Product Description

The model for this volume is the enormously successful vintage original "Distant Voices" (93, 000 copies sold to date). It will gather together essays on a range of subjects including Burma, Fleet Street, East Timor, Vietnam today, the media and UK politics. "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 brandished and used in the struggle against evil and injustice" - "Guardian".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20236 in Books
• Published on: 1998-03-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 624 pages

Customer Reviews

Will change your view of the world.
After reading some of John Pilgers articles on his website... I was persuaded get this book and as a result change my perception of World events. The USA and Great Britain in particular, self reputed homes of democracy and freedom have their true colours exposed by Pilger's tireless and thorough research, and documentation. If like me you haven't read Pilger or Noam Chomsky for example before, in reading this book you will in turns be aghast at the cruelty of our governments foreign policies, disgusted by the rhetoric politicians have spewed to "justify" their actions, but equally if not more importantly uplifted by true tales of the courage of many people around the world from Liverpool to East Timor who stand up for justice and human rights while governments turn their backs.

I feel like I've been sleeping before reading this book and I can't encourage people enough to read this and wake up to what our governments (Labour or Conservative, Republican or Democrat) are doing on our behalf around the world.

"Buckle up Dorothy, cause Kansas is about to go ByeBye"
What more can be said about a writer like John Pilger or a book like Hidden Agendas? He has the nasty habit of punching through the paper thin civility that shrouds the world and its political machinations. Reading each chapter seperately works just as well as reading it from start to finish since each chapter is actually a seperate article. Oddly enough the best comparison I can come up with is the "Wake up..." message in The Matrix. That the media manipulates the truth is well known, that Governments lie is common wisdom, what Pilger exposes is the depth of these manipulations, the extent of these lies and then backs them up with cold fact. What he suggests is that a vast percentage of twentieth century history is ficticious and that a secret history runs parallel to it. From the myth that Labour and Tories represent different agendas, to the secret arms caches run by western Governments to some of the most oppresive regimes in the world. Since reading this book I have found it hard to view the world in the same way. Read it. Buckle up. Kansa is about to go byebye.

human rights under attack
After reading John Pilgers book i immediately joined amnesty international. This book shows how modern democracies are supporting brutal regimes in order to sell arms (US, UK) while at the same time cutting down social security at home. Everbody should read this book. It will make you angry. Use this anger in order to support human rights. John Pilger deserves the Nobel-Prize for Peace!