The International Court of Justice in The Hague has handed down a momentous judgement that says Britain’s colonial authority over the Chagos Islands is no longer legal. John Pilger, whose 2004 film, Stealing a Nation, alerted much of the world to the plight of the islanders, tells their story here.
CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF MARTHA GELLHORN, A TRUE JOURNALIST
In this BBC Radio 3 programme and podcast, the life and career of war correspondent and humanitarian Martha Gellhorn is celebrated, introduced by her friend John Pilger.
THE SYMBOL OF A NEW YEAR IS THE COURAGE TO RESIST, OR IT OUGHT TO BE
Visiting Julian Assange; Trump and the Cold Warriors; Palestine; the war on healthcare. John Pilger talks to Dennis Bernstein on Radio Pacifica’s Flashpoints about the struggles and dangers of the year ahead. (Image: on the beach in Gaza)
THE NEW COLD WAR HAS TURNED JOURNALISM INTO SATIRE
In two separate major interviews – the first published in India’s leading news magazine, Frontline, the second broadcast on RT – John Pilger describes the rise of a second cold war and the conversion of much of journalism to unconscious satire – ‘beckoning a real, unreported danger’.
JOHN PILGER’S CALL TO ‘BREAK THE SILENCE’ AT THE POWER OF THE DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL IN SYDNEY
In a keynote speech at the ‘The Power of the Documentary’ festival he curated, John Pilger described the ‘noise’ of the media, its integration into national security aims of western states and its silencing effect across journalism, film-making, the arts. Over ten days, 26 documentaries, many of them rare and prescient, such as ‘Hearts and Minds’ and ‘The War Game’, ‘The Quiet Mutiny’ and ‘Stealing a Nation’, were screened to audiences at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Riverside Theatres.
Sixty dead in Gaza and the end of Israeli conscience
On the night of the Palestinians’ slaughter, Zion exulted an embassy and a Eurovision. It’s difficult to think of a more atrocious moral eclipse.
PALESTINE IS STILL THE ISSUE – WATCH THE JOHN PILGER FILM THAT DEFIED A CAMPAIGN TO BAN IT AND TOLD A TIMELESS TRUTH
John Pilger’s 2002 film Palestine Is Still The Issue bore the same title as his film 24 years earlier. Shown on ITV in Britain and around the world, the film and Pilger were attacked by a virulent trolls’ campaign in the US, including death threats, and finally vindicated by the Independent Television Commission as a work of “thoroughness and historical integrity”. With the present-day massacre of Palestinians by Israeli snipers on the border with Gaza the film tells a timeless truth. You can watch it here.
Watch also The War You Don’t See (2013) for how the Palestinians and their Israeli occupiers are reported in the media.
And read Gideon Levy, a rare voice in Israel, on the Israeli slaughter in Gaza.
THE ISOLATION OF JULIAN ASSANGE IS THE SILENCING OF US ALL
In this letter, twenty-seven 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.
THE ‘CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED DRAMA’ OF THE LATEST ANTI-RUSSIA CAMPAIGN
Watch John Pilger in this commentary on the British Government’s accusations against Russia over the poisoning of the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, not far from the Porton Down facility where chemical weapons are developed.
