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Four years ago, I travelled the length of Iraq, from the hills where St. Matthew is buried in the Kurdish north to…
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.
In the New Statesman, John Pilger writes: “With the most lethal weapons billions of dollars can buy, and the threats of their…
Ten years ago, I filmed secretly in East Timor, a small country in south-east Asia whose brutal occupation was largely unknown to…
Sydney Hyde Park 20 March 2004: Let us be clear on the facts of what happened one year ago today. The United…
The invasion of Iraq, now in its second year, was “organised with lies”, says the new Spanish prime minister. Does anyone doubt…
The current threat of attacks in countries whose governments have close alliances with Washington is the latest stage in a long struggle…
TONY JONES: John Pilger, do you still maintain that the world depends on what you call “the Iraqi resistance” to inflict a…
A myth equal to the fable of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction is gaining strength on both sides of the Atlantic. It…
Once again, the neat, placid surface of white Australia is disturbed by those who owned and cared for this country and remain…
During the war against Iraq, the BBC’s Today programme sent Andrew Gilligan to Baghdad. Gilligan’s reports were unlike anything the BBC had…