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With pramoedya ananta toer, george monbiot, dita sari. John pilger is one of the worlds preeminent investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. John pilger sets each piece of reporting in its context and introduces the collection with a passionate essay arguing that the kind of journalism he celebrates here is being subverted by the very forces that ought to be its enemy. Read the new rulers of the world by john pilger available from rakuten kobo. Globalization, world politics, international relations, moral and ethical aspects, power social sciences. The new rulers of the world 2001 by john pilger provides a good example of a dependency theory analysis of the consequences of neoliberal globalisation, focusing on indonesia as a case study.
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