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I am sure he did a return to the killing fields ?Originally posted by NYCBlue View Post
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Pilgers film 'Palestine is still an issue' is 20 years old and still relevant.Originally posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
Fantastic journalist.Comment
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Remember watching the one on Cambodia when I was a teenager, made massive impact. Broke the mould making challenging and thought provoking documentaries. RIPComment
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Who was the bloke in saigon as the helicopter was taking away the Yanks fleeing from the Vietnamese?
Nicholson ?
He was a reporter not a pilger type journalist but I admired those guys tooComment
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Originally posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
Another good guy
In the balkans conflict rescued a kid whose family were killed and smuggled her to uk , pretending she was his daughter
Eventually adopted her
Some of the places he has reported from bloody hell
Poor sod retired and died on holiday on a cruise
All that stress and bang goodnightComment
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This is the piece that I remember mostly when i think of John Pilger.Comment
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The special relationship between Britain and AmericaOriginally posted by cityhammer View Post
In this case expelling innocent people from their homes to build a huge yank airforce base that they in return will use to protect the world
But only if it benefits America
There's a fella I know who is from Rwanda , a friend of a friend , lives in Barry now
Fled here during the genocide , he's incredibly well read and says America is far more dangerous than Russia or China
Pilger was a great man and I am surprised he wasn't assassinated by CIAComment
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A less than flattering article about Pilger:
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That could have been Max Hastings, he was pulled onto a helicopter and was the last civilian out. He was also the first Brit to enter Port Stanley in the Falklands war, beating the army.Originally posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View PostComment
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Very sad news indeed. Along with Director Dave Munroe, he brought the tragedy of Cambodia to our screens. If not for him the tragedy of Pol pot and the Khmer rouge 4 years in power may have not been fully known. Superb journalist.
I recommend Year Zero- Silent death of Cambodia and the follow up Documentaries including Betrayal.
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I didn't always agree with Pilger but it's a bit rich that Kamm is accusing Pilger of of being less than ethical and skewered by left-wing politics in his reporting, while Kamm himself has a very tarnished reputation in supporting some of the most abhorrent foreign policies of both the UK government (Blair) and Israel's right-wing corrupt regime.Originally posted by Taunton Blue Genie View PostComment
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They don't make em like this guy anymore.Comment
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