Harry Knowles
American film critic and writer
John Richard Pilgerwas an Australian journalist, writer, scholar and documentary filmmaker. From 1962, he was based mainly in Britain.
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About the John Pilger
John Richard Pilgerwas an Australian journalist, writer, scholar and documentary filmmaker. From 1962, he was based mainly in Britain. He was also a visiting professor at Cornell University in New York.
Pilger was a critic of American, Australian, and British foreign policy, which he considered to be driven by an imperialist and colonialist agenda. He criticised his native country’s treatment of Indigenous Australians. He first drew international attention for his reports on the Cambodian genocide.
Pilger’s career as a documentary film maker began with The Quiet Mutinyand Utopia (2013). In the British print media, Pilger worked at the Daily Mirror from 1963 to 1986, and wrote a regular column for the New Statesman magazine from 1991 to 2014.
Pilger won Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award in 1967 and 1979. His documentaries have gained awards in Britain and abroad, including a BAFTA.
10 Quotes by John Pilger
- 1.
Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.
John PilgerAustralian journalist
- 2.
It’s very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.
John PilgerAustralian journalist
- 3.
Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they’re not, I don’t know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that’s been revealed.
John PilgerAustralian journalist
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I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.
John PilgerAustralian journalist
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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.
John PilgerAustralian journalist
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The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don’t stand a chance.
John PilgerAustralian journalist
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Official truths are often powerful illusions.
John PilgerAustralian journalist
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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
John PilgerAustralian journalist
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Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don’t believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.
John PilgerAustralian journalist
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We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it’s called the Labour government.
John PilgerAustralian journalist