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."
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.
John Pilger is one of the world’s renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, 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 dies as the price for being the World Bank’s ‘model pupil’. In a shocking chapter on Iraq, he allows us to understand 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 of his homeland, Australia, to illuminate an enduring legacy of imperialism, the subjugation of the First Australians.
This text is a vivid, engrossing, and at times blackly amusing history and personal story covering the periods for which his journalism is renowned
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
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.
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.