John Pilger
Birth date: October 09, 1939
John Pilger's Books
What you need to know about humans is that they are dicks. And if you give them any power their dickness prevails over everything else. John Pilger wrote this book in 2006. It’s about different governments (US, UK, South African, Israeli) being total, complete assholes. If you look up each and every...
Contents:AcknowledgementsNotes on the TextIntroduction by John PilgerMartha Gellhorn - Dachau (1945)Wilfred Burchett - The Atomic Plague (1945)Edward R. Murrow - The Menace of McCarthyism (1947-54)Jessica Mitford - The American Way of Death (1963)James Cameron - Through the Looking-Glass (1966)Seymo...
Trained as a historian, I am skeptical about the evidence of a "Golden Age" when the Fourth Estate "spoke truth to power" and made the lives of our leaders uncomfortable. There's always been enormous pressure to maintain the status quo but I'll admit that we're at a particularly low nadir when the m...