- Paperback: 412 pages
- Publisher: New Pr (April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 156584520X
- ISBN-13: 978-1565845206
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.7 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,886,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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81 of 83 people found the following review helpful:
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Will change your view of the world.,
By MikeJC (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hidden Agendas (Paperback)
After reading some of John Pilgers articles on his website... I was persuaded get this book and as a result change my perception of World events. The USA and Great Britain in particular, self reputed homes of democracy and freedom have their true colours exposed by Pilger's tireless and thorough research, and documentation. If like me you haven't read Pilger or Noam Chomsky for example before, in reading this book you will in turns be aghast at the cruelty of our governments foreign policies, disgusted by the rhetoric politicians have spewed to "justify" their actions, but equally if not more importantly uplifted by true tales of the courage of many people around the world from Liverpool to East Timor who stand up for justice and human rights while governments turn their backs.I feel like I've been sleeping before reading this book and I can't encourage people enough to read this and wake up to what our governments (Labour or Conservative, Republican or Democrat) are doing on our behalf around the world.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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You always feel the human connection with Pilger,
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This review is from: Hidden Agendas (Paperback)
This is an excellent collection of Pilger pieces. The topics covered now read like an alternative history of the 1990s rather than current events, but this book is well worth reading because of the background that it gives you on places and people still key to what is unfolding now. Pilger always writes in an accessible style, but his unique talent is giving journalistic detail a human face.
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"Buckle up Dorothy, cause Kansas is about to go ByeBye",
By gudenkwo@hotmail.com (London.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hidden Agendas (Paperback)
What more can be said about a writer like John Pilger or a book like Hidden Agendas? He has the nasty habit of punching through the paper thin civility that shrouds the world and its political machinations. Reading each chapter seperately works just as well as reading it from start to finish since each chapter is actually a seperate article. Oddly enough the best comparison I can come up with is the "Wake up..." message in The Matrix. That the media manipulates the truth is well known, that Governments lie is common wisdom, what Pilger exposes is the depth of these manipulations, the extent of these lies and then backs them up with cold fact. What he suggests is that a vast percentage of twentieth century history is ficticious and that a secret history runs parallel to it. From the myth that Labour and Tories represent different agendas, to the secret arms caches run by western Governments to some of the most oppresive regimes in the world. Since reading this book I have found it hard to view the world in the same way. Read it. Buckle up. Kansa is about to go byebye.
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