John Pilger, the renowned Australia-born investigative journalist who was a trenchant critic of the West’s “imperialist” foreign policy, has died at age 84.
I know him best from this lecture.
Propaganda in liberal democracies like America and Britain is much more thorough than in dictatorships and totalitarian states. […] [T]he conformity of information and opinion is insidious. Its sameness implicit, ingrained, and even celebrated.
Didn’t even know about him, but rest in power
Pilger was one of the great Western documentarians that covered US Imperialism. Rest in Power to a real one!