John Pilger interviewed by Amy Goodman. Download the interview, which starts at 21'30, [MP3, 27Mb].
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Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the media, health care, and Obama’s wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pilger has has written close to a dozen books and made over 50 documentaries on a range of subjects including struggles around the world for a more just and peaceful society and against Western military and economic intervention.

From the events in Honduras we step back to reflect on how the media has been covering the coup in that country. Last week award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger was visiting the United States.

Pilger was born in Australia but has lived in London since the 1960s and began his career as a hard-hitting war reporter covering the Vietnam war in 1967. He has written close to a dozen books and made over 50 documentaries on a range of subjects including struggles around the world for a more just and peaceful society and against Western military and economic intervention.

Last week, I had had a wide-ranging conversation with John Pilger, on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the media, healthcare, and Obama’s wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.