians don't have oil. If they were the Saudis, they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But they have the power of being able to upset the imperial order in the Middle East.

Oil, Order, Palestinians, Position, Upset

Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

Empire, Identified, Mind, Passive Voice, Used, Weapons

It's quite clear that Gore won most of the votes. I think the accurate description for them is a military plutocracy. Having lived and worked in the United States, I must add that I don't want to make too much of the distinction between the Bush regime and its predecessors. I don't see a great deal of difference.

Differences, Gore, Military, Think, Thinking, United

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

Dominate, Propaganda, Reading, Security, Two, War

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

Terror, War, War On Terror

In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.

America, Days, Justified, Lasts, People, Truth

The impact of the human tragedies I've reported on is that, more often than not, I'll be angry. I want to know why is this child dying? These are not acts of God; they're results of respectable politicians' decisions.

Children, Decision, Decisions, Human, Impact, Reported

In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or brown-skinned non-people living in faraway places such as Zaire and Guatemala, there was no terrorism. When the weak attacked the powerful, spectacularly on 9
11, there was terrorism.

Black, Guatemala, People, Places, Powerful, September

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