John Pilger

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[center][large]Death of a Nation - The Timor Conspiracy - Indonesia[/large]








John Pilger - Death of a Nation
The Timor Conspiracy - Indonesia

1994 - AVI - 581.7 MB

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[justify]On December 7, 1975 Indonesia secretly ? but with the complicity of the Western powers including the US, the UK, and Australia ? invaded the small nation of East Timor. Two Australian television crews attempting to document the invasion were murdered.

In 1993, with the Indonesian army still occupying the country, John Pilger and his crew including director David Munro, slipped into East Timor and made this film. In the intervening 18 years, an estimated 200,000 East Timorese ? 1/3 of the population ? had been slaughtered by the Indonesian military. The C.I.A. has described it as one of the worst mass-murders of the 20th century.

Pilger tells the story using clandestine footage of the countryside, internment camps and even Fretlin guerillas, as well as interviews with Timorese exiles, including Jose Ramos Horta and Jose Gusmao, and Australian, British, and Indonesian diplomats.[/justify]

[Volksfuhrer]

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[large]War by Other Means[/large]
Banks enslaving countries through debts - 1992[/center]


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[justify]John Pilger and David Munro examine the policy of First World banks agreeing loans with Third World countries, who are then unable to meet the cripling interest charges. Won Geneva International TV Award at the North-South Media Encounters event, Geneva, 1993;Gold Medal in the 'Best Documentary Production category' of the International Television Movie Festival, Mount Freedom, New Jersey 1993; Gold Award in the 'Political/International Issues category' at WorldFest-Houston (Houston International Film & Video Festival), 1993; Silver Hugo Award in the 'Documentary - Social/Political category' of the 29th Chicago International Film Festival, 1993.[/justify]

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[center][large]Breaking The Silence
Truth and Lies in the War On Terror[/large][/center]



[justify]John Pilger dissects the truth and lies in the ?war on terror?. Award-winning journalist John Pilger investigates the discrepancies between American and British claims for the ?war on terror? and the facts on the ground as he finds them in Afghanistan and Washington, DC. In 2001, as the bombs began to drop, George W. Bush promised Afghanistan ?the generosity of America and its allies?. Now, the familiar old warlords are regaining power, religious fundamentalism is renewing its grip and military skirmishes continue routinely. In ?liberated? Afghanistan, America has its military base and pipeline access, while the people have the warlords who are, says one woman, ?in many ways worse than the Taliban?.

In Washington, Pilger conducts a series of remarkable interviews with William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, and leading Administration officials such as Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and John Bolton, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. These people, and the other architects of the Project for the New American Century, were dismissed as ?the crazies? by the first Bush Administration in the early 90s when they first presented their ideas for pre-emptive strikes and world domination.[/justify]

[center][large]Breaking The Silence - Truth and Lies in the War on Terror by John Pilger.flv (132.5 MB)
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[center][large]The New Rulers of the World[/large][/center]



[justify]In order to examine the true effects of globalization, Pilger turns the spotlight on Indonesia, a country described by the World Bank as a model pupil until its globalized economy collapsed in 1998. The film examines the use of sweatshop factories by famous brand names, and asks some penetrating questions. Who are the real beneficiaries of the globalized economy?

Who really rules the world now? Is it governments or a handful of huge companies? The Ford Motor Company alone is bigger than the economy of South Africa. Enormously rich men, like Bill Gates, have a wealth greater than all of Africa. Pilger goes behind the hype of the new global economy and reveals that the divisions between the rich and poor have never been greater ? two thirds of the world?s children live in poverty ? and the gulf is widening like never before.

The film looks at the new rulers of the world ? the great multinationals and the governments and institutions that back them ? the IMF and the World Bank. Under IMF rules, millions of people throughout the world lose their jobs and livelihood. The reality behind much of modern shopping and the famous brands is a sweatshop economy, which is being duplicated in country after country.

The film travels to Indonesia and Washington, asking challenging questions seldom raised in the mainstream media and exposing the scandal of globalization, including revealing interviews with top officials of the World Bank and the IMF.[/justify]

[center]John Pilger - The New rulers of The World.flv (128.65 MB)
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[center][large]Stealing a Nation[/large][/center]

[justify]Hidden from Parliament and the U.S. Congress, the deal was this: the Americans wanted the island, in their words, ?swept and sanitized.? An entire population was declared expendable; all of them were to be deported.

Stealing a Nation (John Pilger, 2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean ? secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to make way for an American military base. The base, on the main island of Diego Garcia, was a launch pad for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.[/justify]

[center]Stealing a Nation a Special Report by John Pilger.flv (144.94 MB)
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