Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
"John Richard Pilger" is an Australian-British journalism/journalist based in London. Pilger has lived in the United Kingdom since 1962.
Since his early years as correspondent in the Vietnam War, Pilger has been a strong critic of Foreign policy of the United States/American and Foreign relations of the United Kingdom/British foreign policy, which he considers to be driven by an Imperialism/imperialist agenda. The practices of the mainstream media have also been a theme in his work.
His career as a documentary film maker began with The Quiet Mutiny (1970), made during one of his visits to Vietnam, and has continued with over fifty documentaries since then. Other works in this form include Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia/Year Zero (1979), about the aftermath of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, and Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1993). Pilger has long criticised his native country's treatment of indigenous Australians and has made many documentary films on this subject including The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back/The Secret Country (1985) and Utopia (2013 film)/Utopia (2013). In the British print media, he has had a long association with the Daily Mirror, and since 1991 has written a regular column for the New Statesman magazine.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More John Pilger on Wikipedia.The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.
The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the job. The war on terrorism has given them that opportunity.
Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.
Nothing more vividly sums up the horrific situation in Iraq than what happened on Wednesday of this week when American helicopters attacked a wedding party in the west of Iraq killing 40 mostly women and children, a massacre. How long is the world going to stand for this? When I say the world I'm talking about civilized humanity.
There are fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, who appear to be in charge of the White House at the moment, but they are very different from the Christian gentlemen who ran the British Empire and believed they were doing good works around the world. These days it's about naked power.
It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.
I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.
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