John Pilger

The Outsider Among Us

January 8, 2024 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. Educate! History, John Pilger, Journalism, Media

In the spring of 1983, the late and greatly missed John Pilger began broadcasting a series of interviews called The Outsiders on British television. His subjects ranged widely. Costa–Gavras, Jessica Mitford, Seán MacBride, the Irish political figure and 1974 Nobelist Helen Suzman, the South African anti-apartheid activist. Pilger chose “people who have lived their lives outside the system,” as the Channel 4 tagline put it. My personal favorites among John’s interviewees, the ones who mean the most to me, were Wilfred Burchett and Martha Gellhorn, two of the 20th century’s most exceptional foreign correspondents.

Pilger’s Rap Sheet On The Criminal Elite

January 2, 2024 Kiji Noh, Consortium News. Educate! Documentary, Genocide, John Pilger, Media, Obituary

John Pilger was always on the side of the oppressed. He denounced Empire and all its violent predations – war, genocide, exploitation – as well as its endless lies and propaganda. Till his death on Saturday, he fought tirelessly for the freedom of Julian Assange, and his last article, “We are all Spartacus,” published in Consortium News, was a call to stand with the imprisoned publisher. Pilger gave voice to the invisible and the voiceless: the hungry, the poor, the handicapped, the conscripted, the sanctioned and bombed, the dispossessed, refugees, the chemically experimented on, the structurally adjusted, the couped, the famine-expendable, the colonized, the genocided, the silenced, shining a light in the hidden, dark recesses of the hell of Empire.

John Pilger’s 2014 Warning About Ukraine

September 25, 2022 John Pilger, Consortium News. Educate! John Pilger, NATO, Ukraine, US coup, US Imperialism

Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis”, as if the truth “never happened even while it was happening”. Every year the American historian William Blum publishes his “updated summary of the record of U.S. foreign policy” which shows that, since 1945, the U.S. has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used chemical and biological weapons; and attempted to assassinate foreign leaders. In many cases Britain has been a collaborator.

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