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Pilger on the manufacture of truth
By Susan Price GEELONG — John Pilger, renowned journalist, author and film-maker, gave the Edward ... Wilson Memorial Lecture in Geelong on October 26, to an auditorium of over 400 people. Pilger gave an ... 1975, Pilger took the audience through a thorough exposé of the establishment media's attempts to ...
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Pilger speaks on East Timor
October 20 to hear journalist and human rights campaigner John Pilger speak about East Timor's ... the East Timorese Cultural Group. Pilger spoke of the plight of the Timorese people and the complicity ...
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Pilger on SBS
Pilger on SBS SBS Television this week will be screening John Pilger's new film on Cambodia, ... Return to Year Zero. Pilger, who portrayed for the world the horrors Cambodia had experienced in his 1979 ...
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Pilger at his best
Distant Voices By John Pilger Vintage. 397 pp. $14.95 Reviewed by Frank Noakes "Unless ... meaning. All the more credit, then, to John Pilger, the rebel who combines clarity with both precision and ... easy access. Writing in the Observer, Salman Rushdie says: "Pilger's strength is his gift for ...
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Pilger: We need an independent media
neither had author John Pilger and journalist Wendy Bacon. On October 10 Gould's Bookshop in Newtown, ... Pilger quickly warmed up, warning that "while the media is structured the way it is nothing, ... movement". It was billed as a book-signing, and Pilger did eventually sign copies of his latest book, Distant ...
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Pilger's Timor film launched
By Allen Myers SYDNEY — Death of a Nation, John Pilger's new film on East Timor, was launched ... become a classic of film journalism, in the tradition of Pilger's justly famous Cambodia: Year Zero. ... John Pilger's other work will not be surprised to hear that his East Timor documentary pulls no ...
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John Pilger: Australia, the republic and imperialism
clearly recognised as such, has sheltered behind the United Nations. Campaigning journalist JOHN PILGER ... award for turning up in Somalia, then they're being less than naive", Pilger declares. ... the late '70s." John Pilger's latest television film documentary, Return to Year Zero, ...
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Interview: John Pilger
Australian journalist and film maker John Pilger was recently in Sydney on the way back to England ... world politics. John Pilger isn't very popular with the establishment. His commitment to social ... courageous exposure of uncomfortable truths. Pilger's aim is to "turn conventional journalism on ...
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Pilger calls for escalation of East Timor campaign
Indonesia's genocidal generals", renowned author and film maker John Pilger told a 450-strong meeting ... room" — to stop Papua New Guinea's military invasion of the island. Pilger, whose outspokenness on ... regime, who give comfort and support to it, who appease it, are dealing with genocidists", Pilger ...
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John Pilger's Cambodian film
John Pilger's Cambodian film Return to Year Zero, award-winning journalist John Pilger ... show Pilger film" but "Pilger's Cambodia film deeply flawed". Evidently feeling ... Pilger's sharp criticism of the "peace plan" developed by the United Nations and Australian ...
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Pilger: Australia's role in Timor tragedy
Death of a Nation, the new film on East Timor narrated by Australian journalist JOHN PILGER, has ... has been shown here. Pilger, in London, was interviewed by phone for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly by HELEN ...
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John Pilger speaks on East Timor
In October we commemorated the 20th anniversary of the murder of two Australian television teams in East Timor. Senator Gareth Evans has denied that the government covered up the facts of the killings in Balibo on October 16, 1975. Like so much of what Ev ...
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Proud of his enemies
Voices at Gould's Bookshop in Glebe on October 10, John Pilger elaborated upon his refusal to enter ... into a public brawl with Ben Hills. Hills slammed Pilger's work (while freely admitting not having ... read any of Pilger's five previous books) as poorly researched and biased in a half-page assault ...
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Xanana: "We resist to win"
Pilger's prison interview with Xanana December 7 marked 20 years since Indonesia invaded East ... a prison cell in Jakarta, XANANA GUSMAO smuggled out a tape recording to JOHN PILGER of his views on East ... Pilger's attempts to have the interview published in Australia, the Canberra Times was the only ...
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200 issues of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly &&
a brilliant achievement. John Pilger, London On behalf of the 17 workers I would like to thank 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ for ...
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A rousing witness to injustice
Distant Voices By John Pilger Vintage, 1994, 625 pp., $14.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon In ... Distant Voices, John Pilger is once again on a mission to "rescue from media oblivion uncomfortable ... establishment media is that liberal capitalism is "the system that works". It works, says Pilger, but ...
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The continuing betrayal of Cambodia
Cambodia — the Betrayal By John Pilger Reviewed by Helen Jarvis ABC Television finally screened ... John Pilger's latest film on Sunday night. Although Pilger is Australian, we only got to see it ... personal attacks on Pilger. Although now almost six months old, the film has not become outdated at all ...
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Storm over Indonesian arms sales
the wake of the February 22 nationwide TV showing of John Pilger's film about Timor, Death of ... a Nation. Pilger allowed the phone number of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) to be flashed at the ... of Pilger's film, the Timor issue was virtually unknown in Britain. Now a major protest is ...
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Dealing with the devil
The Last Battle By John Pilger ABC TV Thursday, October 12, 8.30pm (8 SA) Previewed by Allen Myers ... makes Pilger so hated by political flunkeys of the wealthy. But the main focus is what has happened to ... of foreign capitalist investment. The question Pilger raises is whether foreign investment and the ...
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'Morning Star' relaunched
its survival into question. The well-known journalist John Pilger issued a plea for public support of ... people's resistance to the one-doctrine state that Britain has become". Pilger warned that the paper ...