Vinneren av Australias menneskerettighetspris, Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger, beviser at kampen mot øvrigheten ikke er nytteløs. Med nok en utmerkelse står han som et fyrtårn i kampen for å avdekke sannhet.
John Pilger er definitivt en av verdens mest anerkjente undersøkende journalister. Med et levende engasjement og stor lidenskap har han i over 30 år avdekket sannheten om maktelitens innflytelse, det være seg apartheid i Sør-Afrika, Israels okkupasjon av Palestina, amerikansk utenrikspolitikk eller kommersialiseringen av journalistikk.
På et elegant vis har Pilger klart å avdekke det maktstrukturene verden over ønsker å holde skjult. Fokusert og konsekvent har han avdekket urettferdighet og imperialisme, i all hovedsak det som nesten aldri kommer frem i massemediene. Som en av sannhetsbevegelsens helter, er det med glede og begeistring vi ser ham få nok en velfortjent utmerkelse.

En mannsalder med erfaring
Pilger startet sin karriere som journalist etter studiene, hos Australian Consilidated Press, videre som reporter og underredaktør for Sydney Sunday Telegraph. Senere flyttet han til London hvor han jobbet for Reuters og Daily Mirror, hovedsakelig som utenrikskorrespondent. Han har arbeidet rundt om i hele verden, også som krigskorrespondent i blant annet Vietnamkrigen.
Siden 70-tallet har han skrevet bøker og laget dokumentarer som er blitt sterk kost for den globale eliten. Senest i fjor kom dokumentaren The War on Democracy med fokus på Latin-Amerika, hvor han utdyper forhistorien, så vel som dagens forhold mellom Washington og land som Chile, Venezuela og Bolivia. Som de fleste av hans dokumentarer er dette en alle bør se. Den som tror blindt på massemediene og deres glansbilde av USA vil måtte revurdere sitt standpunkt etter dette.
«The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don’t stand a chance.»
John Pilger
Mottatt en rekke priser
Pilger har mottatt en rekke priser for sitt journalistiske arbeid. Foruten flere britiske og internasjonale priser, har han to ganger fått utmerkelsen Journalist of the Year, Storbritannias mest fornemme utmerkelse for en journalist, for sine rapporter fra Vietnam og Kambodsja. Her i Norge har han mottatt Sofieprisen.
Den 5. november 2009 ble han altså tildelt Sydney Peace Prize, hvorpå han holdt en fremragende tale til verden og sitt hjemland Australia, en tale som burde få hans fredsprisrival Obama til å ville gå og gjemme seg.
Her er talen i tekstversjon. Liveversjonen kan sees på hovedsiden hans på www.johnpilger.com.
Jeg anbefaler alle en grundig gjennomgang av hans materiale, hva gjelder bøker, filmer og artikler. Her finner man godt dokumenterte fakta, intervjuer med nøkkelpersoner i alle posisjoner, samt dyptgående journalistikk om hendelser som for mange fortsatt er ukjent.
Dokumentarene hans ligger blant annet ute på Google Video. For de som ønsker en bedre kvalitet, kan de også kjøpes på Amazon eller liknende.

Flere dokumentarer
Her er direkte videolink til noen av de prisbelønnede dokumentarene hans:
The war on democracy
The rulers of the new world
Breaking the Silence – Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
War By Other Means
Inside Burma – Land of Fear
Nicaragua: A Nation’s Right to Survive
Year Zero – The Silent Death of Cambodia
Palestine Is Still The Issue
Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
Stealing a Nation
The Truth Game
Apartheid Did Not Die
Death of a Nation – The Timor Conspiracy
Flying the Flag – Arming the World
Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

Fredsprisvinneren 2025, María Corina Machado, mottager av CIA-støtte og deltager i World Economic Forum, sin merittliste:
On February 12, 2014, Machado joined the leader of Voluntad Popular, Leopoldo López, in a violent plan called La Salida which saw 43 citizens and members of the security forces murdered throughout the country. In many cases, citizens and security forces were shot in the face for trying to remove barricades set up by the far-right organizers of the so-called Guarimbas.
In March 2014, Machado, who was still an AN deputy, intended to speak before the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States as alternate ambassador of the government of Panama, an action that ultimately did not proceed.
The Venezuelan government asserted that by accepting this investiture, Machado had automatically resigned from her position as a parliamentarian, because it violated the provisions of the Constitution.
The then president of the National Assembly, Deputy Diosdado Cabello, explained that the action violated Article 191 of the Constitution, which establishes that parliamentarians “will not be able to hold public office for foreign governments without losing their investiture” except under specific exemptions for which Machado did not qualify.
Sanctions
With the arrival of the opposition majority in parliament in 2015 and the activation of Guaidó’s fake “interim government” in 2019, Machado became a fake “ambassador” and requested that the United States and its allies apply unilateral coercive measures to Venezuela. These “sanctions” cost Venezuela approximately US $642 billion between 2015 and 2022, as recently estimated by President Nicolas Maduro
In addition, she repeatedly requested the activation of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR), disguised as a “peace force,” which aimed to overthrow the president through violent means. Furthermore, Machado pushed for the use of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) imperialist doctrine as an alternative method to overthrow the government through foreign military intervention.
The seven reasons of the TSJ for her disqualification
• She engaged in the corruption plot orchestrated by the usurper Juan Guaidó, who promoted the criminal blockade of Venezuela.
• She supported the dispossession of the companies and wealth of the Venezuelan people abroad, including the seizure of CITGO holdings and petroleum corporation, which caused property damage of US $32.5 billion.
• She supported the dispossession of the Colombian-Venezuelan company Monómeros, which was returned to Venezuela bankrupted when President Petro took office in Colombia.
• She supported the illegal retention of 31 tons of gold by the Bank of England.
• She supported the freezing of $4 billion in the international financial system.
• Machado requested sanctions that prevented the purchase of medications for 60,000 HIV patients.
• She accepted the position of diplomatic representative of Panama before the Organization of American States.
Kilde: https://newcoldwar.org/maria-corina-machados-lengthy-criminal-record/
Venezuela’s foreign minister denounces fascist agenda of opposition leader María Corina Machado April 8, 2024
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil denounced this Sunday that one of the representatives of the violent right wing, María Corina Machado, sustains a fascist agenda to destabilize that nation and hinder its electoral process, an intention that has the full support of the United States Government.
Through the social network X, the diplomat expressed that “Hasta el final” — Until the end — a phrase used by the leader of the organization Vente Venezuela, reveals a fascist plan, backed by the White House, “to suffocate the Venezuelan people through perverse blockades and sanctions.”
Gil revealed an audio with Machado’s statements, which shows “the genocidal fantasy of this lady to satisfy her lust for power and to be the new puppet of her Yankee masters”. Questioned about the way in which other nations can commit interference and “collaborate” with the change of the revolutionary and popular government of Venezuela, she said that “yes they can collaborate by increasing the pressure until they provoke the breakdown and the departure of (constitutional president Nicolas) Maduro”.
The Venezuelan foreign minister detailed that “more sanctions” are needed, since in his opinion “they are working”. The audio also shows how he demands that they be increased and lead to “total financial asphyxiation”, regardless of how they may affect the welfare of the people.
The demand for more economic pressure measures, which in the case of Venezuela have been applied together with military, political and media aggression, constitute a repeated pattern in the discourse of Machado, who insists on imposing her candidacy for the July 28 presidential elections even though she was disqualified from holding public office for a period of 15 years for corruption and violence.
Kilde: https://www.radiorebelde.cu/english/venezuelas-foreign-minister-denounces-fascist-agenda-of-opposition-leader-maria-corina-machado-08042024/
The first contract between USAID and DAI for its Venezuela operations authorized $10 million for a two year period. DAI opened its doors in the Wall Street of Caracas, El Rosal, in August 2002, and began to immediately fund the same groups that just months earlier had executed – unsuccessfully – the coup against President Chávez.
The USAID/DAI funds in Venezuela were distributed to organizations such as Fedecámaras and the Confederación de Trabajadores Venezolanos (CTV), two of the principal entities that had led the coup in April 2002 and that later headed another attempt to oust Chávez by imposing an economic sabotage and oil industry strike that crippled the nation’s economy.
One contract between DAI and these organizations, dated December 2002, awarded more than $10,000 to help design radio and television propaganda against President Chávez. During that time period, Venezuela experienced one of the most viscious media wars in history. Private television and radio stations, together with print media, devoted non-stop programming to opposition propaganda for 64 days, 24 hours a day.
In February 2003, DAI began to fund a recently created group named Súmate, led by Maria Corina Machado, one of the signators of the “Carmona Decree”, the famous dictatorial decree that dissolved all of Venezuela’s democratic institutions during the brief April 2002 coup d’etat. Súmate soon became the principal opposition organization directing campaigns against President Chávez, including the August 2004 recall referendum. The three main agencies from Washington operating in Venezuela at that time, USAID, DAI and the National Endowment for Democracy (“NED”), invested more than $9 million in the opposition campaign to oust Chávez via recall referendum, without success. Chávez won with a 60-40 landslide victory.
Kilde: https://www.globalresearch.ca/cia-agent-captured-in-cuba/16533
María Corina Machado’s connections with the Republican Party date back almost two decades, when, in 2002, she was received in Washington DC by the then president of the United States, George W. Bush, with whom she had a meeting at the White House.
Since the end of the Obama administration and throughout Donald Trump’s presidential term, Rubio was one of the main proponents of the encirclement and siege of Venezuela, using his position as a US senator sponsored by corporate contributors from fossil fuels and mining sectors. His anti-Venezuela activities have continued throughout the Biden administration. Although he has mostly been focusing on Venezuela, he has also pursued similar agendas to destabilize Venezuela’s allies such as Cuba and Bolivia.
Marco Rubio is not only accused of political interference abroad by Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia. There have been equally scandalous and controversial accusations against him for influence peddling and criminal favors linked to drug trafficking.
María Corina Machado’s connections with the Republican Party date back almost two decades, when, in 2002, she was received in Washington DC by the then president of the United States, George W. Bush, with whom she had a meeting at the White House.
The Republican link has become more explicit since the United States launched the political strategy of economic and financial aggression against Venezuela through illegal sanctions, which was followed by an international campaign that tried to present the situation in Venezuela as a «humanitarian emergency» to justify different mechanisms of foreign interference.
María Corina Machado acted as the ideological and political vanguard of the initiatives that Republican Senator Marco Rubio and associated personalities were carrying out, such as the sanctions and other «humanitarian intervention» agendas.
The global energy crisis, caused by the coercive «sanctions» imposed by the United States against Russia, has influenced the concessions made by the White House. However, the White House has to manage the reactions to these concessions made by the anti-Venezuela lobby in Florida, involving «Venezuelan diaspora,» which is pushing for the continuation of the blockade against Venezuela and has rejected diplomatic rapprochement between the Biden administration and the government of President Maduro.
María Corina Machado is in complete harmony with these groups. In response to the imminent death of the «maximum pressure» strategy, she has raised her voice to ask the US government to reinforce the blockade against Venezuela and has repudiated the partial agreement signed by the representatives of the government and the Unitary Platform at the Mexico talks.
With such precedents, it is impossible to associate the image of María Corina Machado with that of a supposed positive change for Venezuela, an image she intends to present by claiming the status of an «outsider,» even though historically she has positioned herself as a political figure of the opposition establishment. The actors and influences that she promotes on Venezuelan soil come from outside the borders of the country and respond to political agendas in Florida and Washington DC.
Since the end of the Obama administration and throughout Donald Trump’s presidential term, Rubio was one of the main proponents of the encirclement and siege of Venezuela, using his position as a US senator sponsored by corporate contributors from fossil fuels and mining sectors. His anti-Venezuela activities have continued throughout the Biden administration. Although he has mostly been focusing on Venezuela, he has also pursued similar agendas to destabilize Venezuela’s allies such as Cuba and Bolivia.
Kilde: https://misionverdad.com/english/venezuela-opposition-politician-maria-corina-machados-ties-florida-republicans-and-bolivar
Ikke akkurat en verdig fredsprisvinner. Nobelkomiteen er og forblir et korrupt organ som avslører og latterliggjør seg selv med sine valg.
Charlie Chaplin 1940 The Grate Dictator
https://brandnewtube.com/v/Zt5POq
Lawyer Battling Medical Tyranny Exposes Globalist Mass Murderers with Their Own Words
https://brandnewtube.com/v/q5a3jq
Hvordan er utviklingen i «fredsprosessen» mellom Usa og Venezuela i dag?
UFO over Venezuela: Santa’s sleigh or a US spy drone?
Hugo Chavez is accusing the US of flying spy planes over Venezuela. Are the accusation true? If so, what is the US looking for, or what does Venezuela have to hide? (limt inn fra:
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Helt uventet var det jo ikke…
Eva Golinger: US to attack Venezuela:
A military agreement between the United States and Columbia has led to widespread concern in South America. Leaders want to know why the United States is trying to increase its military presence in the region.
Han har også skrevet en bok: «The New Rulers of the World»
Product Description
The award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger selects from his recent Guardian and New Statesman essays on power, its secrets and illusions, for this new collection. The New Rulers of the World tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization. It sets out to explain something of the «new» order—the unholy alliance of business interests, media magnates and imperial repression—and the importance of breaking the silence that protects great power and its manipulations.
The title is taken from his television film about the mythology of globalization, in which he revealed how General Suharto’s bloody seizure of power in Indonesia in the 1960s was part of a Western design that was the beginning of globalization in Asia. In this book, Pilger discloses more of a secret history which saw a million Indonesians die as the price for its mantle as the World Bank’s ‘model pupil.’ He also describes the price paid by the people of Iraq for the West’s decade-long embargo of that country. Returning to his homeland, Australia, he looks behind the hype that led up to the Millennium Olympics in Sydney, reflecting on Australia’s continuing subjugation of its Aboriginal people. Following the terrorist attacks on America and the bombing of Afghanistan, he looks at the new thrust of American power and its goal of world order, and the propaganda that helps drive it
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Flott at du har gjort oss oppmerksom på John Pilger. Virkelig interessant.
At han også fikk Gaarders Sofiepris i 2003 var interessant:
http://www.sophieprize.org/Norsk/Prisvinnere/2003/index.html
Og hvor var John Pilger under Gaza krigen ??
åå det glemte jeg, dagen journalister er ikke så nøye med fakta, dem fikk jo ikke lov til og oppholde seg i gaza for Israel.
For dagens journalister er det blitt veldigt viktigt og ikke gjøre noe som eliten sier dem ikke får lov til.
Prisen kan han henge rundt halsen på en far eller mor som bærer sine døde barn til graven i Gaza, Pakistan, Sri Lanka eller andre plasser der en kan få bot vist en oppholder seg og forklare dem hvorfor det ikke var NOEN som reporterte derfra!
Du har helt rett, var ikke spess Pilger men journalister generelt jeg tenkte på.
Er ikke en krig som blir dekka lenger og alle overgrep og brudd på menneskerettigheter blir skjult.
Er kun propaganaen fra stridene parter som kommer ut i main stream media.
Husker Erik Fosse og Mads Gilbert skulle være med i Skavlan i Mars, men ble avlyst 5 min før sendetid for Skavlan tok inn Ari Behn istede siden han var sinna på en gammel hoffreporter.
Men var kanskje press på skavlan fra Israels venner på tinget ….
Før i tiden så satsa jorunalistene livet på og krype rundt i krigsområder for og få fakta ut til verden, men sånn er dem ikke lenger, nå bare referer dem fra andre kilder og kan knapt kalles journalister lenger!
Flott Artikkel foresten Øyvind :)
Tusen takk for dette Øyvind! Det fins flere mennesker der ute som har tatt på seg denne «avsløring» om makten bak makten som sitt livsoppgave her på jorden. Synd for sovende masser at uten deres bidrag er forandring i verden uungåelig, siden en persons bidrag er altfor lite i den store sammenhengen som kreves å forkaste århundrer gamle makt oligarkier, og hente makten tilbake til folket.
Derfor sier Zions de vises protokoller:
«4. IT IS FROM US THAT THE ALL-ENGULFING TERROR PROCEEDS. WE HAVE IN OUR SERVICE PERSONS OF ALL OPINIONS, OF ALL DOCTRINES, RESTORATING MONARCHISTS, DEMAGOGUES, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, AND UTOPIAN DREAMERS OF EVERY KIND. We have harnessed them all to the task: EACH ONE OF THEM ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT IS BORING AWAY AT THE LAST REMNANTS OF AUTHORITY, IS STRIVING TO OVERTHROW ALL ESTABLISHED FORM OF ORDER. By these acts all States are in torture; they exhort to tranquility, are ready to sacrifice everything for peace: BUT WE WILL NOT GIVE THEM PEACE UNTIL THEY OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR INTERNATIONAL SUPER-GOVERNMENT, AND WITH SUBMISSIVENESS»
http://www.aztlan.net/protocols.htm
Mainstream verden kaller disse protokollene for å være en storstilt «hoax», mens månelanding 1969, 9/11 falseflags, federel reserve 1913 osv er «fakta» som skjedde på «naturlig» vis… :D
Bare sov videre mitt lille Norge… God JUL!