Book description
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 Blair's 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
journalism's highest award, that of Journalist of the Year, for his work
all over the world, notably in Cambodia and Vietnam. He has been
International Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations
Associated Peace Prize and Gold Medal. For his broadcasting, he has won
France's Reporter Sans Frontières, an American television Academy
Award, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British
Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2003, he received the Sophie
Prize for 'thirty years of exposing deception and improving human
rights'.
