Amaranta Wright was a young writer living in Miami when Levi's hired her to travel through Latin America. Her brief was to befriend teenagers and report back with every aspect of their lives: their hopes, fears, dreams and aspirations. At first, she saw the job as a means to travel around a continent she loved. But as time passed, the more sinister and divisive aspects of what she was being asked to do became apparent, her attempts to understand the dispossessed of these countries constantly frustrated by the mechanics of corporate globalisation - its unspoken aim to reduce individuals to bullet points. This is a compellingly humane portrait of a continent in crisis - riddled with paradox, complexity, beauty and brutality. It is a book about the arrogance with which we in the West refer to 'developing' continents, the developed world's overarching desire to turn people into consumers, and the often insidious methods employed to this end. It is about what happens when indigenous voices are silenced by corporate vision. An evocative, startling and politically-incisive book.
John Pilger Book order (chronological)
Australian journalist and documentary maker John Pilger is renowned for his polemical and campaigning style. His work consistently seeks to expose hidden power structures and advocate for the oppressed. Pilger's documentaries, recognized with awards in both Britain and the US, along with his journalistic endeavors, have earned him significant accolades. His approach is defined by a commitment to "pushing back screens, peering behind façades, lifting rocks."






World–renowned journalist John Pilger looks at five nations (Palestine, Diego Garcia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and South Africa) that have undergone long and painful struggles for freedom, yet are still waiting for its realization.
Tell Me No Lies
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
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.
The New Rulers of the World: With a New Introduction
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Pilger tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization and exposes the terrible truth behind the power and wealth of states and corporations John Pilger is one of the world’s renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suharto’s bloody seizure of power in the 1960s was part of a western design to impose a “global economy” on Asia. A million Indonesians died as the price for being the World Bank’s “model pupil.” In a shocking chapter on Iraq, he delineates the true nature of the West’s war against the people of that country. And he dissects, piece by piece, the propaganda of the ‘war on terror’ to expose its Orwellian truth. Finally, he looks behind the picture-postcard image of his homeland, Australia, to illuminate an enduring legacy of imperialism: the subjugation of the First Australians. Now with a new introduction, this remains one of the most shocking investigations of contemporary power.
The First Casualty
The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo. Introduction by John Pilger
- 574 pages
- 21 hours of reading
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 report is not what is seems. It is written entirely by the leading development specialist Susan George. Although a spoof report, it is based on fact and illustrates the logical processes of the world economy as we approach the new century. Written from the perspective of one in broad support of the systems of global power, Susan George is in fact deeply critical of the state of the world. Through her unique style of approach to her subject, George paints a worrying picture of the world over the next 25 years.
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
The Naked and the Dead
- 736 pages
- 26 hours of reading
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer.Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailer's age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.
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.
A Secret Country
- 390 pages
- 14 hours of reading
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.
Heroes
- 608 pages
- 22 hours of reading
Highlights the silence of early historians about violent conflict; discusses contemporary issues; includes interviews with B. Randall and C. Perkins.





