Dr. John Pilger is the recipient of numerous honorary doctorates and titles, including the Edward Wilson Fellowship from Deakin University, Melbourne, Frank H.T. Rhodes Professorship from Cornell University, and from Oxford Brookes University. A prolific filmmaker, he has made 59 documentaries to date, all of which challenge Establishment claims, from healthcare to nuclear weapons.       Born in Bondi, Sydney, Australia, he launched his first newspaper at Sydney High School and later completed a four-year cadetship with Australian Consolidated Press. Having written numerous articles and made numerous documentaries on the subject, he is a keen defender of the rights of Aborigines, who remain oppressed and slandered by the Australian government and mainstream media.      After moving to the UK, Pilger joined Reuters and moved to the Daily Mirror, Britain's biggest selling newspaper. He became chief foreign correspondent and reported from all over the world, covering numerous wars, notably Vietnam. Still in his twenties, he became the youngest journalist to receive Britain's highest award for journalism, Journalist of the Year and was the first to win it twice.       The combined impact of his Mirror reports and his subsequent documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia, raised almost $50 million for the people of that stricken country. Similarly, his 1994 documentary and dispatches report from East Timor, where he travelled under cover, helped galvanise support for the East Timorese, occupied by Indonesia. In Britain, his four-year investigation on behalf of a group of children damaged at birth by the drug Thalidomide, and left out of the settlement with the drugs company, resulted in a special settlement.       He has won over 20 major awards, including an Emmy, the UN Media Peace Prize, a BAFTA, Reporters San Frontiers Award, and many others. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious Sophie Prize for '30 years of exposing injustice and promoting human rights.' In 2009, he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize.      Writing for the Guardian, the Independent, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Mail & Guardian (South Africa), Aftonbladet (Sweden), and others, Pilger has written several books, including Hidden Agendas, The New Rulers of the World, and Freedom Next Time. He also edited Tell Me No Lies, in which he shined a light on the works of young, courageous, and independent journalists. His new film is about America's 'pivot' to Asia, particularly its threats to China.
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