Famous quotes by John Pilger:

"I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language."

"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."

"I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog."

"There are fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, who appear to be in charge of the White House at the moment, but they are very different from the Christian gentlemen who ran the British Empire and believed they were doing good works around the world. These days it's about naked power."

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

"It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people."

"The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the job. The war on terrorism has given them that opportunity."

"Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war"

"Nothing more vividly sums up the horrific situation in Iraq than what happened on Wednesday of this week when American helicopters attacked a wedding party in the west of Iraq killing 40 mostly women and children, a massacre. How long is the world going to stand for this? When I say the world I'm talking about civilized humanity."

"Official truths are often powerful illusions"

"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."

"Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war."

"We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government."

"Official truths are often powerful illusions."

"Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed."