Distant Voices by Pilger, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Contents About the Book About the Author Also by John Pilger Dedication Title Page Preface by Martha Gellhorn Introduction I: Invisible Britain

The man with no name Absolutely no excuse Race and pinstripes Casualty ward The miners Waiting for Armageddon

II: Distant Voices of Dissent

Organised forgetting Information is power A betrayal of purpose A code for charlatans The correct ideas

III: The Quiet Death of the Labour Party

A paler shade of blue The witchhunters Laughing nine times The coup The Italian factor

IV: Mythmakers of the Gulf War

Sins of omission Video nasties Salesman Hurd Turkey shoots New Age imperialism A bloodfest Liberal triumphalism Normality is resumed Who killed the Kurds? Another reality How the world was won over What is Parliament for?

V: War by Other Means

The new propaganda The war against democracy The silent war Bangkok lament The betrayal of Bosnia Operation Restore Hope

VI: East Timor

Born in tears Cleaning the field A land of crosses Arms for the generals

VII: Tributes

Elsie and Claude Curt Gunther Noam Chomsky Oliver Stone Farzad Bazoft John Merritt Baby Hermes

VIII: On the Road

Two Russias Terminator in bifocals The magic of Disney Have a nice war The secret valley

IX: Cambodia

Return to Year Zero Through the looking glass A Faustian pact King Sihanouk’s democracy

X: Under the Volcano

A land of broken promises Nicaragua Children of Palestine The fire next time Lions of Judah

XI: Australia

Down at Bondi Wild colonial boys In the heart of the country

Notes Index Acknowledgements Copyright