In a wide-ranging interview with Dennis Bernstein on Radio KPFA’s Flashpoints, John Pilger talks about the wider meaning behind his new film, The Dirty War on the NHS; on America’s violent attempt to restore its dominance over Iran; and on the spectral fires that ravage his homeland, Australia, and are a warning to all of humanity.
VISITING BRITAIN’S POLITICAL PRISONER
I set out at dawn. Her Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh is in the flat hinterland of south east London, a ribbon of walls and wire with no horizon. At what is called the visitors centre, I surrendered my passport, wallet, credit cards, medical cards, money, phone, keys, comb, pen, paper.
THE LIES ABOUT ASSANGE MUST STOP NOW
Newspapers and other media in the United States, Britain and Australia have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the “Assange effect”.
It is as if the struggle of truth-tellers like Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning is now a warning to them: that the thugs who dragged Assange out of the Ecuadorean embassy in April may one day come for them.
Did this happen in the home of Magna Carta?
In a special comment written for Consortium News, John Pilger describes the disturbing scene inside a London courtroom last week when the WikiLeaks publisher, Julian Assange, appeared at the start of a landmark extradition case that will define the future of free journalism.
DO NOT FORGET JULIAN ASSANGE. OR YOU WILL LOSE HIM.
John Pilger has visited Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison, London. Follow John on twitter, especially this warning.
And watch the latest Going Underground interview with John Pilger as he discusses Julian Assange’s condition.
THE WARS ON JULIAN ASSANGE AND VENEZUELA: THE ASSAILANT IS THE SAME
In this interview with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, John Pilger discusses the issue of political and media disinformation that blights Julian Assange and Venezuela and whose source they – and much of the world – share as a common enemy.
THE ASSANGE ARREST IS A WARNING FROM HISTORY
John Pilger describes the meaning of Julian Assange’s brutal arrest at the Ecuadorean embassy in London and says it is not only the extraordinary story of one man’s struggle but an echo of a past that carries a lesson for us all.
THE AUSTRALIAN KILLER OF 50 PEOPLE IS THE PRODUCT OF A RACIST HISTORY OF DENIAL
The massacre by an Australian of 50 people is the product of a nation in denial of a history built on racism and violence, with racist prime ministers and a media dominated by Rupert Murdoch. Read this brilliant piece by Chris Graham.
THE PRISONER SAYS NO TO BIG BROTHER
John Pilger invokes George Orwell in calling on his compatriots to stand up for the freedom of ‘a distinguished Australian’, the founder and editor of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and for ‘real journalism of a kind now considered exotic’. Image © George Burchett 2019
VICTORY FOR THE CHAGOS ISLANDERS
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.
