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About John Pilger

John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two to have twice won British journalism's top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US. In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. "John Pilger," wrote Harold Pinter, "unearths, with steely attention facts, the filthy truth. I salute him."
  • House Of Leaves

    There is a war coming shrouded in propaganda. It will involve us. Speak up

    Originally published: John Pilger Blog on May 1, 2023 (more by John Pilger Blog)

    In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war.

  • Julian Assange

    We are Spartacus

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on November 12, 2023 (more by Janata Weekly)  |

    Julian and David are Spartacus. The Palestinians are Spartacus. People who fill the streets with flags and principle and solidarity are Spartacus. We are all Spartacus if we want to be.

  • DVIDS

    From yellow journalism to China bashing, the media’s enduring role in promoting war

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 1, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war.

  • This is an abridged version of an address by John Pilger in Sydney on 10 March to mark the launch in Australia of Davide Dormino’s sculpture of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, ‘Figures of Courage’.

    The betrayers of Julian Assange

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 10, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    “I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of humour, often dispensed with an infectious giggle. He is a proud outsider: sharp and thoughtful.” – John Pilger

  • Leni Riefenstahl, center, filming with two assistants, 1936. (Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

    Silencing the Lambs — How propaganda works

    Originally published: Consortium News on September 7, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done.

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with service members of the country’s armed forces at combat positions in the Donetsk region, Feb. 17, 2022. Photo | Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP

    War in Europe and the rise of raw propaganda

    Originally published: MintPress News on February 17, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The war hysteria that has rolled in like a tidal wave in recent weeks and months is the most striking example. Known by its jargon, “shaping the narrative,” much if not most of it is pure propaganda.

  • Julian Assange

    The Judicial kidnapping of Julian Assange

    Originally published: MintPress News on December 13, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    What is at stake is both a courageous man’s life and, if we remain silent, the conquest of our intellects and sense of right and wrong: indeed our very humanity.

  • Julian Assange

    Why Julian Assange’s inhumane prosecution imperils justice for us all

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on November 2, 2021 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    The damage done to the Wikileaks co-founder in his decade of incarceration and uncertainty, including more than two years in Belmarsh is beyond doubt. But so, too, is his courage beyond doubt.

  • John Pilger

    ‘The invasion of Afghanistan was a fraud’: an interview with John Pilger

    Originally published: The Hindu on September 9, 2021 (more by The Hindu)  |

    The Taliban were a convenient target to satisfy a political lust for revenge for 9/11.

  • Military in Afghanistan

    John Pilger: Afghanistan, the great game of smashing countries

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 24, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    In 2010, I was in Washington and arranged to interview the mastermind of Afghanistan’s modern era of suffering, Zbigniew Brzezinski. I quoted to him his autobiography in which he admitted that his grand scheme for drawing the Soviets into Afghanistan had created “a few stirred up Muslims”. “Do you have any regrets?” I asked. “Regrets! Regrets! What regrets?” – John Pilger

  • The High Court at the Royal Courts of Justice.

    A day in the death of British justice

    Originally published: Consortium News on August 12, 2021 (more by Consortium News)  |

    The reputation of British justice now rests on the shoulders of the High Court in the life or death case of Julian Assange.

  • ANOTHER HIROSHIMA IS COMING… UNLESS WE STOP IT NOW

    Another Hiroshima is coming…. Unless we stop it now

    Originally published: The New Dark Age on August 4, 2020 (more by The New Dark Age)

    In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from  five ‘ground zeros’ for nuclear weapons – from Hiroshima to Bikini, Nevada to Polynesia and Australia. He warns that unless we take action now, China is next.

  • Image by duncan c via Flickr

    John Pilger: Can we trust our governments in what they say to us about Coronavirus? No, we can’t, absolutely not!

    Originally published: Dandelion Salad on April 9, 2020 (more by Dandelion Salad)

    On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and film-maker John Pilger about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

  • Guest Media Alert by John Pilger: 'Hold the front page. The reporters are missing'

    Guest Media Alert

    Originally published: Media Lens on September 20, 2018 (more by Media Lens)  |

    The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age of the reporter. Parry was “a trailblazer for independent journalism”, wrote Seymour Hersh, with whom he shared much in common.

  • Nuclear war Picture Alamy

    Dangerous times: John Pilger discusses North Korea, China and the threat of nuclear war and accident

    Originally published: PIPR (the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research) on September 6, 2017 (more by PIPR (the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research))

    The US continues to provoke North Korea with military exercises near its borders. It also fails to live up to diplomatic agreements. Western media continue to distort the chronology of cause and effect, inverting reality to claim that North Korea is provoking the West.

  • Exclusive: Chomsky, Pilger Slam Trump Threats Against Venezuela

    Chomsky, Pilger slam Trump threats against Venezuela

    Originally published: The Dawn News on August 13, 2017 (more by The Dawn News)  |

    Noam Chomsky and John Pilger spoke with teleSUR, denouncing U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to Venezuela as irresponsible, but typical according to the president’s behavior and U.S. history.

  • Nuclear bombs, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, 200,000 people killed — George Weller, William Blum The WE News Archives

    On the beach 2017

    Originally published: teleSUR on August 4, 2017 (more by teleSUR)  |

    The U.S. submarine captain says, “We’ve all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you’re never ready, because you don’t know when it’s coming. Well, now we do know and there’s nothing to be done about it.”

  • Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya: Worthy Victims and Unworthy Victims

    John Pilger

      Trafalgar Square, London, 8 October 2011, Video by Harry Fear TV At the very moment we are here, the United States, Britain, and France are bombing a city in Libya called Sirte.  There are 100,000 people.  Day and night, residential buildings, clinics, schools have been hit with fragmentation bombs and Hellfire missiles. . . […]

Monthly Review Essays

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    Iker Suarez A banner at a memorial rally for victims of the 2014 massacre of migrants at Tarajal, 2021.

    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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