Articles by John Pilger
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John Pilger, on the Betrayers of Julian Assange
John Pilger | New Matilda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
More than a decade on from his forced asylum and subsequent torture in 2012 at the hands of British and US authorities, Julian Assange remains abandoned by his own government and the media.
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We Are Spartacus
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
9 Nov 2023 – There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
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The Coming War Shrouded in Propaganda: Time to Speak Up
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
1 May 2023 – John Pilger recalls the ‘electric’ opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’ as the two greatest powers draw closer to armed conflict.
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John Pilger Speaks about Julian Assange in Sydney 10 Mar 2023
John Pilger - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023 – Australia, the ultimate betrayer of Julian Assange.
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John Pilger’s 2014 Warning about Ukraine
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
24 Sep 2022 – In an article on May 13, 2014 in The Guardian, republished here, John Pilger warned the “U.S. is threatening to take the world to war” over Ukraine, words that have taken on new meaning.
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Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
8 Sep 2022 – In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.
→ read full articleHiroshima at 77: Another Hiroshima Is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target: China.
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The US Is ‘Close to Getting Its Hands on Julian Assange’
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
26 July 2022 – In an interview with Oscar Grenfell of the World Socialist Website, John Pilger explains the latest manoeuvres by the US and UK authorities to extradite Julian Assange, journalist and publisher, to the US where he faces 175 years in prison for the crime of journalism.
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‘This Is a War of Propaganda’
John Pilger | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
10 Jul 2022 – John Pilger on Ukraine and Assange: 20 minutes of truth… and a pretty sweet ending.
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War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the US and Britain. On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are nurtured. The model is corporate spin, the currency of the age. In 1964, Marshall McLuhan famously declared, “The medium is the message.” The lie is the message now.
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The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
14 Dec 2021 – In the crudest, most political judgement in memory, two High Court judges in London have ordered the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, where a trial in a kangaroo court awaits him, followed by a life lost in a barbaric prison system.
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John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
1 Nov 2021 – Following the final High Court hearing to decide whether or not Julian Assange is to be extradited to the United States – for the ‘crime’ of revealing a landscape of government crimes and lies — John Pilger looks back on the decade Assange has been fighting for his freedom, and the implications for independent journalists and the very notion of justice.
→ read full articleCatastrophe in Afghanistan: U.S. Wrecks another Country Thinking It’s Playing the ‘Great Game’
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
24 Aug 2021 – As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed.
→ read full articleJohn Pilger: A Day in the Death of British Justice
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – The veteran journalist has covered Julian Assange’s case from the beginning and was in London this week to witness the latest shameful episode. “The reputation of British justice now rests on the shoulders of the High Court in the life or death case of Julian Assange.” Here is his dispatch.
→ read full articleThe Most Lethal Virus Is Not Covid–It Is War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – John Pilger describes the invisible weapon of past and current wars, and the threat of nuclear war, under cover of the Covid pandemic. This is propaganda, aided by censorship by omission.
→ read full articlePalestine Is Still the Issue
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
‘What has changed,’ says Pilger on his return to film his 2002 documentary, ‘is that the Palestinians have fought back. Stateless and humiliated for so long, they have risen up against Israel’s huge military regime, although they themselves have no army, no tanks, no American planes and gunships or missiles… For [them], the overriding, routine of terror, day after day, has been the ruthless control of almost every aspect of their lives, as if they live in an open prison.’
→ read full articleEyewitness to the Trial and Agony of Julian Assange
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
2 Oct 2020 – John Pilger has watched Julian Assange’s extradition trial from the public gallery at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia.
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John Pilger outside the Old Bailey Court on Julian Assange’s Trial
John Pilger | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Veteran investigative journalist and filmmaker John Pilger delivered this speech outside London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court on 7 Sep 2020, the first day of resumed show-trial proceedings for the extradition of Julian Assange to the USA. Pilger, along with a number of other journalists and human rights activists, was denied access to the court.
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The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange. Whose Side Are You On?
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
Sep 2020 – When I first met Julian Assange more than ten years ago, I asked him why he had started WikiLeaks. He replied: “Transparency and accountability are moral issues that must be the essence of public life and journalism.” I had never heard a publisher or an editor invoke morality in this way.
→ read full articleAnother Hiroshima Is Coming… Unless We Stop It Now
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
3 Aug 2020 -In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from five ‘ground zeros’ for nuclear weapons – from Hiroshima to Bikini, Nevada to Polynesia and Australia. He warns that unless we take action now, China is next.
→ read full articleA Pandemic Is Declared, but Not for the Starving, the Preventable Sick, the Blockaded, the Bombed
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
12 Mar 2020 – A pandemic has been declared, but not for the 24,600 who die every day from unnecessary starvation, and not for 3,000 children who die every day from preventable malaria, and not for the 10,000 people who die every day because they are denied publicly-funded healthcare, and not for the hundreds of Venezuelans and Iranians who die every day because America’s blockade denies them life-saving medicines, and not for the hundreds of mostly children bombed or starved to death every day in Yemen, in a war supplied and kept going, profitably, by America and Britain. Before you panic, consider them.
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Julian Assange Must Be Freed, Not Betrayed
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
On 24 FEBRUARY, Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange FACES A COURT to decide WHETHER OR NOT HE IS TO BE EXTRADITED TO THE UNITED STATES and a living death.
→ read full articleThe Lies about Assange Must Stop Now
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
24 Nov 2019 – Newspapers and other media in the United States, Britain and Australia have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the “Assange effect”. It is as if the struggle of truth-tellers like Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning is now a warning to them: that the thugs who dragged Assange out of the Ecuadorean embassy in April may one day come for them.
→ read full articleDid This Happen in the Home of Magna Carta?
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
28 Oct 2019 – The worst moment was one of a number of ‘worst’ moments. I have sat in many courtrooms and seen judges abuse their positions. This judge, Vanessa Baraitser – actually she isn’t a judge at all; she’s a magistrate – shocked all of us who were there. Her face was a progression of sneers and imperious indifference; she addressed Julian with an arrogance that reminded me of a magistrate presiding over apartheid South Africa’s Race Classification Board.
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Roger Waters to Perform ‘Wish You Were Here’ for Julian Assange Outside Britain’s Home Office on 2 Sep 2019
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
On Monday, 2 Sep, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd will perform his classic ‘Wish You Were Here’ outside the Home Office (Interior Ministry) on Marsham Street in the heart of London. I will be speaking. Join us at 6 p.m. in solidarity with Britain’s major political prisoner.
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We Are in a War Situation with China!
John Pilger | Going Underground – RT,
26 Aug 2019
22 Aug 2019 – John Pilger describes the current state of global affairs as in a state of world war, warning that the ‘coming war on China’ he warned about has now arrived. He also discusses the Hong Kong protests and US involvement in the unrest, the collapse of the INF Treaty and the beginning of a new arms race with Russia in Washington’s goal to break up the Russian Federation under Putin. He slams sanctions on Venezuela and Iran and also updates us on the condition of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, after he visited him recently in UK’s Belmarsh prison.
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The Assange Arrest Is a Warning from History
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
13 Apr 2019 – The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage. Six policemen manhandled a sick journalist, his eyes wincing against his first natural light in almost seven years. That this outrage happened in the heart of London, in the land of Magna Carta, ought to shame and anger all who fear for “democratic” societies.
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Room 101 Prisoner Says No to Big Brother
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
4 Mar 2019 – Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase where the books never change. The curtains are always drawn and there is no natural light. The air is still and fetid. This is Room 101. Before I enter Room 101, I must surrender my passport and phone. My pockets and possessions are examined. The food I bring is inspected. The man who guards Room 101 sits in what looks like an old-fashioned telephone box. He watches a screen, watching Julian.
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The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
In this analysis, John Pilger looks back over the Chavez years in Venezuela, including his own travels with Hugo Chavez, and the current US and European campaign to overthrow Nicolas Maduro in a ‘coup by media’ and to return Latin America to the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Hold the Front Page – The Reporters Are Missing
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
20 Sep 2018 – Hersh revealed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the secret bombing of Cambodia, Parry exposed Iran-Contra, a drugs and gun-running conspiracy that led to the White House. In 2016, they separately produced compelling evidence that the Assad government in Syria had not used chemical weapons. They were not forgiven.
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Australia: The Hidden History of the Women Who Rose Up
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – John Pilger gave this address on the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the Parramatta Female Factory, a prison where women convicts from mostly Ireland and England were sent in the early 19th century. Like all colonial societies, Australia has secrets. For a long time, the fact that many Australians came from what was called ‘bad stock’ was a secret.
→ read full articleThe Coming War on China [full film free online]
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
‘The Coming War on China’ is John Pilger’s 60th film. Pilger reveals what the news doesn’t: that the world’s greatest military power, the United States, and the world’s second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, are on the road to war. The film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance.
→ read full articleThe Urgency of Bringing Julian Assange Home
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
18 Jun 2018 – This is an abridged version of an address by John Pilger to a rally in Sydney, Australia, to mark Julian Assange’s six years’ confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
→ read full articlePilger: Palestine Is Still the Issue
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Watch the John Pilger Film That Defied a Campaign to Ban It and Told a Timeless Truth
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The Isolation of Julian Assange Is the Silencing of Us All
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
1 Apr 2018 – In this letter, twenty-eight writers, journalists, film-makers, artists, academics, former intelligence officers and democrats call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech. If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now.
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Why the Documentary Must Not Be Allowed to Die
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
11 Dec 2017 – “When the truth is replaced by silence,” wrote the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, “the silence is a lie.” Whenever young documentary film-makers ask me how they can “make a difference”, I reply that it is really quite simple. They need to break the silence.
→ read full articleClinton, Assange and the War on Truth
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – Wading through the Clinton book, What Happened, is an unpleasant experience, like a stomach upset. Smears and tears. Threats and enemies. “They” (voters) were brainwashed and herded against her by the odious Donald Trump in cahoots with sinister Slavs sent from the great darkness known as Russia, assisted by an Australian “nihilist”, Julian Assange.
→ read full articleThe Rising of Britain’s ‘New Politics’
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
As the Tories plot to get rid of Prime Minister Theresa May, John Pilger analyses the alternative Labour Party, specifically its foreign policy, which may not be what it seems.
→ read full articleThe Facts about U.S. War on Vietnam
Films by John Pilger – Information Clearing House,
2 Oct 2017
29 Sep 2017 – None of these films was shown in the USA. This is an abridged version of an address, “Reporting War and Empire”, by John Pilger at Columbia University, New York, in company with Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass. Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US – and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
→ read full articleThe Killing of History
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
Reporting from New York, John Pilger describes the re-writing of the history of the Vietnam War in the 10-part television series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Millions died “in good faith”, they say. And so yet more wars are justified – as President Trump tells the world he is prepared to “totally destroy” North Korea and its 25 million people.
→ read full articleOn the Beach 2017: The Beckoning of Nuclear War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
These lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem The Hollow Men appear at the beginning of Nevil Shute’s novel On the Beach, which left me close to tears. Published in 1957 at the height of the Cold War when too many writers were silent or cowed, it is a masterpiece. At first the language suggests a genteel relic; yet nothing I have read on nuclear war is as unyielding in its warning. No book is more urgent.
Palestine Is Still the Issue
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
The remarkable Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions campaign is succeeding, day by day; cities and towns, trade unions and student bodies are endorsing it. These are not straws in the wind. 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. We shouldn’t forget Palestine.
→ read full articleGetting Julian Assange: The Untold Story
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
20 May 2017 – Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish state’s collusion with the United States in its crimes of war and “rendition”.
→ read full articleThe Universal Lesson of the Courage of East Timor
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
On 5 May 2017, John Pilger was presented with the Order of Timor-Leste by East Timor’s Ambassador to Australia, Abel Gutteras, in recognition of his reporting on East Timor under Indonesia’s brutal occupation, especially his landmark documentary film, Death of a Nation: the Timor Conspiracy. This was John Pilger’s response.
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The Coming War on China
John Pilger | The Big Picture - Russia Today,
15 May 2017
Thom Hartmann talks with author and filmmaker John Pilger about his new documentary “The Coming War on China” and the military escalation that could lead World War III.
→ read full articleAustralia Beckons a War with China
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Australia is sleep-walking into a confrontation with China, not realizing that wars can happen suddenly in an atmosphere of mistrust and provocation, especially if a minor power, like Australia, abandons its independence for an “alliance” with an unstable superpower.
→ read full articleThe Issue Is Not Trump – It Is Ourselves
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2017
The lies about Russia – in whose elections the US has openly intervened – have made the world’s most self-important journalists laughing stocks. In the country with constitutionally the freest press in the world, free journalism now exists only in its honourable exceptions. The obsession with Trump is a cover for many of those calling themselves “left/liberal”, as if to claim political decency. They are not “left”, neither are they especially “liberal”.
→ read full articleThe Coming War on China
John Pilger – New Internationalist Magazine,
5 Dec 2016
A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger raises the alarm on an under-reported and dangerous provocation.
→ read full articleInside the Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton & Trump
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Double standard, essence of propaganda: The current siege of the city of Mosul by the government forces of Iraq, who are backed by the United States and Britain vs the siege of Aleppo by the government forces of Syria, backed by Russia. One is good; the other is bad. Both cities would not be occupied by the same fanatics and ravaged by war if Britain and the United States had not invaded Iraq in 2003.
→ read full articleProvoking Nuclear War by Media
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
This obeisance to the United States and its collaborators as a benign force “bringing good” runs deep in western establishment journalism. It ensures that the present-day catastrophe in Syria is blamed exclusively on Bashar al-Assad, whom the West and Israel have long conspired to overthrow, not for any humanitarian concerns, but to consolidate Israel’s aggressive power in the region.
→ read full articleWhy the British Said No to Europe
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 – The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.
→ read full articleSilencing America as It Prepares for War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
As the U.S. government plunges toward war with nuclear-armed Russia and/or China, there is an unsettling silence — or unnerving consensus — regarding the potential extinction of human existence. In 2009, Obama promised to help “rid the world of nuclear weapons” and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. No American president has built more nuclear warheads than Obama.
→ read full articleAustralia: The Dirty Secret of Utopia
John Pilger – Russia Today,
11 Apr 2016
The remote homelands are seen as an ideological threat, for they express a communalism at odds with the neo-conservatism that rules Australia and demands “assimilation.” It is as if the enduring existence of a people who have survived and resisted more than two colonial centuries of massacre and theft remains a spectre on white Australia: a reminder of whose land this really is.
→ read full articleA World War Has Begun. Break the Silence.
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
What has happened to the great tradition of popular direct action, unfettered to parties? Where are the courage, imagination and commitment required to begin the long journey to a better, just and peaceful world? Where are the dissidents in art, film, the theatre, literature? Where are those who will shatter the silence? Or do we wait until the first nuclear missile is fired?
→ read full articleThe Rape of East Timor: “Sounds like Fun”
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
25 Feb 20126 – Secret documents found in the Australian National Archives provide a glimpse of how one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century was executed and covered up. They also help us understand how and for whom the world is run. The documents refer to East Timor, now known as Timor-Leste, and were written by diplomats in the Australian embassy in Jakarta.
→ read full articleFreeing Julian Assange: The Last Chapter
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
5 Feb 2016 – One of the epic miscarriages of justice of our time is unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention – the international tribunal that adjudicates and decides whether governments comply with their human rights obligations – has ruled that Julian Assange has been detained unlawfully by Britain and Sweden.
→ read full articleAustralia’s Day for Secrets, Flags and Cowards
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
On 26 January, one of the saddest days in human history will be celebrated in Australia. The racism that allows this in one of the most privileged societies on earth runs deep. In the 1920s, a “Protector of Aborigines” oversaw the theft of mixed race children with the justification of “breeding out the colour”. Today, record numbers of Indigenous children are removed from their homes and many never see their families again.
→ read full articleFrom Pol Pot to ISIS: The Blood Never Dried
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
17 Nov 2015 – Following the ISIS outrages in Beirut and Paris, John Pilger updates this prescient essay on the root causes of terrorism and what we can do about it.
→ read full articleJohn Pilger’s Film ‘Cambodia Year Zero’ Named as One of ITV’s 60 Greatest Programmes
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
‘Cambodia Year Zero’, as it became known, was credited with alerting the world to the suffering of the people of Cambodia under the fanatical regime of Pol Pot. It raised tens of millions of pounds for Cambodia’s children – mostly unsolicited – and became the most watched documentary throughout the world.
→ read full articleThe Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth – WikiLeaks
John Pilger - TeleSur,
5 Oct 2015
These are dark times, in which the propaganda of deceit touches all our lives. It is as if political reality has been privatized and illusion legitimized. The information age is a media age–a surreal assembly line of cliches and false assumptions.
→ read full articleAssange: The Untold Story of an Epic Struggle for Justice
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The persecution of Julian Assange is about to flare again as it enters a dangerous stage. From August 20, three quarters of the Swedish prosecutor’s case against Assange regarding sexual misconduct in 2010 will disappear as the statute of limitations expires. At the same time Washington’s obsession with Assange and WikiLeaks has intensified.
→ read full articleThe Problem of Greece Is Not Only a Tragedy. It Is a Lie.
John Pilger - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
13 Jul 2015 – An historic betrayal has consumed Greece. Having set aside the mandate of the Greek electorate, the Syriza government has willfully ignored last week’s landslide “No” vote and secretly agreed a raft of repressive, impoverishing measures in return for a “bailout” that means sinister foreign control and a warning to the world.
→ read full articleAfter Three Years, the Injustice Handed Out to Julian Assange Must End
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Julian Assange is a refugee under international law and he should be given right of passage to Ecuador. The nonsense about him “jumping bail” is just that – nonsense. If his extradition case went through the British courts today, the European Arrest Warrant would be thrown out and he would be a free man.
→ read full articleThe Message of Anzac: Put Out More Flags, Or Shut Up
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
That a journalism professor of long standing, John Henningham, can tweet weasel words that “freedom of speech meant that journalists had the right to speak without breaking the law but did not have the right to keep their job when offending others” is a glimpse of the obstacles faced by aspiring young journalists as they navigate the university mills.
→ read full articleAustralia: The Secret Country Again Wages War on Its Own People
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Australia’s Racist Assault on Aboriginal People – They are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of years. In Western Australia, where mining companies make billion dollar profits exploiting Aboriginal land, the state government says it can no longer afford to “support” the homelands.
→ read full articleWhy the Rise of Fascism Is Again the Issue
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
In a major essay, John Pilger describes a ‘Faustian Pact’ that allows the suppression of a modern fascism in the West and its reliance on propaganda as news, and the beckoning of a war that rarely speaks its name.
→ read full articleThe Struggle of Venezuela against ‘A Common Enemy’
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
There are straightforward principles and dynamics at work here. Washington wants to get rid of the Venezuelan government because it is independent of US designs for the region and because Venezuela has the greatest proven oil reserves in the world and uses its oil revenue to improve the quality of ordinary lives.
→ read full article(Italiano) La guerra secondo i media e il trionfo della propaganda
John Pilger – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
15 Dec 2014
Perché così tanto giornalismo si è arreso alla propaganda? Perché la censura e l’alterazione delle notizie sono una pratica normale? Perché la BBC è così spesso un portavoce del potere rapace? Perché il New York Times e il Washington Post ingannano i loro lettori?
→ read full articleWar by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
5 Dec 2014 – Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers?
→ read full articleThe Siege of Julian Assange Is a Farce – A Special Investigation
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
John Pilger investigates the rise of WikiLeaks and the Kafkaesque saga that has enveloped its founder, Julian Assange, since he blew the whistle on the dangers and lies of great power and its courtiers.
→ read full articleFrom Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything That Flies on Everything That Moves”
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
In transmitting Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger’s murderous honesty.
→ read full article(Português) O Retorno de George Orwell
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Como despolitização, mídia submissa ao Estado e cinismo dos intelectuais estão produzindo, nas antigas democracias ocidentais, um ambiente “1984 high-tech”.
→ read full articleWar, Circus and Injustice Down Under
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
Australia is awash with knowledge of the “needs” of its first people. Every week, it seems, yet another study adds to the torrent of information about the imposed impoverishment of and vicious discrimination against Indigenous people: apartheid in all but name.
→ read full articleBreaking the Last Taboo – Gaza and the Threat of World War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Nothing has changed since the Zionists’ infamous “Plan D” in 1948 that ethnically cleansed an entire people. Recently, on the Times of Israel were the words: “Genocide is Permissible”. A deputy speaker of the Knesset demands a policy of mass expulsion into concentration camps. An MP, Ayelet Shaked, calls for the extermination of Palestinian mothers to prevent them giving birth to what she calls “little snakes”.
→ read full articleThe Return of George Orwell and Big Brother’s War on Palestine, Ukraine and the Truth
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
In everyday discourse, political language is turned on its head, as Orwell prophesised in ‘1984’. “Democracy” is now a rhetorical device. Peace is “perpetual war”. “Global” is imperial. The once hopeful concept of “reform” now means regression, even destruction. “Austerity” is the imposition of extreme capitalism on the poor and the gift of socialism for the rich: an ingenious system under which the majority service the debts of the few.
→ read full articleBreak the Silence: A World War Is Beckoning – In Ukraine, the US Is Dragging Us Towards War with Russia
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
Washington’s role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime’s neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world.
→ read full articleOnce Again, Australia Is Stealing Its Indigenous Children
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
21 Mar 2014 – Today, the theft of Aboriginal children – including babies taken from the birth table – is now more widespread than at any time during the last century. As of June last year, almost 14,000 Aboriginal children had been “removed”. This is five times the number when ‘Bringing Them Home’ was written.
→ read full article‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ War – And the Struggle of Memory against Forgetting
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Historians, like journalists, play their most honourable role when they myth-bust. The powerful would like us to believe that the likes of Thompson, Zinn and Galeano are no longer necessary: that we live, as Time magazine put it, “in an eternal present”, in which reflection is limited to Facebook and historical narrative is the preserve of Hollywood. This is a confidence trick.
→ read full articleThe Accessories to War Crimes Are Those Paid to Keep the Record Straight
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The media cover-up has been a weapon in the crimes of western states since the first world war. But a reckoning is coming for those paid to keep the record straight.
→ read full articleIn the Lucky Country of Australia Apartheid Is Alive and Kicking
John Pilger – The Guardian,
11 Nov 2013
The richest land on Earth writes Aboriginal people out of history and pushes them to the margins. Like South Africa 30 years ago.
→ read full articleWhy Bad Movies Keep Coming Out and What to Do About It
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
David Cameron saw the hyped ‘The Fifth Estate’ and declared: “Brilliant, fantastic piece of acting. The twitchiness and everything of Julian Assange is brilliantly portrayed.” Neither he nor the makers of this fiction have ever met Assange. Based on a dodgy, axe-grinding book, the DreamWorks juggernaut is a perfidious, unethical exploitation of a man fighting for his freedom, if not his life.
→ read full articleOld Game, New Obsession, New Enemy: The China Fixation
John Pilger - CounterPunch,
14 Oct 2013
Countries are “pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a great game for the domination of the world,” wrote Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in 1898. Nothing has changed. The shopping mall massacre in Nairobi was a bloody façade behind which a full-scale invasion of Africa and a war in Asia are the great game.
→ read full articleIn an Age of ‘Realists’ and Vigilantes, There Is Cause for Optimism
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Understanding Kissinger’s criminality is vital when trying to fathom what the US calls its “foreign policy”.
→ read full articleThe Modern Day Heroes of Investigative Journalism
John Pilger – Al Jazeera,
23 Sep 2013
John Pilger discusses the role of the media in the contemporary context of whistleblowers and war.
→ read full articleHow We Are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenced – And What to Do About It
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against the odds. There is no other way now. Direct action. Civil disobedience. Unerring. Read Percy Shelley – “Ye are many; they are few”. And do it.
→ read full articleForcing Down the Bolivian President’s Plane Was an Act of Piracy
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Imagine the aircraft of the President of France being forced down in Latin America on “suspicion” that it was carrying a political refugee to safety – and not just any refugee but someone who has provided the people of the world with proof of criminal activity on an epic scale.
→ read full articleUnderstanding the Latest Prism Leaks Is Understanding the Rise of a New Fascism
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, was an adviser to Condoleezza Rice, who lied that Saddam Hussein could attack the US with nuclear weapons. Cohen and Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt – they met in the ruins of Iraq – have co-authored a book, The New Digital Age, endorsed as visionary by the former CIA director Michael Hayden and the war criminals Henry Kissinger and Tony Blair.
→ read full articleAustralia’s Boom Is Anything But for Its Aboriginal People
John Pilger – The Guardian,
6 May 2013
The story of the first Australians is still poverty and humiliation, while their land yields the world’s biggest resources boom.
→ read full articleThe New Propaganda Is Liberal – The New Slavery Is Digital
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and asked her about her epic films that glorified the Nazis. She told me that the “messages” of her films were dependent not on “orders from above,” but on the “submissive void” of the German public. Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie? “Everyone,” she said. Today’s “message” of grotesque inequality, social injustice and war is the propaganda of liberal democracies. It is the ultimate means of social control because it is voluntary, addictive and shrouded in illusions of personal freedom.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Is a Rare Truth-Teller. Smearing Julian Assange Is Shameful.
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Public displays of warmth for Assange are common and seldom reported. Several thousand people packed Sydney Town Hall, with hundreds spilling into the street. In New York recently, Assange was awarded the Yoko Ono Lennon Prize for Courage. In the audience was Daniel Ellsberg, who risked all to leak the truth about the barbarism of the Vietnam War. “The US is out to crush someone who has revealed its dirty secrets.”
→ read full article(Italiano) La Vera Invasione dell’Africa e le False Ragioni dell’Occidente (Con l’Aiuto di Hollywood)
John Pilger – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
11 Feb 2013
E’ in corso un’invasione dell’Africa a tutto campo. Gli Stati Uniti stanno dispiegando truppe in 35 paesi africani, a cominciare da Libia, Sudan, Algeria e Niger. La notizia, riferita dall’Associated Press a Natale, non è apparsa su alcun canale mediatico anglo-statunitense.
→ read full articleThe Real Invasion of Africa Is Not News And a Licence to Lie Is Hollywood’s Gift
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
It is as if Africa’s proud history of liberation, from Patrice Lumumba to Nelson Mandela, is consigned to oblivion by a new master’s black colonial elite whose “historic mission”, warned Frantz Fanon half a century ago, is the promotion of “a capitalism rampant though camouflaged”.
→ read full articleAs Gaza Is Savaged Again, Understanding the BBC’s Historical Role Is Vital
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
In Peter Watkins’ remarkable BBC film, The War Game, which foresaw the aftermath of an attack on London with a one-megaton nuclear bomb, the narrator says: “On almost the entire subject of thermo-clear weapons, there is now practically total silence in the press, official publications and on TV. Is there hope to be found in this silence?”
→ read full article(Italiano) Mentre Gaza Subisce Nuova Violenza, Capire il Ruolo Storico della BBC Diventa Vitale
John Pilger – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
3 Dec 2012
Nell’eccezionale documentario di Peter Watkins, prodotto dalla BBC, The War Game, che immaginava le conseguenze di un attacco su Londra con una bomba nucleare da un megatone, la voce narrante dice: “Quando si parla di armi termonucleari, al momento c’è praticamente un totale silenzio nei media e in televisione. Ma c’è speranza in questo silenzio?”
→ read full articleThe Life and Death of an Australian Hero, Whose Skin Was The Wrong Colour
John Pilger –TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
I first met Arthur a generation ago and knew he was the best kind of trouble. He objected to the cruelty and hypocrisy of white society in a country where his people had lived longer than human beings had lived anywhere.
→ read full articleThe Liberal Way to Run the World – ‘Improve’ or We’ll Kill You
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
In his 1859 essay On Liberty, to which modern liberals pay homage, John Stuart Mill described the power of empire. “Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians,” he wrote, “provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.” The “barbarians” were large sections of humanity of whom “implicit obedience” was required.
→ read full articleThe Pursuit of Julian Assange Is an Assault on Freedom and a Mockery of Journalism
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2012
The British government’s threat to invade the Ecuadorean embassy in London and seize Julian Assange is of historic significance. The same brave newspapers and broadcasters that have supported Britain’s part in epic bloody crimes, from the genocide in Indonesia to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, now attack the “human rights record” of Ecuador, whose real crime is to stand up to the bullies in London and Washington.
→ read full articleBlair, Olympic Deals and the Glimpse of another Britain
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
In the New Statesman of 21 June, I reported an urgent appeal to Sebastian Coe, the former athlete who chairs the London Olympics Organising Committee, by the Vietnam Women’s Union that he and his IOC colleagues reconsider their decision to accept sponsorship from Dow Chemical, one of the companies that manufactured Agent Orange, a poison used against the population of Vietnam.
→ read full articleMurdoch May Be a Convenient Demon, but the Media Is a Junta
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
Murdoch’s dominance is not as it is often presented. Although he is now one of the West’s accredited demons, thanks to his phone-hackers, he is but part of a media system that will not change when his empire is broken up. The political extremism that is the concentration of the world’s wealth in few hands and the accelerating impoverishment of the majority will ensure this.
→ read full articleHistory Is the Enemy As ‘Brilliant’ Psy-Ops Become the News
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
History is buried with the dead and deformed of Vietnam and Bhopal. And history is the new enemy. On 28 May [2012], President Obama launched a campaign to falsify the history of the war in Vietnam. To Obama, there was no Agent Orange, no free fire zones, no turkey shoots, no cover-ups of massacres, no rampant racism, no suicides (as many Americans took their own lives as died in the war), no defeat by a resistance army drawn from an impoverished society.
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