John Pilger dans son film Palestine Is Still the Issue (johnpilger,.com)
L’un des plus grands journalistes et cinéastes de toutes les générations est décédé à l’âge de 84 ans, a annoncé sa famille dimanche.
John Pilger, dont les livres, les films et les articles ont informé des générations de personnes désireuses d’aller au-delà des récits officiels et de la propagande sur la question palestinienne, les guerres menées par les États-Unis au Viêt Nam, en Irak et ailleurs, celle qu’ils prévoient pour la Chine, l’état de la médecine publique en Grande-Bretagne, le traitement des aborigènes dans son Australie natale et une foule d’autres questions publiques cruciales, est décédé à Londres à l’âge de 84 ans.
Consortiumnews.com, 31 décembre 2023
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Les hommages à John Pilger affluent
Roger Waters
@rogerwaters
John Pilger. I miss you my friend, what a great man you were. We will carry you in our hearts forever, you will always be there to give us strength. Love R.
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Jonathan Cook
@Jonathan_K_Cook
John Pilger was an inspiration to young journalists like myself. For decades, he managed to publish searing reports, even in establishment media, that exposed the lies justifying the brutalities of western foreign policy. We need his voice now more than ever. RIP.
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Matt Kennard
@kennardmatt
They could never make him part of the club. Because he could not be bought. He could not be tamed. A tribune for the dispossessed and the silenced. And one of the great non-fiction stylists in the English language. RIP John Pilger
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Max Blumenthal
@MaxBlumenthal
John Pilger’s documentaries are historically significant exposés of the cruelty and connivances of US empire, in which he gave voice to resistance movements still struggling for their sovereignty. Films like his 1983 « Nicaragua, a nation’s right to survive » inspired my own work, as did the messages of encouragement and insights he sent me and my colleagues. Unlike so many of his contemporaries who fell into a fog of liberalism late in life, Pilger’s critiques of empire only sharpened with time. Sadly, he left us today. But his body of work will only grow more relevant in the cataclysmic years ahead. #RIP
