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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 survey after survey, when people are asked what they would like more of on television, they say documentaries
Media in the West is now an extension of imperial power. It is no longer a loose extension, it is a direct extension
I first understood the power of the documentary during the editing of my first film, The Quiet Mutiny. In the commentary, I…
On 16 October, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation aired an interview with Hillary Clinton: one of many to promote her score-settling book about…
Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in…
The “meaning” of the Vietnam war is no different from the meaning of the genocidal campaign against the Native Americans, the colonial massacres in the Philippines, the atomic bombings of Japan, the levelling of every city in North Korea
When the Palestinians rise again, as they will, they may not succeed at first — but they will eventually if we understand that they are us, and we are them
North Korea, China and the Threat of Nuclear War and Accident
War is what the United States does to others