List Price: $14.95 Details

Save: $0.96 (6%)

$3.99 delivery May 22 - 25. Details

Or fastest delivery May 17 - 19. Details

Only 1 left in stock - order soon

[{"displayPrice":"$13.99","priceAmount":13.99,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"13","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"99","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"736vT8fleN7f2%2FCue%2FwGn%2FpNdp4cRw0HXC1OWe1Hu1w%2FDqBzkzCMaTl4SzK6kPZeglSLaKK6sf8wXYyg6Z9Nd%2FbffwSpYNoWKQ2mlbHcmc0eYFtazvLQSB3AX%2F%2FuTksV2zljApBb78cv7SewSUDrAVVlcz%2Fb6SfGtQXYNwssgr1DysBNO3URfhuEDrTw5ASW","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW"},{"displayPrice":"$1.50","priceAmount":1.50,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"1","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"50","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"736vT8fleN7f2%2FCue%2FwGn%2FpNdp4cRw0Hepnp2h3oQEvgZIEIjaprtpkqeOG3iG8ywIvjn0AwGInEndt1zDNZBOMx0LLhwvrY0Eba7zGRMZxWOIgdwndgbWe29jQGcI8nJiPrDMDhTI4zQpb6VFqYLoLT8yewB%2F9Gt0%2FTemHtJni9P2SvOauNqQG2jL3pMmJv","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED"}]

$$13.99 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Payment

Secure transaction

Ships from

Noble_Readers

Sold by

Noble_Readers

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

Details

Payment

Secure transaction

We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more

Ships from

Noble_Readers

Sold by

Noble_Readers

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt. You may receive a partial or no refund on used, damaged or materially different returns.

Read full return policy

$3.98 delivery Monday, May 22. Details

Select delivery location

Used: Good | Details

Sold by glenthebookseller

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Other Sellers on Amazon

Added

Not added

$20.97
& FREE Shipping

Sold by: GrandEagleRetail

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See all 3 images

Follow the Author

John Pilger

The New Rulers of the World Paperback – April 1, 2003

by John Pilger (Author)

4.6 327 ratings

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$9.99

—

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$13.73

$9.73

$1.18

Paperback

"Please retry"

$15.95

$11.87

$3.99

Paperback, April 17, 2003

$13.99

$6.79

$1.25

Kindle
$9.99 Read with Our Free App
Hardcover
$13.73

38 Used from $1.18 6 New from $9.73 1 Collectible from $37.09
Paperback
$13.99

57 Used from $1.25 6 New from $6.79 1 Collectible from $35.56

Purchase options and add-ons

John Pilger is one of the world’s renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suharto’s bloody seizure of power in the 1960s was part of a western design to impose a ‘global economy’ on Asia. A million Indonesians dies as the price for being the World Bank’s ‘model pupil’. In a shocking chapter on Iraq, he allows us to understand the true nature of the West’s war against the people of that country. And he dissects, piece by piece, the propaganda of the ‘war on terror’ to expose its Orwellian truth. Finally, he looks behind the picture postcard of his homeland, Australia, to illuminate an enduring legacy of imperialism, the subjugation of the First Australians.

Print length

192 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Verso
Publication date

April 1, 2003
Dimensions

5.3 x 0.7 x 7.45 inches
ISBN-10

185984412X
ISBN-13

978-1859844120
See all details

Highest rated | Lowest Pricein this set of productsThis item:
John Pilger
327
Paperback
$13.99
Most purchasedin this set of products
John Pilger
107
Paperback
$29.99
John Pilger
124
Hardcover
13 offers from $4.26
140
Paperback
$38.66

Editorial Reviews

Review

“John Pilger’s work has been a beacon of light in often dark times. The realities he has brought to light have been a revelation, over and over again, and his courage and insight a constant inspiration.”—Noam Chomsky

“What makes John Pilger a truly great journalist is his conscience and bravery.”—Martha Gellhorn

About the Author

John Pilger is one of the world’s most renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. His other books include Heroes, Distant Voices and Hidden Agendas.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verso; Updated edition (April 1, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 185984412X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1859844120
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.7 x 7.45 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,601,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,026 in Globalization & Politics
- #5,664 in Political Commentary & Opinion
- #16,033 in History & Theory of Politics

Customer Reviews:
4.6 327 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

John Pilger

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more

Customer reviews

4.6 out of 5

327 global ratings

5 star		72%
4 star		19%
3 star		6%
2 star		2%
1 star		2%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Karun Mukherji

An explosive book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 13, 2005

Verified Purchase

Author is a renowned journalist-Aussie by birth-who resides in London.Mr Pilger owing to his anti establishment views has incurred wrath,displeasure of ruling circles of UK US including his native country.

Author condemns American policies in Afghanistan,Iraq which he terms nothing but genocide.War on Iraq was motivated American greed to control that country fabulous oil weath.Similiarly author says Anglo-American attack on Afghanistan was prompted by desire to establish a foothold in resource-rich Central Asia.War on terrorism along with attempts to nab Al-qaeda supremo Osama Bin Laden has served to veil the above agenda.

Pilger exposes American hypocrisy on so-called 'War on Terror'.In the aftermath of Sep 2001 bombings efforts to bring Osama to justice without resorting to violence was sabotaged .Taliban was willing to extradite Osama to Pak city Peshawar to face trial.But President Musharraf yeilding to Washington's pressure vetoed this proposal.

Further author challenges popular view that Washington's support to Islamic fundamentalist groups was in response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.USA sought to destabilise Barbarak Karmal's PDPA regime because its revolutionary policies became a role model for other coutries to follow.Soviet decision to intervene in Afghanistan stemmed from Moscow's aim of preventing religious fundamentalism unleashed at its backyard.

Author is equally critical of his native country because of brutal ,inhumane treatment towards indigenous aboriginal peoples.Australia 's human rights trackrecord is vey deplorable;Canberra's glamorous and charming exterior has managed to mask this.

To conclude the book offers the readers to gain a different perspective of 'War on Terror'

10 people found this helpful

Helpful

Tim Johnson

Read it and weep.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 11, 2003

Verified Purchase

John Pilger has stared into the abyss of the post World War II world and seen lies, obfuscations and Red Herrings thrown out to an extraordinarily gullible world public. You ask, "Who would do such a monstrous thing"? And surprise, surprise the name that continually surfaces is good ol', kind Uncle Sam-Uncle Sam in Indonesia, Somalia, Middle East, Central America, Chile, Caribbean, Afghanistan and now Iraq.
Pilger looks at all these places and more and the poor reader is muddied as they get pulled into a story that many of us know but probably have not stitched together as tightly as Pilger gives us. "The New Rulers of the World" is a small book of only 207 pages in the hardback version and those are small pages so the reading will not take long-the digestion, however, will take considerably longer.
As someone who has lived outside the States for some thirty years I know the difficulty of coming to grips with the monstrous nature of the country that I was born in and lived in for my early, formidable years but I also know the truth of what Pilger, himself an Australian, sees in this botched civilization that is now the world's only superpower.
The picture the reader is left with after reading this book is one of a people in denial-denial that the America of their childhood, the America of Iwo Jima, Normandy, Ellis Island, Cherry Trees and myriads of other photo ops and sound bites could be anything but loved and honoured by the world's tied, poor and hungary. Those that know the fiction just keep pumpping out the lies; keeping those people wrapped in their ignorance and thereby keeping the reigns of control firmly in their hands.
...

13 people found this helpful

Helpful

David Seaman

Read this book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2017

Verified Purchase

This is truth. Material like this would NEVER be taught in American or British schools. John Pilger's research surpasses all others because his primary source was to BE there.

Others have called this mandatory. I prefer to call it compulsory as every reader will be unable to put it down by the time one has reached page three.

History is usually written by the winners of war and the wealthy countries. The Media has become so commercially pressured and governments so controlled by the desire for money and power that the Western Hemisphere has changed very little since the 15th Century. When you read what Britain, the US, and Australia has done just to Indonesia, a country few of us were told about in school, you will be astounded and insensed.

Read this book.

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

Stephen Zielinski

Pilger's First-Rate Journalism

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 20, 2003

Verified Purchase

'The New Rulers of the World' contains much outstanding journalism by John Pilger. His prose is remarkably clear and precise, his descriptions vivid and well drawn. I can easily recommend his book to anyone opposed to the unfortunate fate of the defeated peoples of the world, namely, the men and women lacking an advantageous place in the 'western imperial order.' Pilger achieves the elusive goal of letting his subjects shine through his narrative. He does this by tempering his descriptions of those victimized by the holders of wealth and power with the personal dignity and humanity of those very same people. For North Americans especially, 'The New Rulers of the World' provides salutary correctives to the obfuscations offered by their 'value-neutral' journalists.
The book's 2002 publication was a timely one as well, for war against Iraq is now certain and for reasons which should be known to those who have read Pilger's book.

24 people found this helpful

Helpful

Kindle Customer

Excellent read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2021

Verified Purchase

A very good and well written account of US imperialism.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 29, 2018

Verified Purchase

Similar to his other writings. He is trying to save the world.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Joe

Great but inconclusive

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2008

Verified Purchase

First off the positives: entertaining, thoroughly researched by a passionate author, and a great exposition of topics overlooked by Western media.

The bad, if that's what you want to call it: inconclusive final chapter that draws few corollaries to earlier chapters.

Overall highly recommended for anyone looking for enlightenment.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

TAGrace

Reading this should be mandatory. Impact and globalization matter ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 27, 2017

Verified Purchase

Reading this should be mandatory. Impact and globalization matter. Only a few can present this information in such a clear, encompassing way. Pilger is an academic and journalistic hero and icon.

5 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

May Joanne MacDonald

The real truth is horrible.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 8, 2017

Verified Purchase

This book is a must read for anyone who has a conscience or cares about what is really going on in this world. The message is do not believe what the BBC or American news tell you as they have their own agenda and propaganda to peddle as do most of the newspapers. If the average person on the street had a clue about what is really going on they would be horrified.
John Pilger is a first rate journalist who you can rely on to tell the truth as it is because he checks the facts before reporting it mostly on first hand experience. Waken up everyone and read this book!

22 people found this helpful

Spider Woman

The truth.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 20, 2010

Verified Purchase

Illusions can die hard. Mine were gone by the time I'd read this book - in part thanks to the documentaries Pilger did on these same issues. I'd expected the book to be dry, that the documentaries would be a hard act to follow. I was very wrong. Between the book and the documentaries, I'd recommend the book - though either is absolutely brilliant.

Others have covered the subject matter quite well, so there's no point in my rehashing it. The main thing to know is that what Pilger has uncovered is shocking and horrifying. Be prepared to acknowledge that your view of the world was far from reality - even if you'd thought you were a progressive and aware of what first world nations have done and are doing.

This is THE book to tell people to read if they want to believe that their country (US, UK, any other first-world nation) is a good guy, that their actions are based on doing what's right for people around the world.

Just tell them to read this book, and tell 'em that they have no idea what they're saying until they have. That goes for conservatives and liberals. If the liberals and progressives can still say that supporting their party (Democrat, Labour, SNP, Liberal Democrat) makes sense, then you know they haven't actually read it.

54 people found this helpful

Eric le rouge

Simple and hard truths but perhaps too Manichean

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 10, 2014

Verified Purchase

A very good book from Pilger but which however start to date a bit.
This could be obviously considered extreme leftism but could also be simply read in the shoes of a simple human citizen of the world.
The problem with these books is that they cherry pick some of the worse examples. By choosing the worse examples, one can get really dark picture of our societies. But I see Pilger point to take the worst examples to create a shock effect which would have a higher impact on us readers. I consequently find his book too Manichean, too simplified between the bad and the good guys. It seems you have no one between which is in fact the reality.
One issue I have with his style is that he quotes many people and sometimes he is telling the story of a guy who told him a story, etc.. and you end up getting lost. Because he quotes a lot, you end up loosing track of who is the good guy and who is the bad one.
I liked the author’s idea of a victim, an aggressor and a bystander. This book made me think a bit on us westerners impact on the third world. By simply buying an Ipad, you may endanger the health of a worker thousand of kilometres away? Our
How do these things happen? Our societies have developed in such a way and media hypocrisy that our governments are doing horrible things for the benefit of an entire nation. The citizen is left with a feeling of impuissance and most will just hide and claim they are only bystanders and not guilty.

5 people found this helpful

Elise

Excellent, everyone needs to read it.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 22, 2017

Verified Purchase

John Pilger is an excellent writer and a very brave man. This book opened my eyes to what actually happens in the way the world is run and how decisions are made. In that respect it is alarming and depressing but it is something everyone should know and something every government doesn't want you to know.

7 people found this helpful

Art

An Eye-Opening Book from a First-Rate Journalist - A MUST READ

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 1, 2016

Verified Purchase

Pilger is a truly professional journalist who has is to be admired for his objectivity and courage. This book opens one's eye to the rather distorted information that the media produces which keeps us blinkered and unaware of the corporate greed, government complicity and misinformation. After reading his book I now question every significant event in the media as to whether it bears scrutiny. Wake up and smell the New World Order...

5 people found this helpful

See all reviews

Amazon Music Stream millions of songs	Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers	6pm Score deals on fashion brands	AbeBooks Books, art & collectibles	ACX Audiobook Publishing Made Easy	Sell on Amazon Start a Selling Account

Amazon Business Everything For Your Business	Amazon Fresh Groceries & More Right To Your Door	AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally	Home Services Experienced Pros Happiness Guarantee	Amazon Ignite Sell your original Digital Educational Resources	Amazon Web Services Scalable Cloud Computing Services

Audible Listen to Books & Original Audio Performances	Book Depository Books With Free Delivery Worldwide	Box Office Mojo Find Movie Box Office Data	ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics	DPReview Digital Photography	Fabric Sewing, Quilting & Knitting

Goodreads Book reviews & recommendations	IMDb Movies, TV & Celebrities	IMDbPro Get Info Entertainment Professionals Need	Kindle Direct Publishing Indie Digital & Print Publishing Made Easy	Amazon Photos Unlimited Photo Storage Free With Prime	Prime Video Direct Video Distribution Made Easy

Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands	Amazon Warehouse Great Deals on Quality Used Products	Whole Foods Market America’s Healthiest Grocery Store	Woot! Deals and Shenanigans	Zappos Shoes & Clothing	Ring Smart Home Security Systems

eero WiFi Stream 4K Video in Every Room	Blink Smart Security for Every Home	Neighbors App Real-Time Crime & Safety Alerts	Amazon Subscription Boxes Top subscription boxes – right to your door	PillPack Pharmacy Simplified	Amazon Renewed Like-new products you can trust

Buy new: $13.99$13.99 $3.99 delivery: May 22 - 25 Ships from: Noble_Readers Sold by: Noble_Readers

Buy used: $1.50

Other Sellers on Amazon

Follow the Author

The New Rulers of the World Paperback – April 1, 2003

Purchase options and add-ons

What do customers buy after viewing this item?

Editorial Reviews

Review

About the Author

Product details

Videos

About the author

John Pilger

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries

Buy new:

$13.99

$3.99 delivery: May 22 - 25

Ships from: Noble_Readers

Sold by: Noble_Readers

Buy used:

$1.50