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.

Watch John Pilger on RT’s Going Underground discuss the claims of Theresa May, Syria, Iran, Korea and the silencing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

You can also listen to Pilger’s interview about new attempts to push Assange out of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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You can also watch John Pilger’s 1999 film Apartheid Did Not Die on this website.