In this analysis, John Pilger looks back over the Chavez years in Venezuela, including his own travels with Hugo Chavez, and the current US and European campaign to overthrow Nicolas Maduro in a ‘coup by media’ and to return Latin America to the 19th and 20th centuries.
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.
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE. THE REPORTERS ARE MISSING
In his foreword to a powerful new book by David Edwards and David Cromwell, the founders and editors of Media Lens, Propaganda Blitz, John Pilger asks what happened to an age of eyewitness reporting and to journalism that relied on evidence.
THE TARGET IS ASSANGE AND WIKILEAKS, AND THE ROLE OF AUSTRALIA
Listen to John Pilger interviewed on KPFA by Dennis Bernstein and Randy Credico. Also, listen to this interview on Sputnik Radio.
JOHN PILGER ON A HIDDEN HISTORY OF WOMEN WHO ROSE UP
John Pilger describes a women’s rebellion in which his own ‘intractable’ forebear took part and which leads us to ask: where is such a spirit of resistance today?
THE URGENCY OF BRINGING JULIAN ASSANGE HOME
A salute to Julian Assange by Rogers Waters at his concert in Berlin on 3 June
In this address to mark Julian Assange’s six years of confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, John Pilger calls on the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, to recognise the urgency of decisive diplomatic action and bringing Assange home.
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.
