The New Rulers of the World - John Pilger

This is the first quality swap I managed to obtain from the website www.readitswapit.co.uk. I was going to do an extensive review of this book but have decided to keep it short as two other members have already written excellent crowned reviews about the book. Australian John Pilger is one of the most outstanding investigative journalists in the world today. He remains one of the few who is not afraid to speak out and ask the most awkward questions of our political leaders. The New Rulers of the World deals with some of Pilger's long abiding themes, in particular the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism, referred to by many as globalisation or the ...  Read the complete review

John Pilger's book is, essentially, a look at the modern face of imperialism, concentrating on instances that constitute or border on genocide and with a particular attention paid to omission and misinformation of the media and the academia. He chooses only some instances, but those which were chosen illuminate particularly well how the "imperialist imperatives of the American Century have undermined the greatest Western achievement, that of secular, redistributive politics". Whatever you think of the author's idea of the greatest achievement of the Western culture (I would personally agree with him at least partially), what he chose to write about makes for a ...  Read the complete review

John Pilger is an unreconstructed leftie. He is probably one of the few people left who use the word "comrade" without a trace of irony. Journalist, writer and maker of TV documentaries, Pilger has won just about every award going, including an Emmy. He is Australian, but bases himself in London. His abiding theme is of that of modern imperialism, known by some as the global economy. In this book, The New Rulers of the World, Pilger continues this theme and updates it. There is little new material here. The book is, essentially, a bringing-up-to-speed refining of his previous ...  Read the complete review