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JOHN PILGER: Silencing the Lambs — How Propaganda Works
JOHN PILGER: Silencing the Lambs — How Propaganda Works Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done. Leni Riefenstahl, center, filming with two assistants, 1936. (Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons) In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, […]
Three Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine
Three Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, and Chris Hedges have lent their expertise to the subject of the war in Ukraine with some recent comments that help bring some much-needed clarity to an often confusing and always contentious issue. Here they […]
John Pilger: A Judicial Kidnapping
John Pilger: A Judicial Kidnapping Julian Assange’s High Court judges offered no mitigation, no suggestion that they had agonised over legalities or even basic morality, writes John Pilger. “Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us” –- Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre’s words should echo in all our minds […]
John Pilger: The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange
John Pilger: The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange The extradition hearing beginning this week is the final act of an Anglo-American campaign to bury Julian Assange. It is not due process. It is due revenge, said John Pilger in a speech Monday outside the court building. Having reported the long, epic ordeal of Julian Assange, […]
“The Coming War On China” – Watch John Pilger’s Powerfully Relevant Documentary
“The Coming War On China” – Watch John Pilger’s Powerfully Relevant Documentary “The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable,” Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which you can watch […]
John Pilger: The Assange Arrest Is a Warning From History
John Pilger: The Assange Arrest Is a Warning From History That this outrage happened in the heart of London, in the land of Magna Carta, ought to shame and anger all who fear for “democratic” societies, writes John Pilger. The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem […]
John Pilger: The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies
John Pilger: 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, argues John Pilger. Travelling with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela. At a […]
Integrity Initiative And Affiliates Behind Multiple Attacks On Disobedient Media
Integrity Initiative And Affiliates Behind Multiple Attacks On Disobedient Media Last month, an anonymous hacking group published a slew of documents that revealed a vast operation by the Integrity Initiative and its parent group, the Institute for Statecraft. The organizations and their slew of affiliates sought to propagandize a Western audience by crafting false narratives, […]
Hold the Front Page, the Reporters are Missing
Hold the Front Page, the Reporters are Missing Photo Source Lisa Abitbol/Nieman Foundation for Journalism | CC BY 2.0 The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age of the reporter. Parry was “a trailblazer for independent journalism”, wrote Seymour Hersh, with whom he shared much in common. Hersh […]
Assange and Truth: the Deeper (Harder) Issue
Assange and Truth: the Deeper (Harder) Issue Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 When Harold Pinter got the Nobel Prize (2005), he described “a vast tapestry of lies upon which we feed”. He asked why “systematic brutality, widespread atrocities, ruthless suppression of independent thought” were well-known when they occurred in the Soviet Union. […]
Bringing Julian Assange Home
Bringing Julian Assange Home The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy. The Australian government and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull have an historic opportunity to decide which it will be. They can remain silent, for which history will be unforgiving. Or they can act in the interests of justice and […]
The Eerie Silence Surrounding the Assange Case
The Eerie Silence Surrounding the Assange Case Julian Assange remains cut off from the world in Ecuador’s London embassy, shut off from friends, relatives and thousands of supporters, leaving him unable to do his crucial work, as John Pilger discusses with Dennis J. Bernstein. In a recent communication between Randy Credico, an Assange supporter, comic […]
A Retrospective Look At The Work WikiLeaks Made Possible As Assange Remains Silenced
A Retrospective Look At The Work WikiLeaks Made Possible As Assange Remains Silenced An argument is only as good as the evidence it cites. For this reason, WikiLeaks embodies one the most significant information armories in existence. John Pilger spoke to this importance when he compared WikiLeaks with a mainstream press that he called nothing more […]
The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop
The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop We call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech. If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now. Citing […]
Mainstream Media and Imperial Power
Mainstream Media and Imperial Power Noted journalist and filmmaker John Pilger’s collection of work has been archived by the British Library, but deep-rooted problems of Western media create an increasingly difficult landscape for ethical journalism, as Pilger explained in an interview with Dennis Bernstein and Randy Credico. Emmy award-winning filmmaker John Pilger is among the […]
