(from my e-mail)
June 7, 2006
GUEST MEDIA ALERT: FREEDOM NEXT TIME – AN EXTRACT FROM JOHN PILGER’S NEW BOOK
John Pilger’s new book, Freedom Next Time (Bantam Press, 2006; http://www.johnpilger.com/) has just been published. Containing chapters on Diego Garcia, Palestine, India, South Africa and Afghanistan, it is a devastating indictment of brutal state-corporate power, and a heartening account of how people around the world are challenging that power.
In a recent review of Freedom Next Time, Mark Curtis wrote: “The array of interviews with the voiceless and abused provides an indispensable corrective to the litany of disinformation we are fed by the media.” (http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1788937,00.html)
The section on Palestine – The Last Taboo – is one of the most powerful, compassionate and courageous we have seen on the issue anywhere. It is a 100-page antidote to what former BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Llewellyn has called “the tyranny of spurious equivalence” in media coverage. This really is must-read journalism.
We asked John Pilger if we might publish the moving extract below as a guest media alert and he has very kindly agreed. We recommend it and the book to our readers unreservedly.
Best wishes
The Editors