Hidden Agendas

Publisher:  Vintage, United Kingdom
Year Published:  1998
Pages:  687pp   ISBN:  978-0-099-74151-0
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX8389

Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

I The New Cold War
The Terrorists
Unpeople 1
the Crusaders
Unpeople 2

II Flying the Flag
Arming the World

III Inside Burma
The Golden Land
We Shall Have Our Time

IV Australia
Secret Waters
Anzac Day

V We Resist to Win
Xanana
Jose Ramos-Horta
Bishop Belo
Jo, Andrea, Lotta and Angie
The Invisible Revolution
The Dockers

VI On the Famine Road
The Roots of War

VII The Rise and Fall of Popular Journalism
Forward with the People
Breaking the Mirror

VIII The Media Age
A Cultural Chernobyl
Guardians of the Faith
The Last Voice

IX Return to Vietnam
Still a Noble Cause
The Final Battle
China Beach

X Epilogue
The View from Dimbaza

Notes

Index

Subject Headings

• Aboriginal People
• Arms Exports
• Arms Trade
• Australia
• British History
• Broadcasting
• Burma
• Cambodia
• China
• East Timor
• Falkland Islands
• Foreign Policy
• Human Rights Abuses/International
• Indigenous Peoples
• Indonesia
• International Affairs/Relations
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Journalism
• Kurds
• Massacres
• Media Analysis & Criticism
• Media Bias
• Media Ownership
• Media Ownership/Concentration of
• Mineworkers (Miners)
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• Nuclear Weapons
• South Africa
• Television
• Television/Analysis of Content
• U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• U.S. Imperialism
• War Crimes
• World Bank