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….

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days..

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It reall….

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 ups….

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 fro….

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, ever….

It's only when journalists understand the role they play in this propaganda, it's only when they realize they can't be both independent, honest journ….

Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations. They d….

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

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty..

Official truths are often powerful illusions..

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

Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a whole set of assumptions,….

The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty villages in Afghanistan didn't m….

In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or brow….

Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge ….

Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right t….

If 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 ….

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 rich….

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surr….

Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words "imp….