Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done.
John Pilger: Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
Category: Film
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.
The Origins of Christmas
Today’s holiday culture wars continue an ancient struggle, as Nat Parry explores in this adaptation from his book, How Christmas Became Christmas: The Pagan and Christian Origins of the Beloved Holiday.
JOHN PILGER: We Are Spartacus
There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
WATCH: CN Live! — John Pilger & Ilan Pappé on Palestine
Israeli historian Ilan Pappé and journalist John Pilger joined CN Live! in July 2021 to discuss the Palestinian conflict and Pilger’s film Palestine Is Still the Issue, shown here in its entirety.
John Pilger: On CN’s Rare ‘Dynamism’ & ‘High Standards’
John Pilger, the great journalist, author and filmmaker, tweeted that he has “rarely known anything approaching the dynamism and high standards” of Consortium News, with its “real news and authentic ethics” and he urged the public to support its work.
Oppenheimer, Berkeley & the Bomb
Contrary to its public reputation, Tony Platt says the campus where he became an anti-war activist in the 1960s has always been one of academia’s premier beneficiaries of militarism.