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The crows beat their wings against the bay windows, waiting to ascend and dive. Their cries are incessant; it is their apocalyptic…
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.
On 6 May last, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution which,in effect, authorised a “pre-emptive” attack on Iran. The vote…
BRITAIN remains one of the few countries where documentaries are still shown on mainstream television in the hours when most people are…
On 8 July, BBC television showed an outstanding documentary called The Boy from the Block. It is about Australia and opens with…
First it was Reagan, now it is Clinton. The homage continues. When Reagan died, Gavin Esler, one of the BBC’s star reporters,…
The D-Day anniversary and the election campaign have been a rich time for the kind of propaganda that marks the limits of…
The editor of the Daily Mirror, Britain‘s most famous mass-circulation newspaper, was sacked because he ran the only English-language popular paper to…
Since I left Australia, one journey has remained a small dream unfulfilled. It involves going north in New South Wales, to an…
Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger recalls the news coverage of the war in Vietnam and how American atrocities and torture…
Four years ago, I travelled the length of Iraq, from the hills where St. Matthew is buried in the Kurdish north to…