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Award-winning British journalist Pilger, author of A Secret Country: The Hidden Australia (1992), looks again for the truth behind Orwellian officialdom in Great Britain, the US, South Africa, Indonesia, and, most notably, Burma. Pilger makes a clear and disturbing case that US management of the media in the Gulf War covered up one-quarter of a million deaths, most of them civilian. And the reader may well follow his claims, US protests to the contrary, that the subsequent embargo kept food out of the mouths of children and medicine from the sick. But to go light on his criticism of Saddam Hussein or to claim that Israel is nothing but a US client state that has committed more acts of terrorism that any other Middle East entity seems like old Soviet propaganda, rather than truth. Pilger is, in fact, fervently anticapitalist in the manner of an old-style Soviet apparatchik. Thus, one cannot entirely trust his critique of big media such as CNN and the various enterprises of Rupert Murdoch, though such criticism is gratifying and long overdue. Pilger strikes home the most convincingly when he takes on British arms merchants, and he does so by sticking to numbers and actual quotations from officials. He's at his most passionate in his two chapters on modern Burma, writing about a railroad and an oil pipeline being built with slave labor, even with child labor. One would hardly expect Pilger to say kind things about Burma's generals, and he documents the collusion of multinational companies in the exploitation of Burma, but even here one senses that a fine reporter has veered into pamphleteering. A brave and badly needed corrective that itself seems untrustworthy at times but manages to point out the lies behind slick official policy and criticize the media that sell them, even so. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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A collection of essays by acclaimed journalist and foreign correspondent, John Pilger, covering a diverse range of subjects from Burma and East Timor to modern Vietnam, the power of the media and British politics. A powerful and revealing collection which goes some way towards stripping away the layers of deception, dissembling language and omission that prevent us from understanding how the world really works.
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Pilger's book is essential reading for anyone who is looking for more than corporate media. His chapters on Vietnam and the Gulf War truly bring a human element to events that have largely been glossed over by statistics and overblown patriotism. The focus of Hidden Agendas was primarily on the abuses of the British government. Though I would have liked a little more emphasis on the United States (being a resident) I still found this book to be one of the best of its kind
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Unrestrained rage at the steady decline in democracy, from the British press to the resistance in Burma. The writing style is lively and personal --- he makes sure every political cause is presented with a human face. Thank you, John Pilger, for a great book.
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Once again, John Pilger has looked beneath the smug, facile face of modern journalism to produce a book which tells the truth about issues across the world. From the horrors of Burma, to the hypocrisy of Anzac Day in Australia to poverty in Blair's New Britain, Pilger tells the truth that other journalists will not touch. Pilger is a thorn in the side of the establishment telling the stories that they would rather we didn't hear. Moreover, his writing style is accessible - you don't need a vocabulary the size of a dictionary to read his books. But most of all, Pilger is passionate about injustice and inequality and fighting to change these, and this most of all is what makes his books worth reading.
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A compelling look into the world beyond CNN and the mall
John Pilger, like Noam Chomsky, is one of the few writers and public figures who have the tenacity, courage and intelligence to see the world beyond the comfort zone of CNN, the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Oktober 1999 von Rm Pithouse
Reveals ture hypocritic faces of some "liberal" politicians
The chapters on American and British politicians and military hegemony are great but frightening. The chapters on media control are excellent but sad.
Am 2. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
The usual Left-wing propaganda
The usual left-wing propaganda. Pilger's obsessions become utterly boring
Am 1. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
A crucial testament to our age
Having read Heroes, I regarded it as one of the most significant collections of sketches of the latter Cold War years, when the disturbing truth began to dawn that the Cold War was... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
The truth is out there
A briliant book, read it with an open mind and find out just who are the real terrrorists in the modern world, a must read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Very revealing, though biased
When reading this book I frequently had feelings of horror at the things that governments do 'behind the scenes', anger that they do it, and despair at the appalling human... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
An elegent overview of the narrowing of political debate
This gives an overview of the decline of moral engagement within modern western political life. Using examples from the world of news management, Pilger shows that this is an... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
What the Western governments don't want you to know.
As usual, Pilger tells us the stories the western press never get around to telling. Pilger is tireless in his pusuit of the truth and I think we are lucky that there are still... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
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