Prison scandals, terrorism, corporate fraud, election rigging--most likely you have heard something of the sort in the last ten minutes. But what is truth and what is part of the great -washout- of biased reporting? A celebration of lucid investigative reporting, selected by titan of the craft John Pilger, could come at no better moment. Pilger's book travels through contemporary history, from war correspondent Martha Gelhorn's wrenching 1945 account of the liberation of Dachau to Edward R. Murrow's groundbreaking excavation of McCarthyism to recent coverage of the war in Iraq. This homage to...

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.

Published to coincide with a John Pilger television documentary on East Timor, this expanded edition of his bestselling book contains all the original essays - from the myth-making of the Gulf War to the surreal pleasures of Disneyworld - together with new material, the centrepiece of which is Pilger's reporting from East Timor, where a third of the population have died as a result of Indonesia's genocidal policies since 1975.

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...