John Pilger’s address to the Logan Symposium, ‘Building an Alliance Against Secrecy, Surveillance & Censorship’, organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism, London, 5-7 December, 2014. You can also watch the address here
Breaking the last taboo – Gaza and the threat of world war
In this essay based on his Edward Said Memorial Lecture in Adelaide, John Pilger argues that the assault on Gaza represents a wider threat to us all, and with episodic dangers in Ukraine, and the accompanying propaganda, we are drawn closer to world war.
The siege of Julian Assange is a farce – a special investigation
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.
The return of George Orwell and Big Brother’s war on Palestine, Ukraine and the truth
In his latest essay, John Pilger describes the liberal “one-way, legal/moral screen” behind which great power and its Orwellian propaganda ensure an impunity for war and deception, dependent on what Leni Riefenstahl called our “submissive void”.
It’s the other Oscars – and yet again the winner slips away
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger steals a march on the Oscars with the ‘celebrity Oscars’ – ‘those whose ubiquitous self promotion demands recognition’.
Is media just another word for control?
John Pilger describes censorship in ‘free societies’ on a special edition of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme guest-edited by artist and musician PJ Harvey.
The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism
John Pilger describes the augmented Anglo-American government and media campaign against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador and remains in that country’s London embassy.
The new propaganda is liberal. The new slavery is digital.
John Pilger examines propaganda as not so much a conservative concept as a quintessentially liberal concept, an extremism that never speaks its name.
September 11 – why weren’t there similar outcries at earlier atrocities?
| This week saw the end of an exhibition I helped put on at the Barbican in London, devoted to photo-journalism that makes sense of terrible events. |
No news is slow news
In the latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how the obvious becomes invisible in today’s mainstream news agenda. The news that doesn’t make the front pages or the BBC bulletins is ‘slow news’. For example, the resistance to foreign power by the Palestinians, ordinary Iraqis and Afghans is ‘slow news’ while the internecine machinations of Bush and Blair is ‘regular news’.
