A celebration of the life and legacy of John Pilger, whose journalism and films took on power, uncovered hidden agendas and gave voice to the voiceless across the world
Do you trust the liberal media? While the tabloid and right-wing press – the Sun, The Times, the Mail and the Express – are constantly criticised for dangerous bias, outlets like the BBC and the Guardian are trusted by their readers to report in the interests of the public. However, the reality is that all […]
An updated edition of Anthony Hayward’s book about John Pilger’s films, ‘Breaking The Silence’, was published by Profiles International Media in November 2013 as an e-book, price £3.99. Hayward traces Pilger’s screen career, details the documentaries, their effects and controversies, and compares them with other factual output on TV and in the cinema. The update […]
Foreworded by John Pilger, ‘Rebel Journalism’ is an anthology of the writing of Wilfred Burchett, one of the greatest journalists and war correspondents Australia has ever produced. Burchett published more than 30 books and this volume brings together extracts from most of these, spanning the entire breadth of his career, from before World War 2, […]
Can a corporate media system be expected to tell the truth about a world dominated by corporations? Can newspapers tell the truth about catastrophic climate change – about its roots in mass consumerism and corporate obstructionism – when they are themselves profit-oriented businesses dependent on advertisers for 75 per cent of their revenues? Can the […]
John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, Denis Halliday, Rania Masri and others reveal why the US attacked Iraq in 1991 and imposed sanctions that took the lives of a million Iraqis. Arundhati Roy says: “Here is a brilliantly collated body of unrelenting, undeniable evidence of the horrors that the US government sanctions are visiting upon the people, in […]
Anthony Hayward presents the compelling story of the international crises tackled by John Pilger in over thirty years of television reporting. He examines Pilger’s prolific and dramatic television documentaries on subjects ranging from war in Vietnam to the aftermath of Pol Pot’s Cambodia, repression in the former Czechoslovakia, East Timor and Burma, continuing discrimination against […]
East Timor was brutally invaded and occupied by Indonesian military forces in 1975. According to the UN, this resulted in the death of about a third of the population through massacres, starvation and disease. Against a backdrop of growing popular and political support for the Timorese cause hastened by John Pilger’s documentary Death of a […]
‘The Media and the Kosovo Crisis’ is about a ‘good’ war that wasn’t, a ‘humanitarian intervention’ that was anything but. It offers an important corrective to the hysteria and misinformation that permeated media coverage of the war and analyses how the war was reported in different countries around the world, including the United States, Britain, […]
Texts of ten interviews from the Channel 4 series of programmes. Interviewees include Martha Gellhorn, David Williamson, Jessica Mitford, Wilfred Burchett, Costa Gavras, and Helen Suzman.
John Pilger and Anthony Barnett, in a series of vivid and often shocking reports, tell the story of two nations’ struggle to survive the aftermath of the Vietnam war. They un-make the myths constructed by Western propaganda and expose the scandal of the United Nations’ continuing recognition of Pol Pot as Cambodia’s legitimate ruler. This […]
