Australian journalist John Pilger, who speaks with the moral voice of George Orwell, discusses how a majority of Britons polled could say fewer than 10,000 Iraqis have been killed since the British- and American-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, when the real number is closer to a million.

A full transcript of the talk below can be read here.

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

BBC Radio 4:

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