Celebrities are reluctant to criticize the U.S.-centralized empire because they benefit from it directly.
Caitlin Johnstone: The Silence of the Artists
Category: Film
WATCH: Death Penalty for Assange?
Australian Sen. David Shoebridge spoke of the danger of the death penalty for Julian Assange in this discussion after a Sydney screening of the new film, The Trust Fall. (w/transcript)
The Oscars Speech Smear Campaign
Jonathan Cook on the courtiers and charlatans who lied about what Jonathan Glazer said in his acceptance speech at the Academy Awards.
Pilger & the Palestinians
We lost a major voice in defense of the Palestinian people in the midst of a campaign to eradicate them from Gaza and drive them from the West Bank.
UK Covertly Plotted to Discredit John Pilger
In 1975, the Foreign Office’s secret Cold War propaganda unit, the Information Research Department, opened a file on the Australian journalist, John McEvoy reports.
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.
WATCH: Pilger on His Convict Ancestors & on Assange
Cathy Vogan interviewed John Pilger on Julian Assange in 2011, and filmed this 2016 talk about the Pilger family’s origins in Australia.
Pilger’s Rap Sheet on the Criminal Elite
The head of the British Independent Television Authority once called Pilger “a threat to Western Civilization.” Kiji Noh reports.
Tributes Pour in For John Pilger
From Jeremy Corbyn, WikiLeaks, Afshin Rattansi, Max Blumenthal, Jonathan Cook, Scott Ritter, Vijay Prashad, Glenn Greenwald, Tariq Ali, Matt Kennard, Roger Waters and more.
The World Has Lost John Pilger
One of the greatest journalists and filmmakers of any generation has died at age 84, his family announced on Sunday.