Pilger wrote in 2000 that the 1998 legislation that removed the common law rights of Indigenous Australians " is just one of the disgraces that has given Australia the distinction of being the only developed country whose government has been condemned as racist by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Chris Mullin first visited Cambodia in 1973, and again in 1980 ; in 1989 and 1990, he was outspoken on the British Government's record in Cambodia, being a leading voice in some of the first protracted debates on Britain's provision of military support to the Khmer Rouge, and attributing increasing public interest in the issue to the documentary films of John Pilger.

Pilger and his team interviewed members of Charter 77, and others, secretly using domestic film equipment.

In 2003 Pilger was interviewed by the New Zealand journalist Kim Hill on her television show Face to Face With Kim Hill.

The word was included in the Oxford Dictionary of New Words in 1991, but removed from the subsequent edition after Pilger complained and, according to some sources, threatened legal action.

Desmond Browne, QC, for Mr Pilger and Central Television, said his clients had not intended to allege the two men trained the Khmer Rouge to lay mines, but they accepted that was how the program had been understood.

When Death of a Nation was screened in Australia in June 1994, Foreign Minister Gareth Evans declared that Pilger " had a track record of distorted sensationalism mixed with sanctimony.

Pilger strongly criticised Tony Blair for not making any real response to the 2000 High Court ruling that the British expulsion of the island's natives to Mauritius in order to make way for a United States Air Force base had been illegal.

Pilger backed Julian Assange by pledging bail in December 2010 ; the money was lost in June 2012 when a judge ordered it to be forfeited, as Assange had sought to escape the jurisdiction of the English courts by entering the embassy of Ecuador.

* The English writer Auberon Waugh, writing in The Spectator in the 1970s in response to an article Pilger had written alleging Thai complicity in child trafficking ( whose research was challenged ), coined the verb " to pilger ", defined as: to present information in a sensationalist manner to reach a foregone conclusion.

Journalist John Pilger wrote in October 2009, " Incredibly, the Thatcher government had continued to support the defunct Pol Pot regime in the United Nations and even sent the SAS to train his exiled troops in camps in Thailand and Malaysia.

Pilger has visited Assange in the embassy and continues to support him.

Aaronovitch responded to an article by Pilger about the mainstream media in 2003 as one of his " typical pieces about the corruption of most journalists ( ie people like me ) versus the bravery of a few ( ie people like him )".

In 1987 Pilger was a founder of News on Sunday in London, and titular Editor-in-Chief, but resigned before publication.

" Real shame we can't show it here "", Pilger said in an interview with the New Statesman.

* John Pilger: There Is a War on Journalism-video interview by Democracy Now!

The Secretary-General of the UN at the time the resolution was passed, Boutros Boutros-Ghali called the no-fly zones " illegal " in a later interview with John Pilger.

The Secretary-General of the UN at the time the resolution was passed, Boutros Boutros-Ghali called the no-fly zones " illegal " in a February 2003 interview with John Pilger.

*" The Outsiders: Martha Gellhorn " a 1983 interview by John Pilger

In April 1991, Iraqi no-fly zones created during the Gulf War by the enforcing powers related to United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 as authorising the operations, which Boutros Boutros-Ghali called the no-fly zones " illegal " in a later interview with John Pilger.

* Three-minute Cliffs Notes of U. S. foreign policy, interview with John Pilger

Investigative journalist and filmmaker John Pilger discussing The War You Don't See at Marxism 2011.

* The Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens said of Pilger: " I remember thinking that his work from Vietnam was very good at the time.

Pilger has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries, screened internationally, have gained awards in Britain and worldwide, and the journalist has received several honorary doctorates.

* John Simpson, the BBC's world affairs editor, has said, " A country that does not have a John Pilger in its journalism is a very feeble place indeed.

Iraq War critics such as John Pilger have pointed out that the vast majority of troops provided came from the U. S. and Britain and is therefore accurately described as a predominantly Anglo-American force rather than as a coalition.

" Several of her prominent close friends ( among them Betsy Drake, the actress who was once married to Cary Grant ; investigative journalist John Pilger ; writer James Fox ; and Martha's younger brother, Alfred ) have dismissed the characterizations of her as sexually manipulative and maternally deficient.

Theories about the Australian arm of the IACF have abounded since 1975, when then Australian Governor-General John Kerr, an IACF member and, according to William Blum, as cited by John Pilger, a member of the executive board of the Australian branch, dismissed the government of then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

Previous Festivals have included events with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Stephen Fry, Dr David Starkey, Doris Lessing, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Jamie Oliver, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Carol Ann Duffy, Nick Hornby, Michael Rosen, Michael Frayn, Lionel Shriver, Rose Tremain and Claire Tomalin, Simon Armitage, Lemn Sissay, David Lodge, John Pilger and Benjamin Zephaniah to name just a few.

Together with John Pilger and Jemima Khan, Ken Loach was among the six people in court willing to offer surety for Julian Assange when he was arrested in London on 7 December 2010.

John Pilger, an internationally significant journalist, castigates the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for allowing the easy transition from white exclusive capitalism to multiracial capitalism, and for failing to cause the trial of criminals, particularly murderers.

Kelly's support for Suharto continued to 1998 and earned criticism from fellow journalist John Pilger who compared it to the appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s.

Paxman has been criticised by John Pilger for his involvement with the British-American Project.

His career on television began on World in Action ( Granada Television ) in 1969, for whom he made two documentaries broadcast in 1970 and 1971, the earliest of more than fifty involving Pilger.

The Pilger half-hour documentary series was commissioned by Charles Denton, then a producer with ATV, for screening on the British ITV network.

In 1979, Pilger and two colleagues with whom he collaborated for many years, documentary film-maker David Munro and photographer Eric Piper, entered Cambodia in the wake of the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime.

In addition to criticizing the policies of former United States President George W. Bush and, in his view, the administration's exploitation of the 9 / 11 terrorist attacks, Pilger believes former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be just as responsible as President Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and occupation of Iraq.

On 25 July 2005, Pilger ascribed blame for the 2005 London bombings that took place the same month to Blair, whose decision to follow Bush helped to generate the rage that he maintains precipitated those bombings.

In the same column a year later, Pilger described Blair as a war criminal for supporting Israel's actions during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.

Pilger has received human rights and journalism awards, including the Richard Dimbleby Award for factual reporting at the 1990 BAFTA Awards, as well as many honorary doctorates.

" Pilger was not arguing for peace.

* In Breaking the Silence: The Television Reporting of John Pilger, his appraisal of the journalist's documentaries, Anthony Hayward wrote, " For more than a generation, he has been an ever stronger voice for those without a voice and a thorn in the side of authority, the Establishment.

* John Pilger: Global Support for WikiLeaks is " Rebellion " Against U. S. Militarism-video report by Democracy Now!

* Onebigtorrent. org, The Documentary Death of a Nation — The Timor Conspiracy, produced by John Pilger in 1994 details the occupation period and exposes the involvement of Western governments in providing essential weapons systems, financial aid and the political cover for the Indonesian regime.

* John Pilger, an Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker, collaborated with filmmaker David Munro and photographer Eric Piper on the impact of the Khmer Rouge on the Cambodian people in a report for the British tabloid Daily Mirror and the documentary Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia ( 1979 ) for Associated Television.

World in Action employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger ; Michael Parkinson ; Gordon Burns ; Rob Rohrer ; Nick Davies, Ed Vulliamy and David Leigh of The Guardian ; Alasdair Palmer of the Sunday Telegraph ; John Ware, BBC Panoramas leading investigative reporter ; Anthony Wilson, whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film 24 Hour Party People ; Michael Gillard, creator of the Slicker business pages in the satirical magazine Private Eye ; Donal MacIntyre ; the writer Mark Hollingsworth ; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; Tony Watson, editor of the Yorkshire Post for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the Press Association from December 2006 ; and Andrew Jennings, author of Lords of the Rings, who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.