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John Pilger grew up in Sydney, Australia. He has been a war correspondent, author and documentary film-maker. He is one of only two to win British journalism's highest award twice, for his work all over the world. On 1 November, he was awarded Britain's highest honor for documentary film-making by the Grierson Trustees, in memory of the documentary pioneer John Grierson.

He has been International reporter of the Year and a recipient of the United Nations Association Peace Prize and Gold Medal. In 2003, he received the prestigious Sophie Prize for "thirty years of exposing deception and improving human rights." In 2009, he was awarded Australia's international human rights award, the Sydney Peace Prize, "for his courage as a film-maker and journalist in enabling the voices of the powerless to be heard "."

For his documentary films, he has won an American television academy award, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award for a lifetime's work in factual broadcasting, awarded by BAFTA. His first film, The Quiet Mutiny, made in 1970 for Granada's World in Action, revealed the rebellion within the US Army in Vietnam that led to the American withdrawal. His 1979 documentary, the epic Cambodia Year Zero is credited with alerting the world to the horrors of the Pol Pot regime. Year Zero is ranked by the BFI as among the ten most important documentaries of the 20th century. His Death of a Nation, about East Timor, had a similar impact in 1994. He has made 58 documentary films.
He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Heroes and A Secret Country, The New Rulers of the World and Hidden Agendas. He is the editor of an anthology, Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs. His latest book is Freedom Next Time.

"John Pilger unearths, with steely attention to facts, the filthy truth and tells it as it is" -- Harold Pinter.

"John Pilger's work has been a beacon of light in often dark times. The realities he has brought to light have been a revelation, over and over again, and his courage and insight a constant inspiration." -- Noam Chomsky[

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Healthy Debate Requires Intelligence, From CreativeCommonsPhoto
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 8, 2022
Silencing The Lambs - How Propaganda Works Having soaked for 82 years in a deep bath of righteousness that is the official version of the last world war, isn't it time those who are meant to keep the record straight declared their independence and decoded the propaganda? The urgency is greater than ever.
WWImontage., From WikimediaPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 15, 2020
The Most Lethal Virus is not Covid, it is War. Some 400 American bases encircle China, "rather like a noose", a former Pentagon planner said to me. In South Korea, a missile system known as Terminal High Altitude Air Defense, or THAAD, is aimed point-blank at China across the narrow East China Sea.
The Jarrow March of 5--31 October 1936, also known as the Jarrow Crusade, was an organised protest against the unemployment and poverty suffered in the English town of Jarrow during the 1930s., From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 29, 2020
Britain's Class War On Children When I first reported on child poverty in Britain, I was struck by the faces of children I spoke to, especially the eyes. They were different: watchful, fearful.
John Pilger on Julian Assange, From YouTubeVideos
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 3, 2020
Assange 'forced' those behind war crimes 'to look in the mirror,' now faces revenge Assange exposed Western hypocrisy and discovered "too much truth," so his trial became a form of "revenge," journalist and filmmaker John Pilger told RT's Going Underground.
John Pilger -- On freedom of the press., From YouTubeVideos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 2, 2020
John Pilger: Eyewitness To The Agony Of Julian Assange John Pilger has watched Julian Assange's extradition trial from the public gallery at London's Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Str öm of Arena magazine, Australia:
If extradited to the US Julian Assange could get up to 170 years imprisonment., From YouTubeVideos
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 7, 2020
The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange; whose side are you on? Assange shamed his persecutors. He produced scoop after scoop. He exposed the fraudulence of wars promoted by the media and the homicidal nature of America's wars, the corruption of dictators, the evils of Guantanamo.
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 4, 2020
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 75: John Pilger -- Another Hiroshima is Coming -- Unless We Stop It Now Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target -- China.
March for the NHS - UK National Health Service, From FlickrPhotos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 30, 2020
Britain's Covid Suffering is a Crime Against Humanity A rational person would question why Britain has fared so badly in the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a rich country with the sixth largest economy in the world, a proud history of public health and a National Health Service (NHS) arising from the ashes of World War II. This forms the central pillar of the welfare state, providing universal, comprehensive care to all citizens irrespective of ability to pay.
Julian Assange, From YouTubeVideos
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 10, 2020
Freedom From Fear T.J. Coles interviews the world-renowned journalist and filmmaker, John Pilger, about the coronavirus crisis in the context of propaganda, imperialism, and human rights.
From InText
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Julian Assange Must be Freed, Not Betrayed On Saturday, there will be a march from Australia House in London to Parliament Square, the centre of British democracy. People will carry pictures of the Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange who, on 24 February, faces a court that will decide whether or not he is to be extradited to the United States and a living death.
Julian Assange arrested, From YouTubeVideos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 29, 2019
Visiting Britain's political prisoner Julian's intellect, resilience and wicked sense of humor all unknown to the low life who defame him are, I believe, protecting him. He is wounded badly, but he is not going out of his mind.
Julian Assange, From YouTubeVideos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 24, 2019
The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now Newspapers and other media in the United States, Britain and Australia have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the "Assange effect."
John Pilger -- Julian Assange Could Barely Speak in Court!, From YouTubeVideos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 26, 2019
Did This Happen in the Home of the Magna Carta? In a special comment written for Consortium News, John Pilger, legendary filmmaker, journalist and friend of Assange, describes the troubling scene inside a London courtroom this week where the WikiLeaks publisher appeared in his U.S. extradition case.
British National Health Service, From Uploaded
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 6, 2019
The Dirty War on the British National Health Service ...the NHS, the last bastion of a truly people's institution without which so many of us would stumble and fall and perhaps not survive...it's a warning...our National Health Service is being undermined and sold off: piece by precious piece...
ROGER WATERS TO PERFORM 'WISH YOU WERE HERE' FOR JULIAN ASSANGE OUTSIDE BRITAIN'S HOME OFFICE ON 2 SEPT., From InText
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 31, 2019
"Wish You Were Here" for Julian Assange On Monday, 2 September, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd will perform his classic 'Wish You were Here' outside the Home Office (interior ministry) on Marsham Street in the heart of London. I will be be speaking. Join us at 6pm in solidarity with Britain's political prisoner.
John Pilger, From InText
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 21, 2019
West's news dominated by Hong Kong while Yellow Vests largely ignored On this season finale special episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and film-maker John Pilger on a round-up of all the latest issues. John describes the current state of global affairs as in a state of world war, warning that the 'coming war on China' he warned about"
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange is facing extradition to the U.S. for conspiracy to hack into Defense Department computers in 2010., From YouTubeVideos
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 7, 2019
New Fears for Julian Assange Legendary journalist John Pilger has been to see Assange in Belmarsh Prison in London and his report is not encouraging.
Wikileaks, Julian Assange arrested, From YouTubeVideos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 12, 2019
The Assange arrest is a warning from history The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage. Six policemen manhandled a sick journalist, his eyes wincing against his first natural light in almost seven years.
Computer programmer and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, From YouTubeVideos
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 3, 2019
The prisoner says no to Big Brother The persecution of Julian Assange is the conquest of us all: of our independence, our self respect, our intellect, our compassion, our politics, our culture. So stop scrolling. Organize. Occupy. Insist. Persist. Make a noise. Take direct action. Be brave and stay brave. Defy the thought police.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 22, 2019
The war on Venezuela is built on lies Should the CIA stooge Guaido and his white supremacists grab power, it will be the 68th overthrow of a sovereign government by the United States, most of them democracies. A fire sale of Venezuela's utilities and mineral wealth will surely follow, along with the theft of the country's oil, as outlined by John Bolton.

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