As advanced societies are de-politicised, the changes are both subtle and spectacular
John Pilger
John Richard Pilger (9 October 1939 – 30 December 2023) was an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. Based mostly in the UK since 1962, John Pilger has been an internationally influential investigative reporter, a strong critic of Australian, British and American foreign policy since his early reporting days in Vietnam, and has also condemned official treatment of Indigenous Australians. Twice winner of Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award, he has won many other awards for his documentaries on foreign affairs and culture. He was also a cherished ZFriend.
Why do we ¬tolerate the threat of ¬another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk?
Or how we are hoodwinked into accepting a new world war
The violent inequality that now stalks South Africa is no dream
It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognised abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century
And How the Same Godfather Rules From Canberra to Kiev
Historians, like journalists, play their most honourable role when they myth-bust
The Faustian pacts that contrived a world war a century ago resonate today across the Middle East
The nominees for the Celebrity Oscars
Utopia had its premiere in the urban heart of indigenous Australia