John Pilger
John Richard Pilger (born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist based since 1962 in the United Kingdom. Since his early years as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Pilger has been a strong critic of American, Australian 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.
His career as a documentary film maker began with The Quiet Mutiny (1970), made during one of his visits to Vietnam, and has continued with over fifty documentaries since then. Other works in this form include Year Zero (1979), about the aftermath of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, and Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1993). Pilger's many documentary films on indigenous Australians include The Secret Country (1985) and Utopia (2013). In the British print media, Pilger worked at the Daily Mirror from 1963-86, and wrote a regular column for the New Statesman magazine from 1991 to 2014.
War By Other Means
Every voice you've silenced and every life you've taken
Recollections from your distant past
The tortured and the dying from a legacy of hatred
Are back to echo in your ears
Screams you thought for sure wouldn't last
Because you can't kill an idea, I will not be ruled...
Because you can't kill an idea, and we will not be ruled...
"Disrupt misdirect isolate and neutralize"
Like the Trudells who burned alive in '79
Now those enemies of the hour are the focus of this moment
For as long as we are here every voice remains alive
Because you can't kill an idea, I will not be ruled...
Because you can't kill an idea, we will not be ruled by fear
I pledge no allegiance to the flag
Of the undeniable mistakes of America
Which to the plutocracy for which it stands
So many nations and their gods have become invisible
With liberty and justice reserved for a precious chosen few
Let our allegiances lie with those betrayed by the facade
For the calm is an illusion...
"The struggle is not over... it assumes new forms"
For no matter what the face no matter what the name
It's still...