John Pilger's The New Rulers of the World, a collection of four essays, with a new introduction, revisits and expands on earlier Pilger material — on Indonesia, Iraq, the u2018great game' of imperial and economic conquest, and the politics behind the treatment of the Aborigines in Australia. But this description is deceptive, because the book covers the full spectrum of human life in the issues it raises. And what cements it together is a depth of perspective which, crucially, places these subjects and countries in their politico-historical contexts, and a passionate indignation at the suffering and death caused by the … Continue reading The New Rulers of the World