When he died in 2023, John Pilger was lauded as “a giant of journalism” by Britain’s National Union of Journalists, which further described him as
…a brave and prolific film-maker and a brilliant reporter, with a rare gift for vivid, descriptive writing. But his greatest gift perhaps was in ‘lifting rocks’. In his dozens of documentaries and hundreds of articles over six decades, most often exposing the ruthlessness of power, John became the most important journalist of his generation.
I just stumbled across a remarkable warning that he wrote in a May 2014 Opinion published by the Guardian that strikes me as remarkably prescient. Click on the image below to to reader the article.
This also highlights how far the Guardian has travelled (fallen) in the intervening years, as it has become a fully co-ordinated instrumentality of the blob. (e.g., this is currently on the homepage: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/11/donald-trump-sell-out-ukraine-europe-leaders )
I doubt Pilger would have expected the Europeans to outstrip the U.S. in malignant Russophobia, but they have. This week’s talks in Abu Dhabi won’t accomplish much, but at least the U.S. and Russia had the sense to exclude the EU/UK/France/Germany, who would have had no other agenda than to sabotage them.
What a find! Pilger was one of the greats. It's amazing how much willful ignorance still exists in the world. No wonder propaganda always works for at least 30% of the population. Sigh.