John Pilger turns 70: heroic journalist


	John Pilger turns 70: heroic journalist

beanz

7-15-2009 12:10 AM

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what an incredible campaigner against corruption and exploitation he has been.

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8-16-2009 6:49 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

He is a true hero and one of the few honest and hard.hitting investigative journalists left in the world. I can hardly believe he's 70 already.

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  world, its inadequacies and corruptions, for almost 40 years. Few 
  politicians of recent times have escaped the withering criticisms, the icy 
  blast of his rhetoric. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/peter-bills/john-pilger-i-have-watched-the-political-ground-shift-beneath-my-feet-1745808.html">Maybe, just maybe the driving force for journalist John Pilger's life work in 
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  mother, back in Australia more than 50 years ago.
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Pilger still recalls asking her about some wealthy people whom they saw one 
  day in the expensive Belle View suburb of Sydney where, as he puts it now, 
  the "robber barons" of Australia lived. "I grew up in pretty humble 
  circumstances near the best beach in the world, Bondi, in Sydney. What my 
  mother said one day was, 'These people are not better than us, just better 
  off.'" 
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