{"product_id":"freedom-next-time-resisting-the-empire-9781568583266","title":"Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire","description":"World-renowned journalist John Pilger looks at five nations (Palestine, Diego Garcia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and South Africa) that have undergone long and painful struggles for freedom, yet are still waiting for its realization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Pilger\u003c\/b\u003e is a world-renowned journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He regards eye-witness as the essence of good journalism. He has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war reporter, beginning with the Vietnam war in 1967. He is an impassioned critic of foreign military and economic adventures by Western governments. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"It is too easy,\" he says, \"for Western journalists to see humanity in terms of its usefulness to 'our' interests and to follow government agendas that ordain good and bad tyrants, worthy and unworthy victims and present 'our' policies as always benign when the opposite is usually true. It's the journalist's job, first of all, to look in the mirror of his own society.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He believes a journalist also ought to be a guardian of the public memory and often quotes Milan Kundera: \"The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His website is: www.johnpilger.com\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bold Type Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527863341330,"sku":"9781568583266","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2add0966-5ef4-4020-af7d-2815cb57a1a5.jpg?v=1731315789","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/freedom-next-time-resisting-the-empire-9781568583266","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}