John Pilger; My mother, aged 19, sold her books to pay the fare to her first teaching job in the bush. The currency of her generation was determination and courag, New Statesman, 17 May 2004, p. 15.
John Pilger; With an eye to its vast Asian market, Europe promotes human rights when the price is right. In Burma, crimes against humanity are allowed to continue without challenge, New Statesman, 24 January 2005, pp. 17-18.
John Pilger; If you want to know the truth about Iraq, join the millions who have given up on the silences of the mainstream media , New Statesman, 28 November 2005, p. 24.
NS Cover Story; Iran The Next War; 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?, New Statesman, 13 February 2006, pp. 16-18.
A glimpse of freedom; Out of the new spirit in Latin America, the Bolivians (with the Venezuelans) have come closest to forging revolutionary change. The government of "Evo" is on notice. John Pilger reports from El Alto, New Statesman, 29 May 2006, pp. 2
John Pilger in Hay-On-Wye; I revelled in the company of my daughter, raged against Big Al Gore, considered a tattoo, The Guardian Weekend, 10 June 2006, p. 7.
The return of people power; Here in the west, we have much to learn from resistance movements in dangerous places and their tactics of informed direct action, New Statesman, 04 September 2006, p. 14.
We cannot look from the sides as we are led towards crisis over Iran; Bush and Blair have spent four years preparing an onslaught that is about oil, rather than non-existent nuclear weapons, The Guardian, 13 April 2007, p. 29.
The Lies of Hiroshima live on, props in the war crimes of the 20th century; The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims' names, we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East, The Guardian, 06 August 2008, p. 23.