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John Pilger

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John Pilger

@johnpilger

A celebration of the life and legacy of John Pilger, whose journalism and films took on power, uncovered hidden agendas and gave voice to the voiceless.

London & Sydney

Joined October 2012

John Pilger
@johnpilger
Dec 31, 2023
It is with great sadness the family of John Pilger announce he died yesterday 30 December 2023 in London aged 84. His journalism and documentaries were celebrated around the world, but to his family he was simply the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad and partner. Rest In Peace.
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John Pilger
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Nov 5, 2023
When I was last in Gaza, the Israeli air force terrorised the population by flying fast and loud and low at night. All children bed-wetted and had violent nightmares, said a psychologist, and were 'damaged forever'. Such is Israel's exercise of its 'right to self defence'.
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John Pilger
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Jan 1, 2022
The contempt in which Britain's elite holds the public has never been more eloquently expressed than in the decision to award Tony Blair the highest order of knighthood. One million Iraqis dead, three million dispossessed, a trail of blood to 7/7. Rise Sir Tony!
John Pilger
@johnpilger
Dec 17, 2021
Recently I passed Tony Blair's £8million mansion in London's Connaught Square. It's an hour's bleak journey to Belmarsh prison, where Julian #Assange 'lives' in a small cell. This is Britain Christmas 2021: the war criminal rewarded, the truth-teller punished, perhaps to death.
John Pilger
@johnpilger
Sep 24, 2022
I wrote this for the Guardian in 2014 when the coup junta in Kiev declared war on its Russian-speaking population in the Donbass.
marie velenski
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Sep 24, 2022
Replying to @johnpilger
How right you were🤯 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
John Pilger
@johnpilger
Aug 7, 2019
Do not forget Julian #Assange. Or you will lose him. I saw him in Belmarsh prison and his health has deteriorated. Treated worse than a murderer, he is isolated, medicated and denied the tools to fight the bogus charges of a US extradition. I now fear for him. Do not forget him.
John Pilger
@johnpilger
Apr 11, 2019
The action of the British police in literally dragging Julian Assange from the Ecuadorean embassy and the smashing of international law by the Ecuadorean regime in permitting this barbarity are crimes against the most basic natural justice. This is a warning to all journalists.
John Pilger
@johnpilger
Apr 5, 2022
The US recently imposed 'sanctions' on Cambodia which is considered 'too friendly' with China. In the 1960s/70s the US dropped more bombs on Cambodia than during all of WW2. According to one study, 750,000 people were killed. No reparations were ever paid.
John Pilger
@johnpilger
Aug 26, 2018
The Guardian describes the late John McCain as a "war hero". As a pilot in Vietnam, McCain cravenly bombed a mostly undefended country of civilians. When he was skilfully brought down, his life was saved by the very people he was trying to harm. A true American plastic hero.
John Pilger
@johnpilger
Sep 1, 2022
I was in Russia in 1990. I was taken back by the anger of ordinary people at Gorbachev, whose 'perestroika' dismantled the USSR. Labour laws, key subsidies and pensions were thrown out, US 'advisors' took over and many Russians starved. 'We' didn't have a clue and we still don't.
John Pilger
@johnpilger
Feb 1, 2024
The family of John Pilger would like to thank everyone for their kind messages in the weeks since his death. It has been a great comfort to receive thousands from around the world. We will now endeavour to honour his legacy and keep his life's work and his memory alive.
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John Pilger
@johnpilger
Oct 13, 2022
Watching the BBC's loaded reports from Moscow, reading the rest of the cartoon journalism on Ukraine, it ought now to be clear to the dimmest that, whatever your views, there is no real news on the war, no trusted mainstream source, none, merely a censorship by omission. Beware.
John Pilger
@johnpilger
May 18, 2019
I visited Julian #Assange in prison. He has been ill, but his courage is astonishing. He is locked up for up to 23 hours. Let no one doubt he is a political prisoner, fraudulent events in Sweden included. His crime is truthful journalism. Shame on those who feign otherwise.
John Pilger
@johnpilger
May 10, 2022
Britain, the US, Australia share a phenomenon: each has a political opposition in name only. Every few years a game is played when major parties with the same (more or less) economic, social and war-making policies convince voters they are different. This is known as 'democracy'.