JOHN PILGER

Throughout his distinguished career as a journalist and film-maker, John Pilger has looked behind the official versions of events to report the real stories of our time.The centrepiece of this new, expanded edition of his bestselling Distant Voices is Pilgers reporting from East Timor, which he entered secretly in 1993 and where a third of the population has died as a result of Indonesias genocidal policies. This edition also contains more new material as well as all the original essays - from the myth-making of the Gulf War to the surreal pleasures of Disneyland. Breaking through the consensual silence, Pilger pays tribute to those dissenting voices we are seldom permitted to hear.

Tell Me No Lies is a celebration of the very best investigative journalism, and includes writing by some of the greatest practitioners of the craft: Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre; Paul Foot on the Lockerbie cover-up; Wilfred Burchett, the first Westerner to enter Hiroshima following the atomic bombing; Israeli journalist Amira Hass, reporting from the Gaza Strip in the 1990s; Gunter Wallraff, the great German undercover reporter; Jessica Mitford on The American Way of Death; Martha Gelhorn on the liberation of the death camp at Dachau. The book - a selection of articles, broadcasts and books extracts that revealed important and disturbing truths - ranges from across many of the critical events, scandals and struggles of the past fifty years. Along the way it bears witness to epic injustices committed against the peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Palestine. John Pilger sets each piece of reporting in its context and introduces the collection with a passionate essay arguing that the kind of journalism he celebrates here is being subverted by the very forces that ought to be its enemy. Taken as a whole, the book tells an extraordinary secret history of the modern era. It is also a call to arms to journalists everywhere - before it is too late.

John Pilger is one of the worlds pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky been a beacon of light in often dark times. In Freedom Next Time he looks at five countries, in each of which a long struggle for freedom has taken place; in each the people, having shed blood and dreams, are still waiting. In Afghanistan, Iraq and South Africa there has been the promise of hope, and even an official freedom, but the reality of these divided societies is that they are still waiting for real freedom. In Palestine, the cycle of violence continues with no resolution in sight. And the island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, is a microcosm of the ruthlessness of great powers. The island was sold by the British to the American military in the 1960s. The indigenous population, descended from slaves, were forcibly removed to the slums of Port Louis in Mauritius. They have continued to fight for the return of their homeland ever since - three years ago the High Court granted them the right of return, but this has subsequently been blocked. The island remains the USs third biggest military base; a base from which they are able to launch attacks against the Middle East.Once again John Pilger gives a voice to the people living through these momentous times and, in gripping detail, shows us the lives behind the headlines.

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. His reporting of these events has always been distinguished by his tenaciously researched facts - especially facts that governments and powerful interests would prefer to keep secret - and by his unerring and always compassionate pursuit of the truth.

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.

Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high political drama.

En nuestra época de grandes grupos mediáticos y de sustitución de la información por el espectáculo, la labor del informador veraz e independiente adquiere una importancia capital para despertar conciencias y movilizar voluntades. Para ilustrarlo, John Pilger ha compilado una antologia que reune lo mejor que ha dado de si el periodismo desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una excelente recopilacion de articulos de Robert Fisk, Anna Politkovskaya, Martha Gellhorn, Gunter Wallraff...que constituyen un homenaje a la informacion fidedigna y responsable, basada en la observacion y en los principios.

Phillip KnightleyA faascinating story of heroism and collusion, censorship and suppression, myth-making and propaganda. Now brought up to date with new material on war in Afghanistan. The author is A

En este libro,John Pilger hace un alegato contra la globalización de la economía,la comunicación y la pobreza en un mundo donde el ochenta por ciento de la riqueza está en manos de un grupo minoritario.Sin duda,el mismo grupo que controla los medios de comunicacion.Pilger habla del millon de indonesios que tuvieron que morir para que el pais llegara a ser "pupilo modelo " del Banco Mundial,de las consecuencias de una decada de embargo occidental a Irak,de la tirania ejercida sobre la poblacion aborigen de Australia,del nefasto objetivo del "nuevo orden mundial ",de la propaganda que lo justifica y le da alas,del peligroso poder globalizador de estos medios y de la importancia de romper esa barrera de desinformacion.