Really Peter who’s insulting who, when you call “morons” those who might stand up to a self-righteous ‘prophet’? To highlight Pilger’s ignorance of the issue is perhaps certain reason to give him and his followers offence; nevertheless, balance given is often a little unsettling for the unbalanced.

Quite true, Pilger’s journalism has often uncovered gross injustice, but the lens through which he portrays it generally distorts the truth behind it.

Roberts says, “Americans have no greater enemy than their own government.” In the world’s ‘greatest’ so called ‘democracy’ I’d say “the people” are their own worst enemy.

John Pilger,
You have given of the best of your life and at times risked it to document the injustices and associated cruelties of the world’s powerful.

Your dedication has revealed only part of what goes on behind their well guarded doors. But even this little has and is incomparable with naught your critics have ever been willing to sacrifice in order to disprove your disclosures.

Your ability to report your findings in an engaging manner have procured you enough means to maintain your independence from the corruptions usually paving the paths of journalists, though, at times you had to accept the sharing of platforms with questionable ideologues.

For this dedication I, an ordinary observer, have admired you, but not totally.

In fact I hackled you some months ago in Melbourne, trying and not succeeding, to express my doubts about the total validity of your findings in the world as a stage of ideas.

My opinion is that what you describe, now attributable mainly to the current American Hegemony, would not change a bit were the dominant power be any other.

Should I put this argument by mentioning The English Empire or the ones preceding it and skip, in order not to irritate the faithful readers of OLO, the Papal Empire, which effectively took over from the Roman one and, one way or another, subdued people.

John Pilger, humanity set its path to an early disappearance by not challenging the Politics of Aristotle in the way Galileo and Kepler challenged his Physics.

It is the State, as structure for administering the wealth of nations, at the basis of all ills. State implies privilege. Privilege causes wars. Wars kill humanity

I think that finally people are beginning to grasp the reality of the industrial military complex that JFK and others have alluded to.

It is in fact the Global Reserve Banks and Wall Street that are the manipulators behind the scenes.They create wars for profit,oil and resources.They have destroyed the US economy and now are seeking more ways to steal wealth from the masses.

John Pilger, you have an amazing ability to ignore both facts and reason while apparantly convincing many that you have done credible research to support your assertions. It would be useful (though impossible)for you to document your "opinions".

Joe ,You need to access Ron Paul's site http://www.ronpaul.com/
and learn the truth from the great Congressman of Texas.He speaks the truth just like John Pilger.Now that takes courage and integrity.

Are you up to the task?

Arjay, Thanks for providing the website for Dr. Ron Paul. As I’m sure most know, Paul ran for President in 1988 as the nominee of the Libertarian Party and in 2008, he was soundly defeated as he ran in the Republican Primary for President. I agree with your view of his courage as many of his views take guts to express. But I have no problem agreeing with some of his views and he is on target about our “willy nilly” jumping into wars. It surprised me to see Aussies suggesting that those on the left are interested in pursuing the war in Afghanistan. As Johnny Mac, one of our former tennis players used to say, they “can't be serious”! I am squarely on the left and we are in favor of negotiation and never in favor of war while the right has never seen a war that they disliked. The right even believes in preventive war, that is, a war like we started in Iraq!

Ron Paul understands that there is no “win” possible in Afghanistan and that regardless of who is elected there, the winner’s influence would be minimal and not extend beyond his immediate area. Ron Paul cannot get elected President here. He openly expresses what is going on but his inability to convince the masses in U.S. of these destructive policies buries him. I have no doubt that Obama knows of the futility of a continued war in Afghanistan and that he knew this before his election. He also understood that if he had a platform of withdrawing from both Iraq and Afghanistgan, he could not have been elected. Identified as “soft” he would have been clobbered while running against a war-loving confidant military man who was planning to “win” in both Iraq and Afghanistan. If I knew these things, I'm sure Obama knew them.

Ron Paul is an OK guy but my friends, Pilger is no Ron Paul!