John Pilger describes the power of advertising – from the effects of smoking to politics – as he reaches behind the facade of of the first 100 days President Barack Obama.
Smile on the face of the tiger
John Pilger de-codes the “historic” speech President Obama made in Cairo “reaching out to the Muslim world”, according to the BBC: in reality showing the seductive face of American power as it proceeds towards its unchanged goal.
Power, illusion and America’s last taboo
A transcription of John Pilger’s address to Socialism 2009 in San Francisco
Mourn on the fourth of July
John Pilger argues that while liberals now celebrate America’s return to its “moral ideals”, they are silent on a venerable taboo. This is the true role of Americanism: an ideology distinguished by its myths and the denial that it exists. President Obama is its embodiment.
War is peace. Ignorance is strength
John Pilger draws on George Orwell’s inspiration to describe the Call of Obama: “attractive to liberal sensibilities, if not to the Afghan children he kills”.
Welcome to Orwell’s world 2010
John Pilger draws on George Orwell’s prophetic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four to describe a superstate where truth and lies are indivisible, and peace is no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that, in the words of President Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, “extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan”.
Stealing A Nation
The plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base. One of John Pilger’s most remarkable documentaries, bringing a little-known story to a wide audience, is Stealing a Nation, about how British governments […]
Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror
An investigation into the discrepancies between the American and British justification for ‘War on Terror’ and the facts on the ground in Afghanistan and Washington DC. Six months after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and two years after the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, John Pilger’s documentary Breaking the Silence: Truth and […]
Burp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War
A look at the worldwide struggle for soft drink supremacy This is a funny, almost satirical film. Inspired by Jill Chen Louis’s book The Cola Wars, John Pilger’s Burp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War (1984) tells the story of the struggle between ‘those giants of carbonation and regurgitation, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola’ – […]
Mr. Nixon’s Secret Legacy
Counterforce: the prosecution of a flexible, acceptable nuclear war. “For the first time since the beginning of the atomic age almost 30 years ago, the United States formally and quietly abandoned its policy of Ultimate Nuclear Deterrent… [and] is now prepared not merely to deter its enemies by the threat of annihilation, but to actually […]
