John Pilger
John Pilger is a left wing Australian journalist from Sydney.
Pilger's career in journalism began in 1958, and he has earned a good reputation on the left through both his reporting and the various books he's written and documentary films he's produced. He has acted as a war correspondent during conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Egypt, India, Bangladesh and Biafra.
Works
Publications
Pilger has written for the following publications:
He has also written for various French, Italian, Scandinavian, Canadian and Japanese newspapers and periodicals, among others, and has contributed to the BBC's news service.
Books
- The Last Day (1975)
- Aftermath: The Stuggles of Cambodia and Vietnam (1981)
- The Outsiders (1984)
- Heroes (1986)
- A Secret Country (1989)
- Distant Voices (1992 and 1994)
- Hidden Agendas (1998)
- The New Rulers of the World (2002)
Play
Quotes
- I know when Bush is lying. His lips move."[1]
- Exchange between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Tony Jones [1]
- Jones: Can you approve in that context the killing of American, British or Australian troops who are in the occupying forces?
- Pilger: Well yes, they're legitimate targets. They're illegally occupying a country. And I would have thought from an Iraqi's point of view they are legitimate targets, they'd have to be, sure.
- Jones: So Australian troops you would regard in Iraq as legitimate targets?
- Pilger: Excuse me but, really, that's an unbecoming question. I've just said that any foreign occupier of a country, military occupier, be they Germans in France, Americans in Vietnam, the French in Algeria, wherever, the Americans in Latin America, I would have thought, from the point of view of the local people - and as I mentioned, be they Australians in Australia - if Australia had been invaded and occupied by the Japanese, then the occupying forces, from the point of view of the people of that country, are legitimate targets.
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