RETHINKING JOHN PILGER

Pilger reported on Burma:



The documentary seems to attack French oil company Total and American energy company Unocal, while at the same time promoting Aung San Suu Kyi who had been residing in London for years, sending her children to Oxford-based private schools and then to Oxford University, even though her father had negotiated the independence of Burma from Great Britain, who then assassinated him.

Another thing is that Pilger seems to accept Amnesty International and the US State Dept, even though at the time Pilger cites these two, the claim by Amnesty International that Nayirah, an alleged nurse in Kuwait who claimed to have seen Iraqi soldiers tip babies out of their incubators onto the floor of a Kuwaiti hospital, was being questioned because Nayirah was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States.