In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes a kind of war lover and war salesman (and woman) very different from the ‘almost endearing fools’ he has met in real wars.
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The real first casualty of war
Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US – and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
Rebel Journalism: The Writings of Wilfred Burchett
Foreworded by John Pilger, ‘Rebel Journalism’ is an anthology of the writing of Wilfred Burchett, one of the greatest journalists and war correspondents Australia has ever produced. Burchett published more than 30 books and this volume brings together extracts from most of these, spanning the entire breadth of his career, from before World War 2, […]
In The Name of Justice: The Television Reporting of John Pilger
Anthony Hayward presents the compelling story of the international crises tackled by John Pilger in over thirty years of television reporting. He examines Pilger’s prolific and dramatic television documentaries on subjects ranging from war in Vietnam to the aftermath of Pol Pot’s Cambodia, repression in the former Czechoslovakia, East Timor and Burma, continuing discrimination against […]
Heroes
First published in 1986, ‘Heroes’ is John Pilger’s classic work. With a new introduction, it is a vivid, engrossing and at times blackly amusing history and personal story covering the periods for which his journalism is renowned. The heroes of Pilger’s narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in […]
The Outsiders: Wilfred Burchett
John Pilger talks to Wilfred Burchett In the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the official lying began. The Allied occupation authorities banned all mention of radiation poisoning and insisted that the victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been killed or injured only by the atomic blast. ‘No radioactivity in […]
Aftermath
John Pilger and Anthony Barnett, in a series of vivid and often shocking reports, tell the story of two nations’ struggle to survive the aftermath of the Vietnam war. They un-make the myths constructed by Western propaganda and expose the scandal of the United Nations’ continuing recognition of Pol Pot as Cambodia’s legitimate ruler. This […]
The Mexicans
A report on political repression in Mexico. “The 10 per cent growth rate that the economists say that the oil will bring is meaningless while children work at the age of six, while their parents have no work at all, while millions live beside open sewers, while people are kidnapped for seeking their rights under […]
