John Pilger

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John Richard Pilger (born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist and documentary film maker, based in London. England. He has twice won the UK's Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries have received academy awards in Britain and the US. [1] Noam Chomsky said of Pilger:

"John Pilger's work has been a beacon of light in often dark times. The realities he has brought to light have been a revelation, over and over again, and his courage and insight a constant inspiration." [2]

In Breaking the Silence: The Television Reporting of John Pilger, his appraisal of the journalist's documentaries, Anthony Hayward wrote,

"For more than a generation, he has been an ever stronger voice for those without a voice and a thorn in the side of authority and the Establishment. His work, particularly his television documentaries, has also made him rare in being a journalist who is universally known, a champion of those for whom he fights and the scourge of politicians and others whose actions he exposes." [3]

 

Documents by John Pilger

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
Document:Australia - The Forgotten Couparticle16 March 2014US/Sponsored Regime-change efforts since 1945
Australia/1975 coup d'état
The November 1975 dismissal of duly elected Australian Prime minister Gough Whitlam by Queen Elizabeth's governor general Sir John Kerr. And Australians STILL think they live in an independent democratic country
Document:Break the silence: a world war is beckoningarticle13 May 20142014 Ukraine coup
WW3
The risk that western sponsored events in Ukraine in Spring 2014 and persistent western lies about the situation, will lead to war with Russia
Document:Eye Witness to the Agony of Julian AssangeArticle2 October 2020Craig Murray
Julian Assange
Vanessa Baraitser
Stella Moris
In the Assange trial, the defendant was caged behind thick glass, and had to crawl on his knees to a slit in the glass, overseen by his guard, to make contact with his lawyers. His message, whispered barely audibly through face masks, was then passed by post-it the length of the court to where his barristers were arguing the case against his extradition to an American hellhole.
Document:From Pol Pot to ISIS: Anything that flies on everything that movesarticle8 October 2014Iraq
Syria
Cambodia
Islamic State
Khymer Rouge
The parallels between the rise to power of Cambodia's Khymer Rouge under Pol Pot in the 1970's and that of ISIS in the Iraq/Syria of 2014.
Document:Gaza Under Firearticle8 January 2009Gaza War (2008–09)
Document:Good war - Bad wararticle12 February 2014North Korea
WW2
WW1
A short readable expose of how the myth of the "Good War" is used by the Western Establishment to fashion our 'reality' - focussing on the largely forgotten devastation visited upon the Korean peninsular by the US and its victorious World War II allies.
Document:Hacking on a Scale you can Barely Imaginearticle6 December 2012Mass surveillance
Hacking
On the glaring omissions and hypocrisies of the Leveson Inquiry into Press standards, noting especially the vast covert programs of interception and permanent storage of every item of electronic communication on the planet for later data-mining wherever the state might deem it expedient to re-construct the life and movements of targetted individuals.
Document:How Britain Wages Wararticle8 July 2008Baha Mousa
UK/Torture
Document:Is media just another word for control?audio transcript2 January 2014Propaganda
War
Social control
This is a transcript of John Pilger's contribution to a special edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme, on 2 January 2014, guest-edited by the artist and musician Polly Harvey.
Document:Julian Assange Must be Freed, Not BetrayedArticle18 February 2020Wikileaks
Julian Assange
Gareth Peirce
Saudi Arabia
Islamic State
Qatar
John Podesta
Hillary Clinton
Keir Starmer
David Leigh
Malcolm Turnbull
Julia Gillard
Scott Morrison
John Shipton
Nils Melzer
Sarah Ferguson
Stefania Maurizi
Sarah Ferguson's interview made no mention of a leaked document, revealed by WikiLeaks, called 'Libya Tick Tock', prepared for Hillary Clinton, which described her as the central figure driving the destruction of the Libyan state in 2011. This resulted in 40,000 deaths, the arrival of ISIS in North Africa and the European refugee and migrant crisis.
Document:The Assange Arrest is a Warning From HistoryArticle12 April 2019Wikileaks
Julian Assange
Sarah Tisdall
Chelsea Manning
The Guardian
Alan Rusbridger
Katharine Viner
Hillary Clinton
David Leigh
Paul Manafort
Luke Harding
Scott Morrison
Leni Riefenstahl
Lenín Moreno
Leni Riefenstahl, close friend of Adolf Hitler, whose films helped cast the Nazi spell over Germany told me that the message in her films, the propaganda, was dependent not on “orders from above” but on what she called the “submissive void” of the public: "When people no longer ask serious questions, they are submissive and malleable. Anything can happen.”
Document:The Egyptian Revolt is Coming Homearticle9 February 20112011 Egyptian Revolution
Document:The Long Secret AlliancearticleSeptember 1997Cambodia
Khmer Rouge
Pol Pot
The suppressed history of US sponsorship of the genocidal Pol Pot Khymer Rouge regime in Cambodia through the 1970-80's
Document:The Party Game is Overarticle4 November 2010Economic justice
Document:The Word We Dare Not Speakarticle24 February 20112003 Iraq War
Document:The World War on Democracyarticle19 January 2012Chagos ArchipelagoAn illustration of the true nature of 'Globalisation' by recounting the story of the Chagos Islanders and their Machiavellian abuse at the hands of the UK government.
Document:The brutal past and present are another country in secret Australiaarticle5 November 2013Aboriginal peoples
Australian Apartheid
Document:The forbidden truth is an insurrection in Britainarticle18 August 20112011 England riots
Inequality
UK/society
An alternative perspective on the UK London Riots from an author unafraid to make the obvious connection between the England riots and the rampant culture of corruption and greed in the UK Establishment.
Document:The political trial of a caring man and the end of justice in Americaarticle8 November 2012"War on Terror"
Rafil Dhafir
The story of a particularly egregious example of the blind sanctimonious viciousness that the US judicial system reserves for Muslims deemed to have impeded US foreign policy objectives.
Document:The problem of Greece is not only a tragedy. It is a liearticle13 July 20152015 Greek debt crisisJohn Pilger's take of the agreement announced on 12 July 2015 between the EU/ECB and the Syriza government about Greece's debts
Document:The real invasion of Africa is not newsarticle31 January 2013The Great Game
The Grand Chessboard
Africa
The real character of renewed US and Western involvement in Africa
Document:Utopiainterview15 November 2013Australia
Australian apartheid
Aboriginal peoples
Document:Why Wikileaks must be protectedarticle19 August 2010Wikileaks
Document:Protecting Libyan civilians? - Pap for the gulliblearticle10 April 20112011 Attacks on LibyaThe CIA is behind the rebellion in Libya. The front of "humanitarian intervention" is sheer window dressing to try to excuse the Euro-American Attack on Libya.

References

  1. John Pilger - New Statesman
  2. Noam Chomsky, introduction to 'The New Rulers of the World' by John Pilger, April 2002
  3. Breaking the Silence: The Television Reporting of John Pilger, Anthony Hayward (Network, 2008)

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