Almost fourteen years after South Africa’s first democratic elections and the fall of racial apartheid, John Pilger describes, in an address at Rhodes University, the dream and reality of the new South Africa and the responsibility of its new elite.
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John Pilger pays tribute to his friend, the great photo-journalist Philip Jones Griffiths, who has died. “No photographer,” he writes, “produced such finely subversive work, knowing that truth in war is always subversive.”
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In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger describes the extraordinary life of Moudud Ahmed, who in 1971 led him into liberated East Pakistan, later Bangladesh. Now a political prisoner of the military dictatorship in Dhaka, Moudud Ahmed is seriously ill in a country which, says his wife Hasna, “is itself a prison”.
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In his latest article for the New Statesman, John Pilger reports from his homeland on Australia’s hidden empire – a ‘sphere of influence’ that stretches from the Aboriginal slums of Sydney to East Timor and Afghanistan. The arrival of a new prime minister, Kevin Rudd, offers important continuity.
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By Patrice Greanville with Jason Miller Note: This is a repost. This essay was written…