John Pilger. Obituary. End of 2023.

Just another rented apologist. I've not found his hirers; could be someone in Australia, could be some US FedReserve fund, could be people in media. There were objections to his sorrowful visage many years ago. Recently, about a year back, he videoed himself in sad old make-up, and laughed as he described the sorrow of Jews. A long film (with Assange) showed him impishly trying facial expressions, along with ancient stuff such as Bernays the propagandist and the New York Times as not all that reliable. Just another idea-deprived phoney. I haven't bothered to check his supposed death or its date,

I happened to record Pilger twice; here's the first (1994) Keep the Media Nazi Free as part of a number of Jews at South Place Ethical Society, a Jewish haunt. 27 minutes say my notes.

And the second recording, at London University, on Australia in Asia, part of the long-tail distribution of comments after Vietnam.

These days, and after many years, its obvious enough that Pilger was just another type of controlled opposition: aimed at concerned thinker types, looking for truth, not military types or the sort who want to make money but don't do the careful calculations needed. So we have concern over atrocities, and over weapons, but nothing on whether the earmarked enemies in fact would have been happy to sell the stuff of little value to them.

Here's a review of a c.1990 book of Pilger's, Distant Voices, reviewed in 2010.
Conclusion: Pilger is an almost perfect example of the house radical, tolerated provided of course the unspoken limits are accepted. He would certainly never have been published or broadcast otherwise. Unfortunately, I don't think his work is any help whatever in deciding what ought to be done.

Before those audios, 1992 in fact, I found a transcription I made. Late-night BBC. Here's Pilger in earnest conversation with Noam Chomsky. Pilger [Pilinger?] Interview where I've added doubts about Pilger's real name—an ever-present possibility where Jewish activities are suspected. Both of course are 'opposition'—they would never be on the BBC otherwise.

2003 May have been his high point. Something of a guess; I refer to a book prefaced by Pilger, Mark Curtis on Web of Deceit. Curtis seems likely to be yet another Jew (cf. Curtis of Handmade Films, making films of Jewish ideologies, such as Bridget Jones' Diary).

He seems to have spent much of his life in north London (not the expensive part). I remember chatting to a taxi driver at Heathrow, who was holding up a 'Pilger' sign, and remarking on Pilger's white-haired appearance.
It's impossible under the present Jew oligarchy that people like Pilger will have detailed and honest biographies. I'm on the side that dislikes lies, and therefore feels glad that he's removed from the world according to the way of all flesh. Unless he's just another faked statistic, living on an island somewhere.

RW 1 Jan 2024