{"id":175647,"date":"2020-12-28T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T12:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=175647"},"modified":"2020-12-23T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T09:38:59","slug":"john-pilger-on-the-new-cold-war-with-china-bidens-victory-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/12\/john-pilger-on-the-new-cold-war-with-china-bidens-victory-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pilger on the New Cold War with China, Biden\u2019s Victory, Coronavirus (\u2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>19 Dec 2020 &#8211; <\/em>John Pilger discusses the devastating impact of Covid-19 in the UK, rising poverty and militarism, the Western logic for the new Cold War with China, the victory of Joe Biden over Donald Trump, why not much will change in the White House, the Yemen War, the survival of Venezuela despite crippling international sanctions, mainstream journalism vs. real journalism&#8211;and more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 854px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-175647-1\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/John-Pilger-RT.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/John-Pilger-RT.mp4\" >https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/John-Pilger-RT.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>John Pilger has won an Emmy and a BAFTA for his documentaries<\/strong>, which have also won numerous US and European awards. His articles appear worldwide in newspapers such as <\/em>The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Mail &amp; Guardian (<em>South Africa<\/em>), Aftonbladet (<em>Sweden<\/em>), Il Manifesto <em>(Italy). He writes a regular column for the <\/em>New Statesman<em>, London. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious Sophie Prize for \u201930 years of exposing injustice and promoting human rights.\u2019 In 2009 he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize. His earlier film is <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/johnpilger.com\/videos\/the-war-you-dont-see-trailer\" >The War You Don\u2019t See<\/a><em> (2010). His new film,<\/em> The Coming War on China, <em>is available in the U.S. from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bullfrogfilms.com\/\" >www.bullfrogfilms.com<\/a>. He can be reached through his website <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpilger.com\/\" >www.johnpilger.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 Dec 2020 &#8211; John Pilger discusses the devastating impact of Covid-19 in the UK, rising poverty and militarism, the Western logic for the new Cold War with China, the victory of Joe Biden over Donald Trump, why not much will change in the White House, the Yemen War, the survival of Venezuela despite crippling international sanctions, mainstream journalism vs. real journalism&#8211;and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[867,1817,2197,244,2051,1868,392,1126,1050,1392,996,278,923,249,70,557,71,174],"class_list":["post-175647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-anglo-america","tag-anti-militarism","tag-biden","tag-china","tag-cold-war-iii","tag-covid-19","tag-elections","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-john-pilger","tag-poverty","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-venezuela","tag-white-house","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}