A celebration of the life and legacy of John Pilger, whose journalism and films took on power, uncovered hidden agendas and gave voice to the voiceless across the world
LATESTJOHN PILGER DIED ON 30th DECEMBER 2023. THIS NEW WEBSITE IS A TRIBUTE TO HIS LIFE AND WORK, WHICH WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN MARK CURTIS PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE JOURNALISM AND FILM-MAKING OF THE LATE JOHN PILGER Mark Curtis / – Tributes – September 2, 2024 “A giant of journalism” was how Britain’s National Union […]
In a keynote speech at the ‘The Power of the Documentary’ festival he curated, John Pilger described the ‘noise’ of the media, its integration into national security aims of western states and its silencing effect across journalism, film-making, the arts. Over ten days, 26 documentaries, many of them rare and prescient, such as ‘Hearts and Minds’ and ‘The War Game’, ‘The Quiet Mutiny’ and ‘Stealing a Nation’, were screened to audiences at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Riverside Theatres.
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.
Reporting from New York, John Pilger describes the re-writing of the history of the Vietnam War in the 10-part television series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Millions died “in good faith”, they say. And so yet more wars are justified – as President Trump tells the world he is prepared to “totally destroy” North Korea and its 25 million people.
In London, John Pilger launched ‘The WikiLeaks Files: the World According to the US Empire’, with an introduction by Julian Assange.
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger reports on how the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, seeks to regain his lost popularity with an outback circus in which he performs in the role of war leader.
In his latest essay, John Pilger describes the liberal “one-way, legal/moral screen” behind which great power and its Orwellian propaganda ensure an impunity for war and deception, dependent on what Leni Riefenstahl called our “submissive void”.
John Pilger describes how the upheaval in the Ukraine is no different, in principle, from other US-engineered coups, including the least known of all – in Australia.
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 his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger steals a march on the Oscars with the ‘celebrity Oscars’ – ‘those whose ubiquitous self promotion demands recognition’.
