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.
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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.
The Blair doctrine: blood and money
John Pilger describes how the distintegration of real and mythical
democracy in the United States influences British politics under Tony
Blair, such as the reduction of Parliament to a ‘craven talking shop’
and the promotion of war and ‘thoughtcrimes’.
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’.
The revolution will not be televised
As he launches a season of his films, John Pilger argues that, in
the age of Big Brother, television is no longer nurturing challenging
documentary-makers.
Our children are learning lies
In our schools, children learn that the US fought the Vietnam war
against a “communist threat” to “us”. Is it any wonder that so many
don’t understand the truth about Iraq?
The return of people power
John Pilger reaches behind the news of war and suffering and is inspired by the rise of popular resistance throughout the world: from Lebanon to Latin America, to an unprecedented level of political awareness in Britain.
The invisible government
In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has
become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its
founders, represents ‘an invisible government’.
The Kennedy myth rises again
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger recalls the
night Robert Kennedy was shot in his presence and the myths that
followed his untimely death. Having elevated Kennedy to be one of his
heroes, Prime Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown describes him as the
pinnacle of “morality” – when this myth really tells us about Brown
himself and his political twin, Tony Blair.
