With sadness Consortium News reports that John Pilger, whose books, films and articles informed generations of people eager to cut through official narratives and propaganda on the Palestinian question; U.S. wars executed in Vietnam, Iraq and elsewhere; the one it plans for China; the state of public medicine in Britain; the treatment of aborigines in his native […]
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John Pilger 1939-2023
Alexander Mercouris pays tribute to John Pilger below. https://johnpilger.com/biography Australian national flower. It seems appropriate. https://www.botanicgardens.org.au/discover-and-learn/horticulture-and-history/what-australias-national-flower A short, concise and perfect eulogy. https://youtu.be/uQKE-Bb–YE Ned Substack: https://nedpamphilon.substack.com/p/john-pilger-1939-2023 Previous TAP: https://tapnewswire.com/2023/12/happy-new-year-2024/ Source Views: 0
Four Documentaries by John Pilger (Transcripts included)
Celebrating the life of one of investigative journalism’s greats who recently died … watch four of his many documentaries. Search YT for the rest, and/or go to his website here. EWNZ Classic John Pilger documentary about the decades long occupation of Palestine and subjugation of the Palestinian people. In a series of extraordinary interviews with […]
In memory of legendary journalist John Pilger: The New Rulers of The World
Sadly, John Pilger has died. He has featured greatly in my own reading, especially of Australia’s real history. He always so skillfully laid bare the lies, the lies of those ‘new rulers’. I treasure his books, they are a mine of knowledge and truth that the whore media no longer dares to publish. Or did […]
John Pilger Silencing the lambs:: How propaganda works
By John Pilger August 20/21, 2023 – Information Clearing House – In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the same lodge in Kenya, where she was on a photography assignment, having escaped the fate of other friends of […]
‘THIS IS A WAR OF PROPAGANDA’: JOHN PILGER ON UKRAINE AND ASSANGE
July 13th, 2022 Australian journalist, author and documentary filmmaker John Pilger has dedicated his life to the pursuit of truth and shining a light on inconvenient facts that often contradict the mainstream media narrative. In this episode of Talking Post, Pilger sits down with SCMP chief news editor Yonden Lhatoo to discuss the war in […]
John Pilger: Afghanistan, The Great Game of Smashing Countries
As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed. In 1978, a liberation movement led by the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) overthrew the dictatorship of Mohammad Dawd, the cousin of King Zahir […]
John Pilger: The Most Lethal Virus is Not Covid-19. It is War. by John Pilger
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC The same people destroying liberty around the world in the name of fighting the Covid-19 “threat” have no compunction about waging murderous wars that kill far more than Covid ever will. From John Pilger at consortiumnews.com: Covid-19 has provided cover for a pandemic of propaganda, says John Pilger. View original post 259 […]
US Empire Building in China/ Sth Pacific.. watch Pilger’s ‘Coming War On China’
The Free from The Most Revolutionary Act shared with thanks The Coming War on China Directed by John Pilger (2016) Film Review They’re Baaack: US Navy Returns to Philippines’ Subic Bay Amid China Fears ….. The Real Secret of the South China Sea Two things I’ve learned over the years about John Pilger films are […]
John Pilger: Eyewitness To The Agony Of Julian Assange
Above photo: John Pilger, a writer, journalist and supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to people as he arrives at the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, in London, Sept. 14, 2020. Matt Dunham | AP. John Pilger has watched Julian Assange’s extradition trial from the public gallery at London’s Old Bailey. He recently […]
Pilger: ‘Is World War III Already Underway?’
Few in the west will dare speak of Bikini Island, or the fact that China has recently been elevated to a status of a ‘national security threat’ in the United States. Still, whether or not they spoken of in mainstream discourse, they are real and happening now. In this brilliant interview recorded in 2016, award-winning […]
Going Underground – Ep 605: John Pilger Special – Beyond the headlines on Syria, Salisbury, Yemen & North Korea
Going Underground – Ep 605: John Pilger Special – Beyond the headlines on Syria, Salisbury, Yemen & North Korea Going Underground with Afshin Rattansiyoutube.com We speak to the legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger about the events behind the mainstream media headlines on Syria, Salisbury, Yemen and the Korean Peninsula. LIKE Going Underground http://fb.me/GoingUndergroundRTFOLLOW Going […]
John Pilger: ‘Silencing Assange is Part of Aggressive US-UK War on Free Speech’
The following is an interview with award-winning international journalist John advocating here on behalf of Wikileak’s founder Julian Assange – who has been arbitrarily detained for the last 5 years in the basement of Ecuadorian embassy in London. Under pressure from the US and UK governments, the Ecuadorian government has now cut off Assange’s communications […]
John Pilger On Mainstream Media And Imperial Power
John Pilger On Mainstream Media And Imperial Power Above Photo: John Pilger, Australian journalist and documentary maker, arrives to meet WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy, in London, June 22, 2012. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis) Emmy award-winning filmmaker John Pilger is among the most important political filmmakers of the 20th and 21st century. From Vietnam to Palestine […]
John Pilger on the Mainstream Media and Imperial Power
Emmy award-winning filmmaker John Pilger is among the most important political filmmakers of the 20th and 21st century. From Vietnam to Palestine to atomic war, Pilger’s work has been on the cutting edge, and his stinging critique of western media has always be revelatory. And, no doubt, his biting analysis is more relevant and important […]
John Pilger Unmasks Corporate Media at Holberg Debate 2017
21st Century Wire says… John Pilger gives his customary, masterful talk during the 2017 Holberg Debate. He unmasks the corporate media as willing and criminal accomplices in the deadly war games played by successive world governments in their march towards supremacy over the prey nations in their crosshairs. Pilger reminds his audience, it is up […]
Going Underground – Ep. 553: John Pilger Special – The Power of Documentary
Going Underground – Ep. 553: John Pilger Special – The Power of Documentary Going Underground with Afshin Rattansiyoutube.com In this episode, we speak to the legendary journalist John Pilger looking back at decades documenting human rights abuse, wars and corruption. LIKE Going Underground http://fb.me/GoingUndergroundRTFOLLOW Going Underground http://twitter.com/Underground_RTFOLLOW Afshin Rattansi http://twitter.com/AfshinRattansiFOLLOW on Instagram http://instagram.com/officialgoingund… View the […]
SUNDAY SCREENING: John Pilger’s ‘Media and War: Challenging the Consensus’
This week’s documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE. This week, instead of a documentary film we are going to share with you an interview segment by one of the most important documentary filmmakers whose works spans over two generations. The clip addresses an important issue raise by award-winning journalist and filmmaker John […]
New “New Labour” and their ‘Secret’ Foreign Policy Agenda ~ John Pilger
John Pilger Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main entrance. The world’s third biggest arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, supplier to Saudi Arabia, was promoting its guns, bombs, missiles, naval ships and fighter aircraft. It seemed a perfidious symbol […]
The Killing of History ~John Pilger
The lone survivor of an all-women anti-aircraft battery near Hanoi. Most were teenagers. (Photo: John Pilger 1975) John Pilger One of the most hyped “events” of American television, The Vietnam War, has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression […]