strypey,

that legendary Australian journalist John Pilger died at the end of last year;

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/01/john-pilger-obituary

Like Robert Fisk, who died a couple of years agio, Pilger was a huge influence on both my attitude to journalism, and my approach to a number of geopolitical issues over the decades.

strypey,

"Among more than 60 documentaries, Pilger also made Stealing a Nation (2004), on the British government expelling the population of the Chagos Islands, in the Indian Ocean, in the 60s so that the US could set up a military base there."

, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/01/john-pilger-obituary

Chagos Islanders are arguably the rightful owners of the country TLD .io (for Indian Ocean). See the .io Wikipedia page for the history.

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