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Press Gazette
March 20, 2018
Journalist John Pilger has described the poisoning of a Russian ex-double agent and his daughter in the UK as a “carefully constructed drama in which the media plays a role”. Pilger said the events surrounding Sergei and Yulia Skripal, who are still in a critical condition after being attacked with a nerveÃâà...
The Australian
March 18, 2018
As an item of TV gossip, it is irresistible. And everyone is talking about Seven director of programming Angus Ross and his blazing row with Seven West Media chief executive Tim Worner over the botched launch of Australian Spartan, which tanked and prompted Ross to storm off to Noosa for a week.
Truthdig
February 20, 2018
“Since 1945, by deed and by example,” the great Australian author, commentator and filmmaker John Pilger wrote nearly nine years ago: “The U.S. has ..... of humility and restraint”—a fascinating commentary on Fallujah, Hiroshima, the U.S. crucifixion of Southeast Asia, the “Highway of Death” and more.
Mintpress News (blog)
January 25, 2018
Emmy award-winning filmmaker John Pilger is among the most important political filmmakers of the 20th and 21st century. From Vietnam to Palestine to atomic war, Pilger's work has been on the cutting edge, and his stinging critique of western media has always be revelatory. And, no doubt, his bitingÃâà...
Press Gazette
January 24, 2018
The documentary filmmaker and war correspondent John Pilger has said his Guardian column was axed in a “purge” by the daily newspaper. Pilger's last article for The Guardian website, a piece on the treatment of Australian aboriginals, appeared in April 2015. He has continued to produce documentariesÃâà...
teleSUR English
December 11, 2017
Whenever young documentary film-makers ask me how they can “make a difference”, I reply that it is really quite simple. They need to break the silence. I first understood the power of the documentary during the editing of my first film, The Quiet Mutiny. In the commentary, I make reference to a chicken,Ãâà...
eNCA
November 13, 2017
CAPE TOWN - Internationally renowned journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger will be delivering a talk on the current political situation in ... In the British print media, Pilger worked at the Daily Mirror from 1963 to 1986 and wrote a regular column for the New Statesman magazine from 1991 toÃâà...
teleSUR English
October 20, 2017
Assange remains a political refugee from the war-making dark state of which Donald Trump is a caricature and Hillary Clinton the embodiment. On Oct. 16, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation aired an interview with Hillary Clinton: one of many to promote her score-settling book about why she was notÃâà...
Foreign Policy Journal (blog)
September 27, 2017
It's true, veteran journalist John Pilger concedes in the opening of his latest documentary film, The Coming War on China, that China has been trying to claim .... to viewers (as he rightly does with the statements of interviewed apologists for the American Empire), Pilger presents it as serious commentary.
RT
September 23, 2017
Journalist, film-maker and author, John Pilger is one of two to win British journalism's highest award twice. For his documentary films, he has won an Emmy and a British Academy Award, a BAFTA. Among numerous other awards, he has won a Royal Television Society Best Documentary Award. His epicÃâà...
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