Torture is news but it's not new
7 May 2004
Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger recalls the news coverage of the war in Vietnam and how American atrocities and torture were not considered newsworthy. The same was true of the brutality of British colonial adventures.

US foreign policy has not changed since Vietnam and, potentially, it is more dangerous than ever
22 Dec 2000
The other day, an Indonesian friend took me to his primary school where, in October 1965, his teacher was beaten to death, suspected of being a communist.

The price of Vietnam being allowed to come out of isolation was the destruction of its health services
27 Nov 2000 
In reporting Bill Clinton's visit to Vietnam, the BBC's diplomatic correspondent declared that what the Vietnamese needed was "more economic growth". The question begged: why send a reporter all the way to Hanoi when the British ambassador would have happily propagated this line? 
 
Nuclear war, courtesy of Nato
4 May 1999
Kosovo, like Vietnam, has liberal support. But what of our weapons? The 'just and noble liberal war', in which Nato bombs have now incinerated people on a bus, having already killed passengers on a train, refugees on tractors, the elderly in a hostel, workers in factories and children in their homes, is not the first.

Vietnam now
22 Apr 1995
John Pilger reported the Vietnam War for a decade, right up until the last day. Twenty years on he returns to find a country facing a new battle. This time there are no bombs and there is no napalm. But already the civilian casualties are mounting again.