In my 1994 film Death of a Nation there is a scene on board an aircraft flying between northern Australia and the…
Arthur Miller wrote, “Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state…
John Pilger’s new book, Freedom Next Time (Bantam Press, 2006; http://www.johnpilger.com/) has just been published. Containing chapters on Diego Garcia, Palestine, India,…
The long, wide, bleak streets of cobblestones and tufts of petrified grass reach for the sacred mountain Illimani, whose pyramid of snow…
I have spent the past three weeks filming in the hillside barrios of Caracas, in streets and breeze-block houses that defy gravity…
The lifts in the New York Hilton played CNN on a small screen you could not avoid watching. Iraq was top of…
People ask: Can this be happening in Britain? Surely not. A centuries-old democratic constitution cannot be swept away. Basic human rights cannot…
The war lovers I have known in real wars have usually been harmless, except to themselves. They were attracted to Vietnam and…
In 1993, I and four others travelled clandestinely across East Timor to gather evidence of the genocide committed by the Indonesian dictatorship.…
The other day, one of my favourite cinemas closed down. The boards went up on the art-deco Valhalla in Sydney, one of…
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