pn913. Tributes to the great Australian journalist John Pilger

From his native Australia to the UK and USA, East Timor,  Iraq, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Israel ....

"Pilger exposed atrocity, war crimes, abuse of power, dispossession, hypocrisy and dirty tricks around the world in a life of fearless truth telling. May he rest in peace." - Quentin Dempster.

In addition to railing against Western foreign policy throughout his career, Pilger was a staunch critic of Australia's treatment of its Indigenous peoples.  

He was also a visible supporter and friend of Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who he said had launched a "moral revolution in journalism".

Leading the tributes to Pilger on social media, former ABC journalist Quentin Dempster wrote on X: "John Pilger. Friend of mine, of Julian Assange and of the truth. A sad end to a bad year."

Read The Guardian obituary, details activities across the world 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/01/john-pilger-obituary

Read Consotium News, tributes by many journalists 

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/01/tributes-pour-in-for-john-pilger/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=e6a0d4b2-edee-498c-897d-7e4f9bdb421a

pn978. America, a litany of lies, wars and the dead. A must read on propaganda and a weakened press by John Pilger

Australian journalist JohnPilger

A reader's comment on the article:

John Pilger has been the staunchest of investigative‘whistleblower’ journalists, for generations.
The probability for the power of speech is hereditary in everyone, yet the power to control free speech has long ago been usurped through illegitimate government’ interference.
How much more profound can one humane being be than John Pilger!
He has literally been one of the exceptions, yet the intensity of his voice is still not being heard.

Here are some passsages from Pilger's article:

... Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism.