John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and do
cumentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets
and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how Gene
ral 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'. Ina shocking chapter on Iraq, he allo
ws 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.
