De Australische journalist en documentairemaker John Pilger staat bekend om zijn polemische en actiegerichte stijl. Zijn werk is erop gericht verborgen machtsstructuren te ontmaskeren en op te komen voor de onderdrukten. Pilgers documentaires, bekroond in zowel Groot-Brittannië als de VS, hebben hem samen met zijn journalistieke inspanningen aanzienlijke erkenning opgeleverd. Zijn aanpak wordt gekenmerkt door de toewijding om "schermen weg te trekken, achter gevels te kijken, stenen om te draaien".
In Freedom Next Time he looks at five countries, in each of which a long struggle for freedom has taken place; In Afghanistan, Iraq and South Africa there has been the promise of hope, and even an 'official' freedom, but the reality of these divided societies is that they are still waiting for real freedom.
The book - a selection of articles, broadcasts and books extracts that revealed important and disturbing truths - ranges from across many of the critical events, scandals and struggles of the past fifty years. Along the way it bears witness to epic injustices committed against the peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Palestine.
Justice and human struggle around the globe have been the recurring themes throughout John Pilger's 30 years of making television documentaries. This work examines the journalist and his long career on the small screen, one unparalleled by others outside regular current affairs programs.
Award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger selects from his recent Guardian and New Statesman essays on power, its secrets and illusions, for this new collection. The title is taken from his television film about the mythology of globalisation, in which he revealed how General Suharto's bloody seizure of power in Indonesia in the 1960s was part of a Western design that was the beginning of globalisation in Asia.In this book, Pilger discloses more of a secret history which saw a million Indonesians as the price for its mantle as the World Bank's 'model pupil'. He also describes the price paid by the people of Iraq for the West's decade-long embargo of that country. Returning to his homeland, Australia, he looks behind the hype that led up to the Millennium Olympics in Sydney, reflecting on Australia's continuing subjugation of its Aboriginal people. Following the terrorist attacks in America and the bombing in Afghanistan, he looks at the new thrust of American power and its goal of world order, and the propaganda that helps drive it.
The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo. Introduction by John Pilger
s/t: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist & Myth Maker The First Casualty is a disturbing book because it suggests that attitudes to history are moulded by what's read in war-time & that what's read too often bears little resemblance to reality. The Miserable Parent of a Luckless Tribe The First Challenge The Golden Age Quite Another Game The Last War Enter America The Remedy for Bolshevism Is Bullets The Real Scoop Commitment in Spain Their Finest Hour The Struggle for Mother Russia Remember Pearl Harbor Never Again Korea, the United Nations' War Algeria Is French Vietname War Is Fun Acknowledgements Notes of Sources Selected Bibliography Index
This is a new edition of Susan George's acclaimed satire on capitalism. Fictional experts recruited by world leaders to discuss the future of global capitalism provide their assessment of the dire state of the current economy and put forward new ideas for ensuring the survival of the system. But at what cost? Susan George provides a brilliant and chilling vision of the way the winners in the globalisation game profit from poverty and reveals, with relentless logic, the dark future that lies ahead under capitalism. This new edition features a new introduction from the author.
In this book John Pilger strips away the layers of deception, dissembling language and ommision that prevent us from understanding how the world really works. From the invisible corners of Tony Blair's New Britain to Burma, Vietnam, Australia, South Africa and the illusions of the 'media age', power, he argues, has its own agenda. Unchallenged, it operates to protect its interests with a cynical disregard for people - shaping, and often devastating, millions of lives
De internationale bestseller Helden zonder glorie van National Book Award winnaar Norman Mailer behoort tot de moderne klassiekers van de Amerikaanse literatuur. Simon Vestdijk vond Helden zonder glorie indertijd een betere roman dan Tolstoi’s Oorlog en vrede - en een betere is ook sindsdien niet meer verschenen. Dat oorlog zinloos en wreed is, werd eerder gezegd, maar nimmer werd het zo meedogenloos inzichtelijk gemaakt als in dit meeslepende epos van gewone Amerikaanse jongens die zich in een allesvermalende oorlogsmachinerie staande moeten zien te houden. Vaak zonder succes en nooit zonder blijvende littekens. ‘Slechts de onschuldigen zijn gezond en de onschuldige mens is een bijna uitgestorven diersoort.’
Folowing on from "Heroes", this book includes articles/essays from the award-winning journalist. The pieces in the book look at the Gulf War, world poverty, Cambodia, England, Australia and analyses why there are so few distant voices of dissent in the media the world over.
Paperback release (with minor changes) of the controversial and passionate 1989 portrait of Australia's Tdark side': racially discriminatory, and, in the case of Aborigines, oppressive; politically and militarily dependent on foreign powers; and betrayed by politicians working in collusion with the financial kingpins. Pilger, an expatriate Australian, is a documentary maker and former war correspondent.
Highlights the silence of early historians about violent conflict; discusses contemporary issues; includes interviews with B. Randall and C. Perkins.
