Australian investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who spent 60 years reporting on war, imperialism, and Western foreign policy from a radical anti-imperialist perspective.
Cambodia reporting (1979): among the first journalists to expose the scale of the Khmer Rouge's atrocities and the subsequent Thai/Western support for them. Documentary films: Year Zero, Death of a Nation, The War on Democracy, The Coming War on China. Consistent and unfashionable anti-imperialist critique: covering East Timor, Iraq, Palestine, Julian Assange — frequently in opposition to mainstream media consensus.
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