John Pilger [John Pilger] - Hidden Agendas

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In this powerful book, journalist and film maker John Pilger strips away the layers of deception, dissembling language and omission that prevent us from understanding how the world really works.

From the invisible corners of Tony Blairs 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.

By unravelling the hidden histories of contemporary events, Pilger allows us to read between the lines. He also celebrates the eloquent defiance and courage of those who resist oppression and give us hope for the future. Tenaciously researched and written with passion and wit, Hidden Agendas will change the way you see the world.

John Pilger grew up in Sydney, Australia. He has been a war correspondent, author and film-maker. He has twice won British journalisms highest award, that of Journalist of the Year, for his work all over the world, notably in Vietnam and Cambodia. Among a number of other awards, he has been International Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations Association Media Peace Prize. For his broadcasting, he has won Frances Reporter sans Frontires, an American television Academy Award, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He lives in London.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four

Also available in Vintage

John Pilger

John Pilger is the antidote to easy, comfortable thinking, to smugness, to ignorance

Daily Telegraph

The heroes of John Pilgers narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and often brutal conditions: dissidents in the Soviet Union; victims of conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Africa, India, the Middle East and Central America. They also include the Irish labouring generation of his great-great-grandfather, transported in irons to Australia for uttering unlawful oaths. It is a vivid, engrossing and sometimes blackly amusing personal story covering the periods for which his journalism is renowned. John Pilger has witnessed many of the major world upheavals of the past thirty years, as well as the daily realities of injustices normally hidden from societys view, and his reporting of these events has always been distinguished by his compassion for the ordinary people caught up in them, and the intense desire to tell the truth.

Pilger is the closest we have to the great correspondents of the 1930s. The truth in his hands is a weapon, to be picked up and used in the struggle against injustice

Guardian

Pilger has a gift for finding the image, the instant, that reveals all. He is a photographer using words instead of a camera

Salman Rushdie

TO THE MEMORY OF MARTHA GELLHORN,

AND FOR JANE, JOS, SAM AND ZO

The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.

ABC see Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Abdication crisis 3823, 400

Aborigines, Australian 12, 2302, 2389, 2448

genocide 223, 23944

Native Title legislation 2348, 246

Action from Ireland: Famine Walk 3612, 364, 366

Adams, Gerry 515, 518

Adams, Jack 358

Adelaide Advertiser 482

Adie, Kate 50, 512, 55, 578, 485

Africa 9, 531

see Kenya; Nigeria; South Africa

Age (Melbourne newspaper) 265, 483, 542

Agence France Presse 531

Agent Orange 56, 581, 587

Ahmed, Moudud 405

Aid for Trade Provisions (ATP) 121

Aird, Malcolm 563

Aitken, Jonathan 1301, 495

Ajibade, Kunle 15

Alatas, Ali 257, 264, 272

Albright, Madeleine 54

Alexandra, Queen 380

Algeria: death of journalists 545

Allende, Salvador 63, 64, 123, 330

Alliance of Independent Journalists 137

Allman, T. D. 525

Amin, Idi 124

Amnesty International 120, 123, 147, 158, 186, 187, 189, 218, 2623, 266, 283, 550

Amoco 217

Amorin, Jos 313

Andy Capp 392

Antrim, HMS 336

Anyawu, Chris 15

APEC see Asia Pacific Economic Conferences

Aquino, Cory 208

Argentina 27

see also Falklands War

Aris, Michael 173, 203, 208, 209, 210, 212, 218

Freedom from Fear (introduction) 2001

Aristide, Father 66

arms industry/sales:

British 6, 7, 11519, 120, 1223, 1324, 135, 1389, 1447, 14952, 505, 5067

to Chile 1234

to Indonesia 11920, 122, 136, 137, 13944, 1478, 292

to Iraq 12530

to Malaysia 121, 122

to Oman 122

to Saudi Arabia 1302

US 78, 30, 121, 123, 1345

to Indonesia 292, 3012

to Saudi Arabia 567

see also nuclear weapons

Armstrong, William 118

ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) 177, 178, 180, 182, 213

Asia Pacific Economic Conferences (APEC) 76, 324

Asian Development Bank 62, 570, 573

Associated Press 531

Astra (corporation) 170, 1279

asylum seekers (in Britain) 36, 136

Atlantic Container Line (ACL) 3501

Aubrey, Jim 254, 277

Aubuisson, Roberto d 27

Auletta, Ken 52930

Aung San 1923, 197

Aung San Suu Kyi 14, 155, 159, 167, 1714, 175, 176, 178, 17980, 193, 199204, 21415, 216, 21820

Freedom from Fear 2001, 2045

interview with author 20412

Australia 76, 77, 22730, 506

and APEC 767

feminism 92

and First World War 24950

and Indonesia 14, 2546, 258, 2649, 270, 2723, 2789

media and press 246, 260, 273, 4704, 4812, 542, 5434, see also Murdoch, Rupert

think tanks 5412

and Vietnam War 254, 265

see also Aborigines; Evans, Gareth; Hawke Bob; Howard, John; Keating, Paul; Sydney

Australian (newspaper) 76, 270, 272, 4712, 4812, 542

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) 52, 180, 241, 2712, 450

Australian Financial Review 229

Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 223, 2323, 241

Bringing Them Home (report) 240

Aye Chan 197, 198

Ba, General Kyaw 1878

Babcock Thorn 152

Babson, Bradley 575, 577

Bacall, Lauren 509

Bacon, Wendy 273

Baghdad Observer 125

Baird, Vera 321

Baistow, Tom: Fourth Rate Estate 540

Baker, James 63

Baldwin, Stanley 491

Bali, Indonesia 168

Balkans: ethnic cleansing 40

Balls, Edward 95

banana trade, Grenada 756

Bandler, Faith 246

Banks, David 436, 464

Banks, Dr Ian 80

BAP see British-American Project for the Successor Generation

Barber, Lynn 481

Barber, Michael 901

Barclays Bank 86, 93

Bartholomew, Harry Guy (Bart) 381, 382, 383, 402

Batista, Pedro 268

Bayfield, Richard 542

Bayley, Edwin P.: Joe McCarthy and the Press 524

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) 4845, 486, 487 and BAP 497

Martin Bell on 524, 525

and China 530, 533

CIA series 499, 502

and Discovery Channel 533

journalists refused posts 4967

and Kissinger 23

and market bureaucracy 532

and Murdoch 533

Newsnight 111, 322, 5012, 505, 507, 517, 533

Panorama 456

Peoples Century series 502, 503

political correspondents 5034