Julian Assange should never have been jailed and tortured for helping Chelsea Manning expose United States war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their freedom means听the West is failing to silence dissent.
John Pilger
John Pilger should be remembered and honoured not just for his impressive body of work, but for being a brave听鈥斕齛nd听at times near-lone 鈥 voice for truth against power, write Peter Boyle and Pip Hinman.
John Pilger asks, isn鈥檛 it time those who are meant to keep the record straight declared their independence and decoded the propaganda?
Filmmaker and author John Pilger spoke to his 2002 documentary comparing Israel鈥檚 occupation of Palestine to South Africa's听brutal apartheid regime, reports Rachel Evans.
Solidarity Party of Afghanistan member Shayaan听discusses听the nearly two-decade-long war in Afghanistan.
鈥淎t a time of an information onslaught, the critical differences between fact and fiction are blurred,鈥 says radical filmmaker John Pilger of the 鈥淧ower of the Documentary: Breaking the Silence鈥 festival he is curating in Sydney from November 28 to December 9.
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.
The United States submarine captain says: 鈥淲e鈥檝e all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you鈥檙e never ready, because you don鈥檛 know when it鈥檚 coming.
鈥淲ell, now we do know and there鈥檚 nothing to be done about it.鈥
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
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.
鈥淎rabs", they said, 鈥渘omads鈥. The words were almost spat out.
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 鈥 some would say, billions of dollars in reparations. Australia should hand over, unconditionally, all royalties collected since Evans toasted Suharto鈥檚 dictatorship while flying over the graves of its victims.
鈥淭he United States has almost 1000 military bases around the world, covering every continent, every ocean,鈥 filmmaker John听Pilger听says. 鈥淐hina has one!鈥澨
He points out: 鈥淭he US Pacific Command in Hawaii claims responsibility for 52% of the Earth鈥檚 surface.鈥
The Coming War On China
Written & directed by John Pilger
http://thecomingwarmovie.com
Screening now, visit site for details
The Coming War on China is possibly John Pilger鈥檚 best film in years.
In classic Pilger style, the Australian-born filmmaker 鈥 responsible for dozens of films critical of great power 鈥 depicts the threat the US war machine poses in the Asian region in the context of the rise of China.
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