John Pilger speeches and interviews

On April 4, when Dr King was murdered, Bobby gave a speech without script from the back of a pick-up truck in a black inner-city ghetto of Indianapolis. He spoke about the shooting of his brother five years before, explaining that, like King, John had been killed by a white man. Bobby was widely credited ...

'Elvis Presley: The Searcher' features more than 20 primary source interviews with musicians, engineers, producers and artists who knew Elvis. ... Nile Rodgers, Billy Joel, DA Pennebaker, Chuck D., Carter Burwell, Cliff Martinez, Cheech and Chong, Bob Geldof, director John Pilger, and director Brett Berns.

The interviews, all during the Obama administration, are the writing on the wall that foreshadowed a Trump presidency. Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. As Oliver Stone says in his interview, “[History] allows you to think and put together events and make sense of them. Often we only ...

In the following interviews with noted journalist and filmmaker John Pilger and Christine Assange, mother of the WikiLeaks founder, we attempt to shed some light on the crucial case .... The interview with Christine Assange by Credico and Bernstein was broadcast over Pacifica National Radio on April 5th.

In this letter, twenty-seven writers, journalists, film-makers, artists, academics, former intelligence officers and democrats call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech. If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for ...

The WikiLeaks editor has been unable to access the internet or receive visitors since criticizing Germany's arrest of Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont. “This is about a war on freedom of speech. This man is being denied the most basic right – freedom of speech,” Pilger told RT. “It's part of a wider war ...

This censorious attack on free speech is not happening in Turkey, Saudi Arabia or China; it is right in the heart of London. If the Ecuadorian government does not cease its unworthy action, it, too, will become an agent of persecution rather than the valiant nation that stood up for freedom and for free speech.

If the EU and the UK continue to participate in the scandalous silencing of a true dissident in their midst, it will mean that free speech is indeed dying in Europe. This is not just a matter of showing support and solidarity. ... John Pilger, journalist and film-maker. Angela Richter, theater director, Germany.

“We call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech,” the letter reads. “[U]nder extreme pressure from Washington and its collaborators, another government in Ecuador justifies its gagging of Assange.” It adds: “This censorious attack on free speech is not ...

This censorious attack on free speech is not happening in Turkey, Saudi Arabia or China; it is right in the heart of London. If the Ecuadorean government does not cease its unworthy action, it, too, ... John Pilger, journalist and filmmaker. Angela Richter, theater director, Germany. Saskia Sassen, sociologist ...

Her current recommendations include a John Pilger tome on eyewitness photography. “I'm going through a phase at the moment where I like taking pictures,” the singer tells Clash. “Nothing serious or professional, but what I find really interesting is that he picks out cases and then really digs into why the ...

Journalist John Pilger says ex-Russian spy poisoning case is a 'carefully constructed drama in which the media plays a role' ... In an interview on RT (Russia Today), published online on Sunday, the veteran journalist also appeared to hint at the possibility of British involvement in the attempted murder of ...

A former Research Fellow at Chatham House and the ex-Director of the World Development Movement, British historian Mark Curtis has published several books on UK foreign policy, including 2003's Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World, endorsed by Noam Chomsky and John Pilger. Ian Sinclair ...

During his speech he denounced sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the United States and Europe Union. Those sanctions target 30 top Venezuelan officials, including President Nicolas Maduro, which make foreign debt renegotiation, according to Arreaza, more difficult. "It is regrettable that the ...

In his Putin interviews, Oliver Stone, a man of truth and honor, lets viewers catch a glimpse of the real Vladimir Putin. Of course Putin is a politician and the leader of a great and powerful nation, and one should receive his words skeptically. But watching Stone interview Putin for four hours, one comes away ...

15) Blamed national pride on 'nationalist history teaching' causing racism. 16) Claimed the free market 'exploits all resources including people'. 17) Supported the 'one settler, one bullet' arm of the anti-apartheid movement not Nelson Mandela side. 18) Refused five times in a BBC interview to condemn ...

We also air part of one of his last interviews, conducted less than a month before his first stroke. John Pilger is an Australian-born journalist and documentary film-maker. As a chief foreign correspondent he covered numerous wars, including, most notably, the Vietnam War. He has contributed to BBC, ABC ...

Noted journalist and filmmaker John Pilger's collection of work has been archived by the British Library, but deep-rooted problems of Western media create an increasingly difficult landscape for ethical journalism, as Pilger explained in an interview with Dennis Bernstein and Randy Credico. by Dennis J ...

In his film The Coming War on China, John Pilger warns that nuclear war is no longer unthinkable. China's building of airstrips in the South China Sea has become a flashpoint for war between China and the US. But China itself is under threat. The US "pivot to Asia", announced under former US President ...

CAPE TOWN - Internationally renowned journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger will be delivering a talk on the current political situation in South Africa in Cape Town on Monday night. The title of his lecture will be: "South Africa: how a nation was misled and became a model for the world, and ...

On Oct. 16, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation aired an interview with Hillary Clinton: one of many to promote her score-settling book about why she was not elected .... FERGUSON: Lots of people, including in Australia, think that Assange is a martyr for free speech and freedom of information.

It's true, veteran journalist John Pilger concedes in the opening of his latest documentary film, The Coming War on China, that China has been trying to .... For instance, freedom of speech, as Pilger points out, is not something Chinese citizens enjoy in particularly great abundance, and saying the wrong ...

Last night it was oh-so-different with presenter Leigh Sales' oh-so-soft interview with former FBI director James Comey in Washington DC. .... Fran Kelly, has five political commentators in the team — Michelle Grattan, Paul Bongiorno, Peter van Onselen, Phil (“I used to be a John Pilger fan boy”) Coorey and ...

“This is about a war on freedom of speech; this man is being denied the most basic right – freedom of speech. It's part of a wider war. The wider war is against known enemies, and Russia is one of them, China is another,” investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger said. Earlier this week ...