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Milan Kundera’s truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”, described East Timor. The day before…
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.
Editor's Commentary: We published the full length, revolutionary film documentary by John Pilger, The War You Don't See in 2010 and 2011 when it appeared on…
One of my first jobs as a junior reporter was to meet flights bringing famous people to Australia. Growing up in a…
War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public…
In 1963, a senior Australian government official, A.R. Taysom, deliberated on the wisdom of deploying women as trade representatives. “Such an appointee…
In the kabuki theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. It is theatre after all;…
This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies.…
Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was…
When the early morning fog rises and drifting skeins from wood fires carry the sweet smell of India, the joggers arrive in…
On 22 May 2007, the Guardian’s front page announced: “Iran’s secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq.” The…