Freedom Next Time

John Pilger grew up in Sydney, Australia. He has been a war correspondent, author and film-maker. He has twice won British journalism's highest award, that of Journalist of the Year, for his work all over the world, notably in Cambodia and Vietnam. He has been International Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations Associated Peace Prize and Gold Medal. For his broadcasting, he has won France's Reporter Sans Frontières, an American television Academy Award, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2003, he received the Sophie Prize for 'thirty years of exposing deception and improving human rights'.

"Pilger is the closest we have to the great correspondents of the 1930s... The truth in his hands is a weapon, to be picked up and brandished and used in the struggle against evil and injustice" Guardian "John Pilger is the antidote to easy, comfortable thinking, to smugness, to ignorance" Daily Telegraph "Pilger's gift is for finding the image, the instant, that reveals all - he is a photographer using words instead of a camera" -- Salman Rushdie "John Pilger unearths, with steely attention to facts, the filthy truth and tells it as it is. I salute him" -- Harold Pinter "The array of interviews with the voiceless and abused provides an indispensable corrective to the litany of disinformation we are fed by the media, and for this achievement Pilger is surely the most outstanding journalist in the world today" Guardian