John Pilger
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Founder/Owner of | JohnPilger.com |
Member of | American Herald Tribune, Justice for Megrahi |
John Pilger is a crusading journalist who has achieved fame in spite of a refusal to cow tow to the establishment by avoiding controversial issues. He has made multiple documentaries, some of which broke new ground by exposing misdeeds of the rich and powerful. |
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Appreciation
John Richard Pilger 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
Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
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Document:Australia - The Forgotten Coup | article | 16 March 2014 | US/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 beckoning | article | 13 May 2014 | 2014 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 Assange | Article | 2 October 2020 | Craig 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 moves | article | 8 October 2014 | Iraq 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 Fire | article | 8 January 2009 | Gaza War (2008–09) | |
Document:Good war - Bad war | article | 12 February 2014 | North 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 Imagine | article | 6 December 2012 | Mass 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 War | article | 8 July 2008 | Baha Mousa UK/Torture | |
Document:Is media just another word for control? | audio transcript | 2 January 2014 | Propaganda 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 Betrayed | Article | 18 February 2020 | Wikileaks 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 History | Article | 12 April 2019 | Wikileaks 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 Home | article | 9 February 2011 | 2011 Egyptian Revolution | |
Document:The Long Secret Alliance | article | September 1997 | Cambodia 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 Over | article | 4 November 2010 | Economic justice | |
Document:The Word We Dare Not Speak | article | 24 February 2011 | 2003 Iraq War | |
Document:The World War on Democracy | article | 19 January 2012 | Chagos Archipelago | An 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 Australia | article | 5 November 2013 | Aboriginal peoples Australian Apartheid | |
Document:The forbidden truth is an insurrection in Britain | article | 18 August 2011 | 2011 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 America | article | 8 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 lie | article | 13 July 2015 | 2015 Greek debt crisis | John 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 news | article | 31 January 2013 | The Great Game The Grand Chessboard Africa | The real character of renewed US and Western involvement in Africa |
Document:Utopia | interview | 15 November 2013 | Australia Australian apartheid Aboriginal peoples | |
Document:Why Wikileaks must be protected | article | 19 August 2010 | Wikileaks | |
Document:Protecting Libyan civilians? - Pap for the gullible | article | 10 April 2011 | 2011 Attacks on Libya | The 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. |
Quotes by John Pilger
Page | Quote | Date | Source |
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Australian Strategic Policy Institute | “ASPI has played a leading role – some would say, the leading role – in driving Australia’s mendacious and self-destructive and often absurd China-bashing campaign. The current Coalition government, perhaps the most right-wing and incompetent in Australia’s recent history, has relied upon the ASPI to disseminate Washington’s desperate strategic policies, into which much of the Australian political class, along with its intelligence and military structures, has been integrated.”” | 2016 | |
BBC | “The BBC began in 1922, just before the corporate press began in America. Its founder was Lord John Reith, who believed that impartiality and objectivity were the essence of professionalism. In the same year the British establishment was under siege. The unions had called a general strike and the Tories were terrified that a revolution was on the way. The new BBC came to their rescue. In high secrecy, Lord Reith wrote anti-union speeches for the Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and broadcast them to the nation, while refusing to allow the labor leaders to put their side until the strike was over. So, a pattern was set. Impartiality was a principle certainly: a principle to be suspended whenever the establishment was under threat. And that principle has been upheld ever since.” | 16 June 2007 | Information Clearing House |
Event Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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International Festival of Whistleblowing Dissent and Accountability | 8 May 2021 | 8 May 2021 | Internet | Whistleblowing event held in 2021. |
Event Witnessed
Event | Location(s) | Description |
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RFK/Assassination | US Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles California | The assassination of Robert Kennedy, who had resolved to bring to track down and prosecute the killers of him brother, JFK, once he had himself become president. |
Related Document
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:Assange Must Not Also Die in Jail | blog post | 13 August 2019 | Craig Murray | Many of the same people who are relieved by Jeffrey Epstein’s death would like to see Julian Assange dead too. |
References
- ↑ John Pilger - New Statesman
- ↑ Noam Chomsky, introduction to 'The New Rulers of the World' by John Pilger, April 2002
- ↑ Breaking the Silence: The Television Reporting of John Pilger, Anthony Hayward (Network, 2008)