In his latest essay, John Pilger evokes the US bombing of Cambodia in the 1970s, which gave rise to Pol Pot and the genocidal Khmer Rouge, in examining the rise of the equally fanatical ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the role of Western governments, and the urgent need for solutions that include a truce in Syria, and justice for the Palestinians.
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Biography
About John Pilger John Pilger was born and grew up in Bondi, Sydney, Australia. He launched his first newspaper at Sydney High School and later completed a four year cadetship with Australian Consolidated Press. “It was one of the strictest language courses I know,” he said. “Devised by a celebrated, literate editor, Brian Penton, the […]
In an age of ‘realists’ and vigilantes, there is cause for optimism
John Pilger marks the 40th anniversary of the crushing of social democracy in Chile by Augusto Pinochet and Henry Kissinger. He argues that Kissinger-style ‘realism’ set a double standard that is applied across the world, currently in the Middle East.
Dance on Thatcher’s grave, but remember there has been a coup in Britain
John Pilger describes reporting Margaret Thatcher’s many wars, at home and abroad, from the side of her enemies – such as miners and Vietnamese children. He argues that her acolytes ensure she ‘didn’t really die at all’.
East Timor: a lesson in why the poorest threaten the powerful
John Pilger returns to the once silent issue of East Timor, a tiny country rich in resources and ravaged by its neighbour, Indonesia, with the help of the Indonesian dictators western sponsors. And yet East Timor broke free. President Obama’s threats to China once again highlight the undeclared power of small, impoverished countries.
Blair has made Britain a target
The prime minister’s “we are at war” statements are irresponsible in
the extreme. It is said that some of his senior officials understand
this, as do many MPs: thus the messages of “restraint” now being
whispered to journalists.
Universal justice is not a dream
In an article for the Melbourne Age, John Pilger says that with the
the establishment of an International Criminal Court, the promise of
universal justice is no longer far-fetched.
The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
Writing in the Guardian, John Pilger reviews what he describes as a
‘spell-binding’ new documentary, S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine,
directed by the Cambodian film-maker, Rithy Panh.
In praise of the ‘subversive’ documentary
In an article for the Guardian, timed with a season of his own
documentaries at the Barbican, John Pilger pays tribute to ‘that most
powerful and subversive medium, the political documentary’ – ‘at its
best, fearless, and able to show the politically unpalatable and to make
sense of the news’ and he urges support for those, like ‘citizen’
documentary makers, who break through the insidious censorship of
‘current affairs’.
Fighting Fascism, then and now
At an extraordinary memorial event in London for the International
Brigades who went to the aid of the Spanish people in the late 1930s,
John Pilger paid tribute to the ‘brigaders’.
