A virulent if familiar censorship is about to descend on the US election campaign. As the cartoon brute, Donald Trump, seems almost certain to win the Republican Party’s nomination, Hillary Clinton is being ordained both as the “women’s candidate” and the champion of American liberalism in its heroic struggle with the Evil One.
A world war has begun. Break the silence.
In an address at the University of Sydney, John Pilger describes the beckoning danger of a nuclear war and the propaganda that smothers dissent.
The rape of East Timor: “Sounds like fun”
John Pilger, whose film, Death of a Nation, revealed the atrocities and political machinations that befell tiny East Timor reports on the discovery of documents that reminds us of the enduring piracy of great power.
Freeing Julian Assange: the last chapter
John Pilger describes a landmark judgement in the Julian Assange case that may see the WikiLeaks founder walk free after five years.
John Pilger on the Indigenous struggle: ‘There is no alternative now’
On 26 January 2016, John Pilger spoke at a rally at Sydney Town Hall on the hidden meaning of ‘Survival Day’.
AUSTRALIA’S DAY FOR SECRETS, FLAGS AND COWARDS
John Pilger describes the real meaning of ‘Australia Day’, a national day celebrated and mourned.
From Pol Pot to ISIS: The blood never dried
Following the ISIS outrages in Beirut and Paris, John Pilger updates this prescient essay on the root causes of terrorism and what we can do about it.
The revolutionary act of telling the truth
In London, John Pilger launched ‘The WikiLeaks Files: the World According to the US Empire’, with an introduction by Julian Assange.
JOHN PILGER’S FILM ‘CAMBODIA YEAR ZERO’ NAMED AS ONE OF ITV’S 60 GREATEST PROGRAMMES
On the 60th anniversary of the founding of ITV, Britain’s and Europe’s biggest commercial broadcaster, John Pilger’s groundbreaking film, ‘Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia’, has been named as one of the network’s 60 top programmes.
‘Cambodia Year Zero’, as it became known, was credited with alerting the world to the suffering of the people of Cambodia under the fanatical regime of Pol Pot. It raised tens of millions of pounds for Cambodia’s children – mostly unsolicited – and became the most watched documentary throughout the world.
Watch the film and read John Pilger’s account in his anthology ‘Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs’.
Julian Assange: La historia no contada de una lucha épica por la justicia
Ésta es una versión actualizada de la investigación de John Pilger en 2014, que describe la historia de la que no se ha escrito sobre una campaña implacable en Suecia y los Estados Unidos de América para denegar acceso a la Justicia a Julian Assange y silenciar a Wikileaks.
