John Pilger

John Pilger, New Statesman'de yayımlanan son makalesinde, gerçek savaşlarda karşılaştığı "neredeyse sevimli bulabileceğiniz alık"lardan çok farklı bir savaş tutkununu tanımlıyor.

Bush and Blair are gearing up for it, and they are preparing us, too - just as they did before attacking Iraq. But where is the threat?

Eighty-year-old John Catt served with the RAF in the Second World War. Last September, he was stopped by police in Brighton for wearing an "offe! nsive" T-shirt, which suggested that Bush and Blair be tried for war crimes.

The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news and information and to the world wide web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power.

Here are questions that are not being asked about the latest twist of a cynical war. Were explosives and a remote-control detonator found in the car of the two SAS special forces men "rescued" from prison in Basra on 19 September?

New Orleans was said to be cosmopolitan; it was also sinister and murderous. We were protected by the then District Attorney, Jim Garrison, a liberal maverick whose investigations into the assassination of John Kennedy were to make powerful enemies behind The Facade.

Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on the New York Times. He has been described as "a guard dog of US foreign policy". Whatever America's warlords have in mind for the rest of humanity, Friedman will bark it.

Between 1936 and 1939, the International Brigade fought in Spain on the side of the republican government against the fascist forces of General Franco. They were British and other Europeans, Americans and Australians.

The world is a very different place from Barcelona in 1938, and from the Sierra del Pandols, and the Valley of Jarama, and all the battlefields of Spain, but the legacy of those who confronted fascism then endures as a warning to us all today.

The Polite Crushing Of Dissent And Truth

The ghost at Gleneagles

Art arda düzenlenen zirvelerde G8'in tek bir kayda değer "sözü" bile tutulmadı ve "milyonların zaferi" de bunlardan pek farklı değil. Bu bir sahtekârlık, gerçekte Afrika'daki yoksulluğu azaltmanın önünde bir engel.

The front page of the London Observer on 12 June announced, "55 billion Africa debt deal 'a victory for millions'." The "victory for millions" is a quotation of Bob Geldof, who said, "Tomorrow 280 million Africans will wake up for the first time in their lives without owing you or me a penny...".

The National Union of Journalists and the Blair government are planning a "launch" ceremony, at which they will announce their "partnership".

John Pilger, İngiltere'de Blair'in yeniden Başbakan olarak seçilmesinden birkaç gün önce, "Blair'e oy vermek suretiyle, yalancının zaferini onaylamış olacaksınız. Gerçek siyaset, bizim adımıza suça teşebbüs edenler ve tüm insanlık hakkında duyduğumuz sorumlulukla ilgilidir" demişti.

30 Nisan sabahı saat 2:30'da Kissinger Büyükelçi Martin'e telefon etti ve tahliyeyi 3:45'te sona erdirmesini söyledi. Yarım saat sonra Martin, elinde bir evrak çantası ve içinde katlanmış ABD bayrağı bulunan bir poşetle göründü.

Irak'ın işgalinin ikinci yıldönümünde, Sidney'de yapılan savaş karşıtı gösterilerde konuşan Pilger, "Gazetecilik hayatımda, daha önce dünyanın dört bir yanındaki sıradan insanların, bizi bekleyen tehlike ve meselelerle ilgili bu kadar uyanık olduğunu hiç görmemiştim" dedi.

Sydney Hyde Park, 20 March 2005: The other day, the Aboriginal film-maker Richard Frankland said this: "When you've got a voice, you've got freedom, and when you've got freedom, you've got responsibility. Negotiating with politicians doesn't work. You've got to change attitudes."

Bu imtiyazlı iletişimciler, gerçeklere ulaşmak için ellerinde sınırsız olanak varken, meşru olmayan ve vahşi bir işgal altında gerçekleştirilen bir seçimi, nasıl olurda "demokratik" olarak nitelerler? Bunlar tarih okumuyorlar mı?

How does thought control work in societies that call themselves free?

Aung San Suu Kyi ve partisi Ulusal Demokrasi Birliği, Burma'da 1990 seçimleri sonucunda parlamentoda %82 oranında koltuğa sahipti. Şu anda ev hapsinde tutuluyor. Bu da, zafer kazananları hapse atan, işkence eden ve halkın çoğunu esir alan bir askeri cuntanın habercisi.

The west's crusaders, the United States and Britain, are giving less to help the tsunami victims than the cost of a Stealth bomber or a week's bloody occupation of Iraq. The bill for George Bush's coming inauguration party would rebuild much of the coastline of Sri Lanka.

I tried to phone her the other day. I still have a number she gave me, which I could call infrequently and exchange a few words. It was fruitless to try this time; the hurried click at the other end was an echo of her Kafkaesque oppression.

Bir Avrupa ülkesine yapacakları gayri meşru ve gerekçesiz saldırı konusunda, Clinton ve Blair'in kamuoyunu inandırmak için söyledikleri yalanlar da, en az Bush ve Blair tarafından söylenmiş olanlar kadar büyük.

Muted by the evidence of the Anglo-American catastrophe in Iraq, the international "humanitarian" war party ought to be called to account for its largely forgotten crusade in Kosovo, the model for Tony Blair's "onward march of liberation". Just as Iraq

Mainstream media speak as if Fallujah were populated only by foreign "insurgents". In fact, women and children are being slaughtered in our name.

If George W Bush wins, according to a scientist I met, who escaped Nazi-dominated Europe, America will surrender many of its democratic trappings and succumb to its totalitarian impulses. If John Kerry wins, according to most Democrat voters, the only mandate he will have is that he is not Bush.

There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments lie.

In February this year, Rupert Murdoch predicted that, within three years, there would be just three global media corporations and his company would be one of them. He may have exaggerated, but not by much.

The world is dividing into two hostile camps: Islam and "us". That is the unerring message from western governments, press, radio and television.