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by John Pilger


  declining membership of 107, 109

  and education 108

  election campaign (1992) 97–8

  and the Gulf War 110, 127, 145, 189

  and the National Health Service 41, 98, 108, 119

  the Press and 37, 76, 78–9, 81–2, 99, 120

  and racism 37, 108

  and Trident 59, 60, 110, 120

  and unemployment 29, 110–11

  witchhunting in 102–6, 107, 109–10

  Labour Party Conference (1993) 119–20

  Lambeth, London: suspension of Labour councillors 103

  Lamez, Monsieur 365

  Lamont, Norman 209

  Lane, Max 321, 323

  Lang, Jack 536

  Laos, American bombing of 91, 132, 352

  Lardner, George 348

  Large, Don 366, 367

  Laurie, Jim 442–3

  Lawrence, Roger 486

  Laws, John, QC 446–7

  Lebanon 148, 179–80

  Lee Kuan Yew 413

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 371, 374, 378

  Leningrad see St Petersburg

  Lennon, John 334

  Lennon, Peter 183

  Lennox-Boyd, Mark 445

  Leon, Ramiro de 200

  Leros Island, Greece: psychiatric colony 358–9

  Levi, Primo 278, 494

  Lewis, Anthony 512

  Lewis, Arthur 33–4

  Leyte, island of: typhoons 69, 497

  Li Peng 115, 193

  libel laws, British 10, 447–8

  Liberia, effect of Gulf War on 173

  Libya:

  American/British campaign against 186–8, 225

  media coverage of 73

  Liechty, C. Philip 235, 297–9

  Life magazine 334, 511

  Lilley, Peter 117

  Lingiari, Vincent 543

  Lippmann, Walter 88

  Public Opinion 63–4

  Live Aid 208

  Lloyd George, David 125

  Loach, Ken: Questions of Leadership 86

  Lobato, Nicolau 242

  Locke, John 14

  Lockerbie bombing, the 186–7, 188

  Lon Nol, General 429, 485

  London:

  abolition of GLC 115

  homelessness in 23–6

  hospitals 119, 361; see also Hammersmith Hospital; King’s College Hospital

  London Docklands Development Corporation 115

  London Housing Unit 26

  Long Visalo 578 n104

  Look magazine 511

  Lopez, Costa, Bishop of Dili 253

  Los Angeles Times 347

  Louis, Joe 334

  Louvish, Simon 13

  Lowery, Alan 505

  Lumby, Catherine 473

  Maastricht Treaty 216

  Mabo, Eddie 546

  ‘Mabo judgment’, the 546, 547

  Macau 319

  McCarten, Matt 112

  McCarthy, Francis 328

  McCarthy, Senator Joseph 102

  McCarthy, Mary (nee Palmer) 329, 330

  McCarthy, Terry 453–4

  McCarthyism 65, 66, 109

  McCartney, James 128

  McClelland, Judge James 532–3, 539

  McClelland Royal Commission of Enquiry 532, 533

  McCloskey Coal Information Services 53

  McConaghy, Brian 472n

  McCrum, Robert 488

  McDonald’s, Moscow 377, 379, 380

  Macedonians, the 216

  McGrath, Rae 467, 470–1

  Mackie, Professor J. A. C. 245

  McMahon, Will 321

  Madrid: Middle East Peace Conference (1991) 507, 508

  Mafia, the: ties with the CIA 351

  Maguires, the 100

  Mailer, Norman 17

  The Armies of the Night 341

  Maitland, Geordie 55

  Major, John:

  and arms sales to Iraq 118, 189

  and China 193, 194

  a disciple of Thatcher 9–10, 37–8, 114

  and East Timor 319–20

  economic hardship caused by 117

  and Germany’s recognition of Croatia 216

  and the Gulf War 128, 133, 134, 165, 338

  and Hong Kong 193, 194

  and the NHS 41, 45

  racist policies of 38

  supports US campaigns against Iraq and Libya 186–7

  supports Yeltsin’s ‘democracy’ 113, 197

  Makinson, Arnie 54

  Malaysia:

  British training camps in 416–17, 425

  and Cambodia 412, 413, 474

  see also Singapore

  Mali 364

  Malik, Adam 242, 243, 247, 252, 259 259

  Manchester:

  death rate in 28

  suspension of Labour councillors 103

  Manchester Guardian 125, 198

  Manley, Michael 200, 353

  manufacturing, British 29

  Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot and 402, 441

  Maralinga, Australia 532

  Marchetti, Victor 350

  Marcos, Ferdinand, President of the Philippines 204, 205, 209, 497, 498, 501

  Marcos, Imelda 498, 500, 501

  Marcovic, Ante 217

  ‘Mário’ (Timorese) 290–1

  Marketing Week 79

  Marqusee, Mike see Heffernan, Richard

  Marr, Mel 448

  Martin, Ray 262

  Mason, Harry 48, 50

  Mason, Linda 410

  mass movements, power of 111, 116, 160

  Matrix Churchill affair 10, 118

  Maxwell, Robert:

  and the Daily Mirror 76, 77, 78–9, 80, 81, 82

  and Haines 78, 435

  exploitation of libel laws 10

  and the Labour Party 29

  media coverage of his death 69, 71

  and a plastic turd 358

  and Scargill 51, 77

  media, the:

  and public opinion 13, 115–16

  see Press, the; television

  Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) 86

  Medical Educational Trust:

  Continuing Health Cost of the Gulf War 177

  Mellor, David 83, 85, 355

  Men of Timor (film) 237

  Menzies, Sir Robert 532–3, 534, 537

  Merritt, John 358–62

  Merritt, Lindsay 360

  Middle East International 179

  Midlothian Mirror 349

  MI5 9–10

  and Australia 533

  and Bazoft 355

  Miles, Ed 479, 480, 481

  Militant 102, 103, 105, 106, 109

  Milius, John 89–90

  Milosevic, Slobadan 216

  Mines Advisory Group 467, 470, 580 n169

  mining industry, British see coal industry, British

  Ministry of Defence:

  and Death on the Rock 433, 444, 445, 446, 447, 450

  and the Gulf War 172

  and Trident 58–9

  Miracle Nun of Teverina 395

  MI6: and Australia 533

  Cambodian operations 423, 444, 446

  Mitchell, Denis 18, 87

  Mitchell, Ebenezer 329

  Mitterrand, Francois, President 142

  MMU see Media Monitoring Unit

  Mobutu, Joseph-Desiré 425

  Mochter 579 n113

  Modai, Yitzhak 180

  Moi, Daniel Arap 223

  Mok, General (‘Ta Mok’) 454, 455

  Monde, Le 258

  Monks, John 111

  Montreal Sabotage Convention 188

  Morgan, General Mohammed Siad Hersi 223

  Morgan Stanley and Co. 200

  MORI polls 31–2

  Morning Star 159, 198

  Morrison, Bill 288–9

  Morton, Brian 340

  Moscow: (1977) 371–3; (1990) 376–80

  Moscow News 377–8

  Moses, Ken 54–5

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick 256–7

  Mozambique 241

  an
d the Gulf War 173

  MPLA 226

  Mpondah, Dingaan 72, 73

  Mubarak, President, of Egypt 179

  Mulhall, Michael 40

  Muller, Robert O. (‘Bobby’) 146, 147, 148, 154, 479–80, 481

  Mullin, Chris, MP 420, 425, 444, 450

  Munro, David:

  films with the author 6, 86, 262–3, 271–4, 282, 283–6, 289, 292, 403, 407, 414, 415, 416, 421, 422, 423, 443, 444, 448, 449, 475

  writes to Evening Standard 450

  Murdani, General Benny 251, 253, 270, 289, 290

  Murdoch, Rupert:

  and a ‘communications revolution’ 64

  a free market Karl Marx 7–8, 11

  hijacks popular journalism 77, 79

  visits Indonesia 316–17

  and the Labour Party 29

  papers controlled by 11–12, 71, 72, 76, 79, 84, 154

  and Sky Television 84, 433–4

  and Thatcher 8, 12, 14, 433, 434

  Murray, Len 51

  Murray Island, Australia 546

  Murrow, Edward 87

  Harvest of Shame 381

  Murton Colliery, Durham 46, 47–53, 55–6

  Murtopo, Ali 259, 260

  Mussolini, Benito 15, 38, 341

  Mysliwiec, Eva 472

  Punishing the Poor: The International Isolation of Kampuchea 457–8

  Nader, Ralph 380

  ‘Nam Phann’ (alias) 411

  Namibia 323

  Napalm, use of 5, 338, 390

  Nash, Elizabeth 505

  Nation (Bangkok) 209–10

  Nation, The (US) 350, 453, 513

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (US) 513

  National Audit Office 189

  National Economic Development Agency 499

  National Film Theatre (NFT) 83, 86

  National Health Service (NHS):

  acute services strategy 45

  bone marrow donor scheme 361

  Government ‘loyalists’ in 67, 114, 118

  Labour Party and 41, 98, 108

  managers 41, 43–5

  outstanding costs 60

  and privatisation 98

  and ‘productivity’ 119

  and trust hospitals 44, 118

  see also Hammersmith Hospital; King’s College Hospital

  National Intelligence Daily 251

  National Lampoon’s Vacation (film) 385

  National Security Council (US): and Khmer Rouge 414

  National Union of Journalists 434

  NATO 63, 218

  Naughton, John 141

  Nauru 248

  Nazi Party 14, 171, 214, 217, 278, 333, 345, 401, 427, 494

  Neak Loeung, Cambodia, bombing of 406

  Nellist, Dave 103, 110

  neo-Nazism see fascism

  Nettel, Julian 40

  Newcastle-upon-Tyne: youth services 31

  Newsday 431

  News of the World 85, 355

  News on Sunday 358

  New South Wales, Australia: Kurri Kurri miners 47, 329, 375

  newspapers see Press, the

  New Statesman and Society 171, 222

  Newsweek (US) 347, 351

  Newton, Tony 138

  ‘new world order’ 2, 147, 148, 168, 188, 193, 221, 222, 383

  New York Daily News 128–9

  New Yorker 215

  New York Times 129, 163, 199, 297, 341, 347, 351, 383, 453, 488, 490, 492, 512

  New Zealand:

  and British imperialism 529

  Labour Party 112

  NFT see National Film Theatre

  Nguyen Hai Xuan 141

  NHS see National Health Service

  Nicaragua:

  CIA operations in 200, 353, 504

  Contras in 416

  Sandinistas 199, 200, 503–5

  UNO coalition 490

  Nicaragua (film) 505

  Niemeyer, Sir Otto 536

  Nixon, Richard 5, 136, 146, 245, 248, 338, 364, 379, 382, 387, 406, 439, 480, 503

  Nolan, Anthony 361

  Nong Nhai camp, Cambodia 448

  Nordland, Rod 566 n101

  Noriega, General 15, 66, 129, 139

  ‘normalisation’ of atrocities 4, 16

  Normand, Roger 408, 409, 453

  Norodom Ranariddh, Prince see Ranariddh, Prince Norodom

  Norodom Sihanouk, Prince see Sihanouk, Prince Norodom

  North, Colonel Oliver 353

  North Shields: Meadow Well estate 29, 30

  Norton-Taylor, Richard 184

  Nottingham East Labour Party 110

  nuclear weapons:

  American test sites 335

  British test sites in Australia 532–3

  and the Gulf War 127, 182

  Labour Party and 189

  peace movement and 18, 100

  safety aspects 57–9

  and television coverage 86–7

  and Thatcher 188

  transportation of (in Britain) 57, 58

  UN ban on attacking facilities 182

  Nurrungar, Australia 532

  Nyerere, Julius 72

  Observer:

  profile of General Aidid 224

  coverage of Gulf War 2, 126, 130, 141, 145, 154, 157, 161, 171

  on the Khmer Rouge 465

  on ‘liberal intervention’ 228

  Shawcross article (‘The Trouble with John Pilger’) 440–1

  on Mark Thatcher 190

  vacuous reporting 65

  and the Second World War 91

  see also Bazoft, Farzad; Merritt, John

  O’Dwyer-Russell, Simon 414, 417, 421–4, 425, 449–50

  Official Secrets Act 10, 84, 422

  Oglesby, Carl 347

  oil industry:

  and East Timor 258, 275, 281, 311

  Indonesian 323

  and Libya 187

  price rises 174

  Oldham Labour Party 103

  Omaar, Rakiya 223

  Ombai-Wetar deep-water channels 257

  Operasi Keamanan (‘Operation Security’) 285–6

  Operasi Komodo 249, 269

  Operasi Persatuan (‘Operation Unity’) 286

  Operation Arc Light 132

  Operation Badge Torch 415, 417–18

  Operation Ranch Hand (Operation Hades) 390

  Operation Restore Hope see under Somalia

  Orwell, George 213

  Road to Wigan Pier 46

  O’Shane, Pat 547–8

  Oswald, Lee Harvey 346, 347, 348, 349, 352

  Outsiders, The (film) xiii–xiv

  Overseas Development Institute, London 175

  Overseas Development Ministry 425

  Owen, David 258, 301

  Oxfam 172, 173, 175, 436n, 455, 456–8, 472

  Punishing the Poor: The International Isolation of Kampuchea 457–8

  Ozal, Turgut, President of Turkey 178–9

  Packer, Kerry 11, 12, 525, 526

  Page, Geoff: ‘Inscription at Villers-Bretonneux’ 529

  Pailin, Cambodia 465, 492

  Pakistan, effect of Gulf War on 174

  Palestinians, the:

  and Anglo-American interests 195

  demonisation of 159

  Israeli brutality towards 138, 148, 149, 180, 509–10

  Kuwaiti torture of 161

  refugee camps 507–10

  Pallister, David 184

  Panama: US invasion of 65–6, 129, 193

  Panorama (TV) 9, 84, 119

  Papua New Guinea 248

  Paraguay, effects of Gulf War on 173

  Parer, Damien: Men of Timor (film) 237

  Parry, Mary 56

  Parry, Tom 51–2

  Pasqui, Ilio 396

  Pat, John 540

  PBS see Public Broadcast Service

  Peck, James: introduction to The Chomsky Reader 337

  Peden, William 59

  Pedler, John 430, 431, 473, 491, 572 n15

  Pemberton, Greg 533

  Pent
agon Papers 158, 183

  Pereira, Agio 321

  Perez de Cuellar, Javier 241

  Peters, Brian 266–70, 273, 304

  Philippine Islands:

  Calabarzon ‘superproject’ 499–500

  and land reform 498–9

  the media and 69, 500–1

  natural disasters 69–70, 497

  political killings 501

  poverty in 201–3, 206, 497, 499, 500, 501

  Press agencies in 73

  resistance movements 18–19, 500, 501–2

  World Bank Conference, Manila (1976) 209

  World Bank loans and 69–70, 204, 205–6, 498

  Phillips, Melanie 32

  Phnom Chat, Cambodia 410, 411

  Phnom Penh, Cambodia:

  author’s visits: 1979 401, 402–3, 456–7; 1980 475–7; 1989 404, 405, 1992 478, 482–6

  Gareth’s Evans’s visit 463–4

  and Khieu Samphan’s near lynching 461–2, 463

  Khmer Rouge invasion (1975) 462

  National Paediatric Hospital 462, 472

  and Sihanouk’s return (1991) 460–1

  water supplies 471, 485

  Phnom Penh Post 493

  Pierce, Gareth: ‘Unleashing an Uncritical Press’ 36

  Pike, Douglas 452

  Pike Congressional Committee 163

  Pilger, Claude 327–31

  Pilger, Elsie 327–31, 375, 523, 537

  Pilger, Sam 373, 375, 376, 379

  Pilger, Zoe 23, 382, 383, 385, 386, 387, 388, 523

  Pinatubo, Mount, Philippines 497, 500

  Pine Gap, Australia 532

  Pinto, Constancio 321

  Piper, Eric 364, 365

  Platoon (film) 90

  Platt, Jack 523

  Podlaski, Bo Pha 478, 481

  Podlaski, Ron 468, 478, 479, 480, 481–2

  Pol Pot 5, 402, 406

  American funding of 409

  Britain and 66, 424

  and China 492

  gestapo 405

  as ‘Hitler revisited’ 425–6

  and Mao 402, 441

  and the Press 418

  rehabilitation of 452, 453–4

  strategy for return to power 149, 407–9, 474, 489, 491, 493, 494

  and United Nations 227, 407, 409, 412, 415–16, 419, 426, 427, 428, 429, 443, 459, 461, 491, 493–4

  Vietnamese defeat of 440, 441, 451

  see also Khmer Rouge

  Polaris missiles: unsafe warheads 57, 58, 59

  police:

  American 514

  Australian: and Aborigines 538, 539–40

  British:

  and miners’ strike 51

  and racism 33, 34–5, 36

  Police and Criminal Evidence Act (1984) 10

  polls, opinion:

  on Conservative Government and policies 119, 120

  on Gulf War 74, 126, 143

  on nuclear weapons 59, 60

  poll tax, opposition to 32, 100, 120

  and Labour Party 103, 105

  Pont, Pierre 305

  Pope, Greg 306

  Popov, Gavril 378

  popular movements, power of 100–1

  see also East Timor; Philippine Islands

  Portugal: and East Timor 240, 241, 247, 249, 250, 256–7, 259–60, 276, 277, 282, 318–20

  poverty (in Britain) 16, 27, 28, 30, 31–2, 67, 92, 100–1, 117

 

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