Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.
John PilgerDuring my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.
John PilgerIt 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.
John PilgerAn elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.
John PilgerIf development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.
John Pilger