On the day a London judge decided the bail case against Julian Assange would not be dropped ‘in the public interest’, John Pilger in this interview described the background to the latest revelations of collusion between the Crown Prosecution Service and the Swedish authorities.
ROBERT PARRY 1949-2018, AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNALIST
John Pilger writes: Robert Parry, one of America’s greatest journalists, has died, tragically. He was 68. I had the privilege of honouring Bob Parry in London last June when I presented him with the 2017 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Bob’s work for the Associated Press and as founder and editor of consortiumnews.com was a beacon of principled, often courageous journalism in a landscape of compliant, distorted anti-journalism that now misrepresents our craft in the misnamed ‘mainstream’.
All of us at the prize-giving dinner were stunned by the power of his original thought, eloquence and historical understanding in the address he gave, off the cuff, in which he demystified and laid bare the rise of rapacious power in Washington. Following is a link to a fine eulogy by Bob’s son, Nat Parry. I ask readers to take up Nat’s suggestion and donate to Consortium News – https://consortiumnews.com/2018/01/28/robert-parrys-legacy-and-the-future-of-consortiumnews/ – and keep alive Bob Parry’s legacy, also described here in Dennis Bernstein’s tribute on Radio KPFA Berkeley, California.
WHY THE DOCUMENTARY MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO DIE
An edited version of an address John Pilger gave at the British Library on 9 December 2017 as part of a retrospective festival, ‘The Power of the Documentary’, held to mark the Library’s acquisition of Pilger’s written archive.
HOW THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA WERE MISLED AND CAN RISE AGAIN
Returning to South Africa, John Pilger delivers an inaugural lecture in Cape Town in memory of the anti-apartheid campaigner, Abdulhay Ahmed Saloojee. He asks why the struggle for freedom has yet to be won, why a form of apartheid still rules and why this oppression has become a model for much of the world in the 21st century.
You can also watch John Pilger’s 1999 film Apartheid Did Not Die on this website.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM PRIZE AWARDED BY MEXICO FOR JULIAN ASSANGE INTERVIEW
John Pilger has been awarded the International Journalism Prize by the Press Club of Mexico in the XLIV National and International Competition of Journalism, founded in 1951 by Antonio Saenz de Miera. The citation reads, “The exclusive interview with WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, through which international public opinion was able to ascertain the extent of the key issues of the current political situation [is] journalism that allows people to defend themselves against powerful, clandestine forces.”
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GRAHAM PILGER, CHAMPION OF THE DISABLED 1932-2017
I wrote this obituary of my brother Graham for the Sydney Morning Herald.
AS WAR IS THREATENED, ‘THE COMING WAR ON CHINA’ IS RELEASED IN CHINA, FREE ONLINE
John Pilger’s prescient new film, The Coming War on China, has attracted huge interest in China, understandably. The original film has been ‘pirated’ and one version includes Chinese subtitles. With the world now approaching the edge of possible nuclear war – with threats to North Korea, and China – John Pilger and Dartmouth Films UK have decided to release the Chinese sub-titled version (also English subtitled) to Chinese viewers, to be downloaded online free of charge.
In China only, you can watch The Coming War on China here – www.reelhouse.org/dartmouthfilms/the-coming-war-on-china
In this conversation with US economist and broadcaster Jerry Robinson, John Pilger describes the issues raised in The Coming War on China, and discusses Trump’s current threats to North Korea.
The Coming War on China is now available in the United States through Bullfrog Films. Contact John Hoskyns-Abrahall at john@bullfrogfilms.com. On Easter Sunday, April 16, The Coming War on China was broadcast nationally in Australia on the SBS Network and received this 5-star preview from Sydney Sun-Herald, the Melbourne Sunday Age and other Fairfax newspapers…
THE COMING WAR ON CHINA
***** 5 stars
Acclaimed journalist and human rights firebrand John Pilger stares down those who would defend America’s ongoing military presence in the Pacific at significant cost to the indigenous population. His expose of the atrocities still being committed there is just part of this far-reaching documentary about the relationship between the US and China since World War II, in light of recent inflammatory statements made by President Trump. Here are stories apparently left untold by the mainstream news media – fake or otherwise.
This latest John Pilger article, ‘Trump’s attack on Syria is a warning to China – and Australia’ appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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HOW THE LIBERAL CLASS ENABLED THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP
In a filmed interview with Afshin Rattansi, John Pilger describes how the collusion and silence of America’s ‘enlightened’ liberal elite, notably its journalists, helped create President Trump.
THE SECRETS OF THE US ELECTION: JULIAN ASSANGE TALKS TO JOHN PILGER
In this exclusive, revealing and moving filmed interview, Julian Assange discloses the truth behind the investigation of Hillary Clinton, and his own political refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London. The interview was filmed on 30 October 2016.
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INSIDE THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT: WAR, PROPAGANDA, CLINTON & TRUMP
In an address to the Sheffield Festival of Words, in Sheffield, John Pilger describes the ‘invisible’ and all-powerful role of media propaganda.
