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Certificate of merit, chicago international television awards, 2003. John pilger s great eyewitness photographers 2001 the new rulers of the world 2002 tell me non lies. In 2001, john pilger made the new rulers of the world, a film exploring the impact of globalisation. The new rulers of the world puts the story of multinationals global domination into a political context and demonstrates how the west has increased its stranglehold on poor countries by using the might of the imf, world bank and world trade organization to control their economies. 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. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
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The fact that this is a dependency view of development is quite clear from john pilgers own summary of the documentary. John pilgers 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. John pilger, an australian, has twice won british journalisms highest award, that of journalist of the year, for his work all over the world, especially as a war correspondent. John pilgers television film the new rulers of the world was, among much else, a debunking of the myth of globalization.
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