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Today on Flashpoints:
We spend most of the hour with legendary filmmaker John Pilger;
for decades, Pilger has been sifting through a mountain of
government lies for the truth. We talk to him on Flashpoints
today about his article in the New Statesman on media control,
and his new award-winning documentary, Stealing A Nation,
about the purging of the native population of the Chagos islands
by the British in order to build a US military base;
5:01 PM PST
John Pilger on Iraq, the Media and Stealing A Nation: John
Pilger, journalist and filmmaker - The media coverage of this
past election was a pastiche. Our right to know what our rulers
are doing to people the world over is being lost in the new
propaganda consensus. John Pilger
Read the entire New
Statesman Article
5:35 PM PST
Stealing A Nation: Excerpts from John Pilger's new film which
documents the planning, execution and cover-up of a US-British
scheme to "cleanse and sanitize" the Indian Ocean
island of Diego Garcia for military expropriation. The gentle
Chagosians who had lived there for generations were brutally
expelled from their idyllic island home in the 1970s, left
without hope in abject poverty and squalor. The film also
covers the aftermath of the tragedy and the ongoing struggle
for justice.
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