John Pilger - Flying the Flag - Arming the World (1994)

John Pilger - Flying the Flag - Arming the World (1994)

Flying The Flag - Arming The World - An investigation of the world of international arms dealing.

"Beginning as a journalist in his native Australia before moving to London, John Pilger has been the recipient of multiple awards, including Britain's highest award for journalism, twice, and television academy awards in both the UK and the United States. He has been a foreign correspondent and frontline war reporter, and is a regular contributor to international media, including the ITV Network, the Guardian and the New Statesman. An incisive and rare critic of Western economic and military power, Pilger's humane eyewitness reporting has been described as a unique presence on British television that explores where others dare not go."

"A lot may depend on how you view Pilger. He is articulate, passionate, courageous and fearsomely determined and his heart is absolutely plugged into the right place. However he can be pompous, sanctimonious, holier than thou and is resolutely humorless. You may think humor has no place regarding the subjects covered here and you may well be right but I feel that a touch of satire or black sarcasm often makes a point far more effectively than anything else. It's not Pilger's thing though. He sticks to what he is good at - finding out the empirical truth behind all the subterfuge, defamation and propaganda and telling it like it is."

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comment: Next to Bill Cooper, John Pilger is my "saint number two". I have never heard a lie from his lips so far.