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John Pilger on the coming war. Speak up. Now.

John Pilger — Wed, 03 May 2023 13:00:00 +1000

John Pilger recalls the "electric" opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why there is "a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda" today as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.

John Pilger: The betrayers of Julian Assange

John Pilger — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 09:15:00 +1100

The campaign to free Julian Assange is about our most precious human right: to be free, writes John Pilger.

John Pilger: Silencing the lambs. How propaganda works

John Pilger — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:45:00 +1000

John Pilger asks, isn’t it time those who are meant to keep the record straight declared their independence and decoded the propaganda?

John Pilger: War in Europe and the rise of raw propaganda

John Pilger — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 10:45:00 +1100

It is more than a century since Edward Bernays, the father of spin, invented “public relations” as a cover for war propaganda, writes John Pilger. What is new is the virtual elimination of dissent in the mainstream.

Justice denied: The judicial kidnapping of Julian Assange

John Pilger — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:00:00 +1100

The ruling to allow Julian Assange's extradition to the United States is based on fraudulent “assurances” scrabbled together by the Biden administration when it looked in January like justice might prevail, writes John Pilger.

John Pilger: Justice for Assange is justice for all

John Pilger — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:45:00 +1100

As the world awaits the outcome of the United States' appeal to extradite Julian Assange from Britain, the WikiLeaks founder's courage is beyond doubt, writes John Pilger.

John Pilger: The Great Game of smashing countries

John Pilger — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +1000

As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, Afghanistan's history is suppressed, writes John Pilger.

A day in the death of British justice

John Pilger — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +1000

For the "crime" of truth-telling, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being relentless pursued by the United States government, determined to secure his extradition at any cost, writes John Pilger.

John Pilger: The most lethal virus is not COVID-19. It is war

John Pilger — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:45:00 +1100

Today the war drums have new and highly enthusiastic beaters in Britain, America and the 'West', writes John Pilger.

John Pilger: Britain's class war on children

John Pilger — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:15:00 +1100

John Pilger describes how class remains the most virulent disease in Britain, resulting in record levels of child poverty.

John Pilger: Eyewitness to the agony of Julian Assange

Timothy Erik Ström — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 11:15:00 +1100

John Pilger has watched Julian Assange’s extradition trial from the public gallery at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström about the trial.

John Pilger: The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange

John Pilger — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 17:15:00 +1000

Having reported on the long, epic ordeal of Julian Assange, John Pilger gave this address outside the Central Criminal Court in London on September 7 as the WikiLeaks editor’s extradition hearing entered its final stage.

Another Hiroshima is coming — unless we stop it now

John Pilger — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +1000

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified by lies that form the bedrock of the United States' war propaganda in the 21st century, writes John Pilger.

The forgotten coup against 'The Most Loyal Ally'

John Pilger — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:15:00 +1000

The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer "personal" and the property of Buckingham Palace, writes John Pilger. Why does this matter?

Freedom from fear: John Pilger on coronavirus, Assange, propaganda and human rights

TJ Coles — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 16:00:00 +1000

World-renowned journalist and filmmaker John Pilger speaks to author TJ Coles about the coronavirus crisis in the context of propaganda, imperialism, and human rights.

John Pilger: Julian Assange must be freed, not betrayed

John Pilger — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:00:00 +1100

The truth is that Australia could have rescued Julian Assange and can still rescue him, writes John Pilger.

John Pilger: Assange arrest is a warning from history

John Pilger — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 14:30:00 +1000

The arrest of Julian Assange is an explicit warning towards journalists. What happened to the founder and editor of WikiLeaks can happen to you on a newspaper, you in a TV studio, you on radio, you running a podcast, writes John Pilger.

John Pilger: The prisoner says no to Big Brother

John Pilger — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:00:00 +1100

The persecution of Julian Assange is the conquest of us all: of our independence, our self respect, our intellect, our compassion, our politics, our culture, writes John Pilger.

John Pilger: The war on Venezuela is built on lies

John Pilger — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 10:45:00 +1100

A war has been declared on Venezuela, of which the truth is "too difficult" to report, writes John Pilger.

John Pilger: The hidden history of women in Australia who rose up

John Pilger — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 13:45:00 +1000

Like all colonial societies, Australia has secrets. The way we treat Indigenous people is still mostly a secret. For a long time, the fact that many Australians came from what was called "bad stock" was a secret.

"Bad stock" meant convict forebears: those like my great-great grandmother, Mary Palmer, who was incarcerated at the Female Factory in Parramatta, near Sydney, in 1823.

John Pilger: Julian Assange must be brought home

John Pilger — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:30:00 +1000

The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy.

The Australian government and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull have an historic opportunity to decide which it will be.

They can remain silent, for which history will be unforgiving. Or they can act in the interests of justice and humanity and bring this remarkable Australian citizen home.

John Pilger on Ken Burn's 'Vietnam War': The killing of history

John Pilger — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 18:45:00 +1100

One of the most hyped "events" of American television, The Vietnam War, has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression and the history of jazz, Burns says of his Vietnam films, "They will inspire our country to begin to talk and think about the Vietnam war in an entirely new way".

John Pilger: Why the documentary must not be allowed to die

John Pilger — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:30:00 +1100

I first understood the power of the documentary during the editing of my first film,The Quiet Mutiny.

In the commentary, I make reference to a chicken, which my crew and I encountered while on patrol with American soldiers in Vietnam.

“It must be a Vietcong chicken – a communist chicken,” said the sergeant. He wrote in his report: “enemy sighted”.

The chicken moment seemed to underline the farce of the war – so I included it in the film.

That may have been unwise.

John Pilger: The rising of Britain’s ‘new politics’

John Pilger — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +1100

Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main entrance. The world’s third biggest arms manufacturer, BAe Systems, supplier to Saudi Arabia, was promoting its guns, bombs, missiles, naval ships and fighter aircraft.

It seemed a perfidious symbol of a party in which millions of Britons now invest their political hopes. Once the preserve of Tony Blair, it is now led by Jeremy Corbyn, whose career has been very different and is rare in British establishment politics.

John Pilger: The beckoning of nuclear war

John Pilger — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +1000

The United States submarine captain says: “We’ve all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you’re never ready, because you don’t know when it’s coming.

“Well, now we do know and there’s nothing to be done about it.”

He says he will be dead by September. It will take about a week to die, though no one can be sure. Animals live the longest.

The war was over in a month

John Pilger: Palestine is still the issue

John Pilger — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +1000

When I first went to Palestine as a young reporter in the 1960s, I stayed on a kibbutz. The people I met were hard-working, spirited and called themselves socialists.

I liked them. One evening at dinner, I asked about the silhouettes of people in the far distance, beyond our perimeter.

“Arabs", they said, “nomads”. The words were almost spat out.

East Timor’s universal lesson

John Pilger — Thu, 11 May 2017 10:00:00 +1000

Today, it is Timor-Leste that is giving the tutorial in politics. After years of trickery and bullying by Canberra, the people of Timor-Leste have demanded and won the right to negotiate before the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) a legal maritime boundary and a proper share of the oil and gas.

Australia owes Timor Leste a huge debt — some would say, billions of dollars in reparations. Australia should hand over, unconditionally, all royalties collected since Evans toasted Suharto’s dictatorship while flying over the graves of its victims.

John Pilger on the coming war with China

John Pilger — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 11:00:00 +1100

When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of 6 August, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, unforgettably. When I returned many years later, it was gone: taken away, “disappeared”, a political embarrassment.

John Pilger speaks to Julian Assange on the secrets of the US elections

John Pilger — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 11:00:00 +1100

This interview by John Pilger with Jullian Assange was filmed in the Embassy of Ecuador in London – where Assange is a political refugee – and broadcast on November 5. ***

John Pilger:

What’s the significance of the FBI's intervention in these last days of the U.S. election campaign, in the case against Hillary Clinton?

Julian Assange:

Inside the invisible government: John Pilger on war, propaganda and the US presidential race

John Pilger — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 11:00:00 +1100

The American journalist, Edward Bernays, is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda.

The nephew of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psycho-analysis, it was Bernays who coined the term "public relations" as a euphemism for spin and its deceptions.

In 1929, he persuaded feminists to promote cigarettes for women by smoking in the New York Easter Parade - behaviour then considered outlandish. One feminist, Ruth Booth, declared, "Women! Light another torch of freedom! Fight another sex taboo!"