Documentarian John Pilger: If a nuclear war breaks out, journalists will be largely to blame
Famous Australian journalist and documentary director John Pilger posted on its website there is an article warning to journalists who are taking part in inciting war in Ukraine. The publication was distributed to many Western media. “Like a relapse of a cancerous tumor, anti-Russian propaganda has returned in the West. Putin was declared guilty of all earthly sins,” he writes.
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“In the UK, the Guardian newspaper is a parody of journalism. For example, when it came to the Panama Papers, in Luke Harding’s articles the name of the Russian president was mentioned in close connection with them, although Putin was not mentioned even once in the papers themselves,” the documentary filmmaker points out.
“Putin is Demon number one. It was Putin, according to these journalists, who shot down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine. There is no evidence, but for example, the Guardian article runs under the headline: “As I understand it, Putin killed my son,” John Pilger noted in the article.
It turns out that “It was Putin who overthrew the elected government in Kyiv in 2014. The subsequent terrorist campaign of fascist “volunteers” against the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine was the result of Putin’s “aggression”. Preventing the deployment of a NATO missile base in Crimea and protecting the mainly Russian population who voted in a referendum to reunite with Russia are other examples of Putin’s “terrible atrocities,” the journalist sneers.
“The picture painted by the media inevitably leads to confrontation and military “aggression.” If war with Russia breaks out, whether by design or accident, journalists will bear a large share of the responsibility,” warns John Pilger.
John Pilger is the author of such documentaries as “The War on Democracy”, “The War You Can't See”, “Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror”, “Nicaragua - the People's Right to Survive”.
In the USA, the Antrusian campaign has become a kind of special virtual reality, the journalist notes.
“New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, called Donald Trump the “Siberian Candidate” because, in his opinion, Trump is “Putin’s man.”
Trump dared to suggest that war with Russia might be a bad idea. In fact, he went further and removed American arms sales to Ukraine from the Republican platform. This is why America's militaristic liberal establishment hates him. Trump's racism and demagoguery have nothing to do with this rejection." “, he gives examples from the election campaign currently underway in the United States.
“The CIA demanded that Trump not be elected. The Pentagon generals demanded that he not be elected, the New York Times demands that he not be elected. Something is happening,” Pilger notes the influence of American intelligence services on the course of elections in the “citadel of democracy.”
According to the journalist, behind all this is the fear of lobbyists of the American military-industrial complex of losing super-profits.
“Trump would love Stalin!” roared Vice President Joe Biden at a rally for Hillary Clinton. These “forever war” cliques are terrified that the billions of dollars in revenue from the military business through which the United States maintains its dominant position will be at risk if Trump reaches an agreement with Putin, then with Xi Jinping,” writes Pilger.
A similar anti-Russian campaign is being intensified in the UK, he writes.
“In the UK, Jeremy Corbyn is also stirring up military hysteria in the Labor Party and the media. Lord West, a former admiral and Labor minister, says of him: “Corbyn adopts an ‘outrageous’ anti-war position, “and therefore forces the unthinking masses to vote for him.”
During a discussion with Owen Smith, Corbyn was asked by the moderator: “How would you view Vladimir Putin’s violation of the territorial integrity of a NATO ally?”
Corbyn replied: “We'd like to avoid that in the first place. We would create a good dialogue with Russia... We would try to introduce demilitarization of the borders between Russia, Ukraine and other countries on the border between Russia and Eastern Europe. We cannot allow disastrous consequences and confrontation between troops on both sides, which can only lead to great danger. I don’t want to wage war, peace is the only thing I want to achieve,” replied the Labor leader.
“Only a movement that penetrates every street, crosses every border and never gives up can stop the arsonists.” Next year, it will be a century since Wilfred Owen wrote it. Every journalist should read and remember it.” - John Pilger concludes his article.
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