New Pilger film
In two weeks, John Pilger has a new documentary on ITV1. Expect it to be shown just before midnight. The initial quotation marks evoke Pilger’s resonant contempt.
“On Monday, September 22, ITV will show John Pilger’s latest documentary for Carlton Television. Pilger and his team filmed in Afghanistan and the United States and acquired previously unseen material from Iraq.
The film investigates George W Bush’s ‘war on terror’. In ‘liberated’ Afghanistan, America has its military base and pipeline access, while the people have the warlords who are, says one women, “in many ways worse than the Taliban’.
In Washington, a series of remarkable interviews includes senior Bush officials and former intelligence officers. In the week that the Hutton inquiry into the death of the British scientist Dr David Kelly releases its report, a former senior CIA official tells Pilger that the whole issue of weapons of mass destruction was ‘95 per cent charade’.”
The other five percent were adverts…
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- John Pilger Just seen John Pilger�s documentary…
- Here we go again
- Correction required
- John Pilger - The other tsunami
- The easy bit
