The New Rulers of the World
Now with a new introduction, this remains one of the most shocking investigations of contemporary power.
Reviews
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“John Pilger’s work has been a beacon of light in often dark times. The realities he has brought to light have been a revelation, over and over again, and his courage and insight a constant inspiration.”
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“What makes John Pilger a truly great journalist is his conscience and bravery.”
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“John Pilger is fearless. He unearths, with steely attention to facts, the filthy truth, and tells it as it is. I salute him.”
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“Surely the most outstanding journalist in the world today.”
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“Pilger [has a] gift for finding the image, the instant, that reveals all. He is a photographer using words instead of a camera.”
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“A first-rate dissident journalist.”
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“Pilger is unique not just for his undimmed anger but also for the sharpness of his focus, the range of targets that he chooses and the meticulous precision with which he hits them—often with their own words.”
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“[Pilger’s essays] are all empirical, angry and well-referenced; they illustrate his essential argument that the imperial power wielded by rich states and multinational corporations, led by the US, is far more destructive than any terrorist organization.”
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“Pilger and others have helped expose the realist myth of impersonal laws governing actions of states. They rake the muck on which the power and wealth of states and corporations are founded, and the stench is awesome.”
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“It is harder to condescend away all that cogent argument and still more that clearly marshalled chapter and verse: this is a book to spoil any westerner’s weekend.”
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“The issues Pilger addresses are fundamental to any notions we have of establishing genuine international justice and democracy, and this book should be compulsory reading for all.”
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“Despite decades of familiarity with the terrors of war, Pilger’s courage in speaking out remains undimmed.”
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“Outstanding and horrifying.”
Blog
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Australia Day: Patrick Wolfe on the Racialisation of Indigenous People in Australia
On the 26th January every year, people from all over Australia celebrate the founding of the British colony there. But what about the indigenous people who came before the British?
In this unsettling extract from Patrick Wolfe's new book Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Racism, Wolfe focuses his attention on the process of racialisation of the indigenous people of Australia. This racialisation was a product of Britain's insatiable lust for land which would be used to cultivate the raw materials needed for the booming Industrial Revolution. In this way, settler colonialism was intrinsic to modernity. Yet, as Wolfe notes, "for Indigenous people, the concept of settler democracy can only be an oxymoron. Their attrition at the hands of that democracy reflects the core feature of settler colonialism, which is first and foremost a project of replacement. Settlers come to stay. In relation to Natives, as I have argued, settler colonialism is governed by a logic of elimination."
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The revolutionary act of telling the truth - John Pilger at the London launch of The WikiLeaks Files.
The following is a transcript of John Pilger's opening speech at the London launch of The WikiLeaks Files.
George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
These are dark times, in which the propaganda of deceit touches all our lives. It is as if political reality has been privatised and illusion legitimised. The information age is a media age. We have politics by media; censorship by media; war by media; retribution by media; diversion by media - a surreal assembly line of clichés and false assumptions.
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