In an essay for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes his return to Vietnam, whose war he reported for almost a decade. He finds old friends, their spirit unchanged, and asks if Vietnam’s independence, for which millions died, is now under threat from the conditions of its membership of the “international community”.
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The price of Vietnam being allowed to come out of isolation was the destruction of its health services
In reporting Bill Clinton’s visit to Vietnam, the BBC’s diplomatic correspondent declared that what the Vietnamese needed was “more economic growth”. The question begged: why send a reporter all the way to Hanoi when the British ambassador would have happily propagated this line?
Vietnam Now
John Pilger reported the Vietnam War for a decade, right up until the last day. Twenty years on he returns to find a country facing a new battle. This time there are no bombs and there is no napalm. But already the civilian casualties are mounting again.
US foreign policy has not changed since Vietnam and, potentially, it is more dangerous than ever
The other day, an Indonesian friend took me to his primary school where,in October 1965, his teacher was beaten to death, suspected of being a communist.
Bush’s Vietnam
Once more, we hear that America is being “sucked into a quagmire”. The rapacious adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan are going badly wrong.
Vietnam: The Last Battle
Twenty years after the Vietnam War, Pilger returns to the country to investigate the country’s latest battle against economic slavery. “This film is not just about an anniversary, but will try to rescue something of Vietnam’s past and present, from Hollywood images that have pitied the invader while overshadowing one of the epic national struggles […]
Do You Remember Vietnam
Three years after the fall of Saigon, Pilger returns to examine the new regime. “Do you remember Vietnam? Do you remember all those television pictures of far-away suffering, of reporters shouting over the noise of meaningless battles. Vietnam ran longer than Z Cars and at times had popularity ratings even higher than Kojak… Some nostalgia […]
Vietnam: Still America’s War
Investigating the aftermath in Vietnam following the ceasefire. “This film is not about day-to-day slaughter of soldiers. It’s about the continuing and growing and forgotten suffering of the Vietnamese people in what is still, almost incredibly, America’s war.” For the first film in the Pilger series, made by ATV for the ITV network, John Pilger […]
Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
The incredible account of the break-up of the US military in Vietnam John Pilger’s first film, The Quiet Mutiny, made in 1970 for the British current affairs series World in Action, broke the sensational story of insurrection by American drafted troops in Vietnam. In his classic history of war and journalism, The First Casualty, Phillip […]
MARK CURTIS PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE JOURNALISM AND FILM-MAKING OF THE LATE JOHN PILGER
“A giant of journalism” was how Britain’s National Union of Journalists described John Pilger on his death in December 2023. And a giant he was – a brave and prolific film-maker and a brilliant reporter, with a rare gift for vivid, descriptive writing. But his greatest gift perhaps was in ‘lifting rocks’. In his dozens […]
