The New Rulers of the World

John Pilger

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781784782146
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suharto's bloody seizure of power in the 1960s was part of a western design to impose a 'global economy' on Asia. A million Indonesians died as the price for being the World Bank's 'model pupil'. In a shocking chapter on Iraq, he delineates the true nature of the West's war against the people of that country. And he dissects, piece by piece, the propaganda of the 'war on terror' to expose its Orwellian truth. Finally, he looks behind the picture-postcard image of his homeland, Australia, to illuminate an enduring legacy of imperialism: the subjugation of the First Australians.

INDEX

Aborigines, Australian 12–13, 214

activists 12–13, 193, 195, 207, 208–10

genocide 180, 186, 195–6, 198–203

lack of health care 168–9, 170, 173–4

land claims 176–9, 182–4, 208–9

life-expectancy 12, 172–3, 174, 207

prison population 171, 174, 195, 203–7, 210

and racial discrimination 12–13, 175, 214–15

reparations owed to stockmen 181–2

reserves 13, 171, 195

school textbook references 180–1, 187

sportsmen and women 188–92, 193–4, 196–7, 204, 213

the stolen generation 184–6, 201–2

suicides 12, 170–1, 172, 204, 215

and Sydney Olympic Games 166–7, 168, 174, 175, 195, 196, 197, 206–7

war memorials 200–2

Aborigines Protection Board 185

Abu Hunud, Mahmud 146

Aburish, Said 68, 82

Adidas 18

Afghanistan:

al-Qa’ida training camps 140, 156

American complicity (1980s) 155–7

Anglo-American bombing 5–7, 102, 104–5, 107, 108–9, 113, 115, 141, 153

Australian soldiers in 211

life expectancy 122

mujaheddin 5, 109, 154, 155, 156, 157

Northern Alliance 105, 107

and oil industry 111–13

People’s Democratic Party (PDPA) 153–7

post-Taliban regime 107–8

Soviet invasion 154–5, 156

Taliban 105, 106–9, 111–12, 113, 116, 133, 153, 154, 156, 157

treatment of women 6, 107, 153, 154

Age, Melbourne 213

Agence France Presse 158

Aguas del Tunari 13

Ahtisaari, Martti 58

Aidid, Hussein 128

Aidid, General Mohammed Farah 128

Al-Ali, Dr Jawad 49

Albanians, Kosovar 147, 148, 150

Albright, Madeleine 48, 63–4, 85–6, 89, 117, 147

Alcoa 41

Alford, Katrina 184

Alice Sprin...