John Pilger's No Middle Ground in the Middle East

aka: Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq; Palenstine is Still the Issue; Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
UK 2000-2003, 158 minutes
Dir. John Pilger, Alan Lowery
Rating: [Exempt]
Genres: Documentary / War, Hostages & Terrorism

Topics: Politics.

Feat. John Pilger

Aroview: Three of journalist John Pilger’s most recent and cogent illustrations of the plight of the Middle East, with Iraq, foreign policy, Israel and Palestine, and the pervading War on Terror his targets of choice.

Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq (2000) – Economic sanctions and the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein come under the microscope as Pilger travels to Iraq with a former assistant secretary-general of the UN.

Palestine is Still the Issue (2002) – Revisiting the occupied territory that was the subject of a documentary Pilger made in 1974, nearly 30 years on the journalist finds the West Bank and Gaza to be in an unchanged state of turmoil.

Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2003) – The Bush Administration’s War on Terror is deconstructed as Pilger investigates the situation in Afghanistan and Iraq, before returning to Washington in search of answers.