The Coming War on China - True Story Documentary Channel
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The Coming War on China, from award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn’t – that the world’s greatest military power, the United Stat...
  • Makan
    3·
    4 years ago

    John Pilger also once wrote a great article about the 1972 coup in Australia with Gough Whitlam (or was that 1974? I forget the years sometimes… 😅)

  • Muad'DibberA
    2·
    4 years ago

    I watched this a few months ago. Even tho Pilger does do the annoying westerner questioning why “china has no democracy”, he also does a good job of laying out the US’s extremely hawkish positions in SE asia.

    And 1/4th of it focuses on the US testing atomic weapons on pacific islanders in order to observe the effects of radiation is really worth watching.

    • BobsonDugnuttOP
      2·
      4 years ago

      Pilger regularly writes for Red Flag newspaper which I’m sure is going to come as a shock to you when you learn that it’s a Trotskyist newspaper. I think that speaks volumes about the editorial line that he takes in this documentary — good on anti-imperialism, bad on AES.

  • BobsonDugnuttOP
    1·
    4 years ago

    Note that this documentary is almost 5 years old now so it might be a little out of date in some aspects however it’s useful as a measuring stick to analyze how things have progressed since the release.