One of the greatest documentaries ever made is to be given a rare
screening in Britain. John Pilger reveals how The Battle Of Chile
records Pinochet’s crimes against humanity.
The response of Britain’s media to the conspiracy in Venezuela provided an object lesson in how censorship works in free societies
Last month, I wrote about Venezuela, pointing out that little had
been reported in this country about the achievements of Hugo Chavez and
the threat to his reforming government from the usual alliance of a
corrupt local elite and the United States.
We all have a choice
When Bush and Blair begin their illegal and immoral attack on a country that offers us no threat, we all have a choice.
John Pilger warns that the documentary form is an endangered species
Writing in The Independent, John Pilger says that, in survey after
survey, when people are asked what they want more of on television, they
say documentaries – especially those that make make sense of news.
Universal justice is not a dream
In an article for the Melbourne Age, John Pilger says that with the
the establishment of an International Criminal Court, the promise of
universal justice is no longer far-fetched.
The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
Writing in the Guardian, John Pilger reviews what he describes as a
‘spell-binding’ new documentary, S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine,
directed by the Cambodian film-maker, Rithy Panh.
America’s new enemy
Latin Americans have spent the past few years finding their voices.
Now they may have the strength to defy their northern neighbour.
Fighting Fascism, then and now
At an extraordinary memorial event in London for the International
Brigades who went to the aid of the Spanish people in the late 1930s,
John Pilger paid tribute to the ‘brigaders’.
How the Anglo-American elite shares its ‘values’
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes
the origins and ‘shared values’ of the British-American Project for a
Successor Generation, founded in 1983 by Ronald Reagan with support from
Rupert Murdoch. Today’s BAP meets every year alternately in the US and
Britain and includes scientists, economists, community leaders and
journalists, a number of them liberals or ‘on the left’.
Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger examines the spectacle of the Murdoch scandal and its cover for a system that welcomed Rupert Murdoch’s “rapacious devotion to the free market”.
