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

Since his early years as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Pilger has been a strong critic of American and British foreign policy, which he considers to be driven by an imperialist agenda.

Pilger has also criticised his native country's treatment of Indigenous Australians and the practices of the mainstream media.

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.

In a 2007 speech, " Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire ", Pilger described his experience with executives of the American Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ) who refused to screen Year Zero, which, according to Pilger, has never been broadcast in the USA.

Pilger has long been a critic of Australian government policy, particularly of what he regards as its inherent racism and the poor treatment of its indigenous population.

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.

Pilger has a fortnightly column in New Statesman, his most frequent outlet, which began in 1991 while Steve Platt was editor of the magazine.

Reportedly, Pilger has described his role at the Statesman as a " fig leaf ".

Pilger asserts, " In his first 100 days, Obama has excused torture, opposed habeas corpus and demanded more secret government ".

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

* 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.

* Noam Chomsky said of Pilger: " John Pilger's work has been a beacon of light in often dark times.

* Martha Gellhorn, the American novelist, journalist and war correspondent, said that " Pilger has taken on the great theme of justice and injustice ...

* 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.

* " Suharto to Iraq: Nothing has changed " – Article by Australian journalist and Suharto critic John Pilger on the fortieth anniversary of the Transition to the New Order in Zmag ( originally published in the New Statesman ).

In the first years of the twenty-first century the paper has carried contributions from Uri Avnery, John Pilger, Green activist Derek Wall, ex-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, Green MP Caroline Lucas, Respect MP George Galloway, former MP Alan Simpson, the cartoonist Martin Rowson, and many trade union general secretaries.

Media Lens is admired by several journalists, including John Pilger, who has written about their " remarkable website ", and Glenn Greenwald.

John Pilger has said " Every member of the public and every journalist with an ounce of scepticism about authority should read outstanding book.

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.

SA host an annual conference in Melbourne each year called Marxism, which has grown to attract several hundred participants, including national and international guest speakers such as John Pilger and Malalai Joya.

In particular, Pilger noted Sheridan's defense of Indonesia following the Clinton administration's critique of Suharto's human rights records, as well as the Australian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee following its confirmation of the Santa Cruz Massacre.

Pilger said, while speaking to journalism students at the University of Lincoln, that mainstream journalism means corporate journalism, and as such represents vested corporate interests over those of the public.

* Former members include Mark Lazarowicz, MP ; Catherine Stihler, MP ( at the University of St Andrews ); and Mark Ballard, former MSP and Rector ( at the University of Edinburgh ) where the People & Planet group was instrumental in his election in 2006, against a field including Magnus Linklater, Boris Johnson and John Pilger.

Unusually for a current affairs programme, WIA's standard format was as a voice-over documentary without a regular reporter although a handful of WIA journalists did appear in front of camera, including Chris Kelly, Gordon Burns, John Pilger, Gus Macdonald, Anthony Wilson, Nick Davies, Adam Holloway, Stuart Prebble ( who later became the programme's editor ), Mike Walsh, David Taylor and Donal MacIntyre.

John Richard Pilger is a London-based Australian journalist.

Nearly eighteen months after Robert Maxwell bought the Mirror ( on 12 July 1984 ), Pilger was sacked by Richard Stott, the newspaper's editor, on 31 December 1985.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, being interviewed via a live-cross, complained that Hill had not researched him before the interview, saying " You waste my time because you have not prepared for this interview, as any journalist does, and I've done many interviews.

" Pilger was not arguing for peace.

* 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.