Customer Reviews
excellent, but updates would be useful - By: Colin, 12 Oct 2008 
I admire John Pilger's style, &in many ways some of these documentaries are more shocking than first time around. While I suspect John has a particular viewpoint, I do not feel that he is presenting biased views or pursuing an agenda - apart from highlighting injustice & "governments' immorality"
The only thing I feel lackingin the packaging of these DVDs would have been some clear dating of each documentaryin the title sequences orin the DVD index itself. I had to try & piece together some of the historical context & wait until the end to read the copyright date of each documentary to be sure. A page or so of 2007/2008 updates would have added a lot to the package also - eg what happened with the Chagos islanders sinhce the time of John Pilger's documentary. But altogether a highly recommended package that stirred my emotions, my questioniong & reminded me of some issuies I had forgotten.
Pilger is Awesome...but it's not just the United States. - By: P. Gagliardi, 11 May 2008 
I love Pilger, but I think his focus is a little narrow. The evils being done by the US have been well aided & abetted by most other European intelligence agencies. And the ones who haven't helped have certainly looked the other way, taking the Quaker-like free ride while we run wild across the globe securing our (and consequently their) commercial & military interestsin unstable areas. And the Soviets have committed just as many atrocities for as long as that chess game lasted. Make no mistake, the rulers of nations live by jungle law, & we, the abiding majority, are so many sheep being herded by our voracious masters, who have only gotten better at hiding their fangs behind the gleaming smile of consumerism. Basically, if you are not livingin a commune cut off from the rest of civilization (like the Amish), then you (and your tax/consumer dollars) are part of the problem; but hopefully one that a large meteor or super volcano will be attending to soon. :)
10 STARS!! Americans must see these! Not available in US! - By: ., 09 May 2008 Here's why every American MUST see these videos: We have been fed sheer make-believe from our government & media for several lifetimes now. What is being done around the world by U.S. government agencies, U.S. military forces, & U.S. corporate henchmen-slash-politicians is not only illegal, but destructive, immoral, & anti-everything we think the U.S. stands for. When I stumbled onto America's real-time foreign policy, I was shocked... angry... incredulous... WE are the world's most dangerous entity. WE have disrupted more decent democracies, world-wide, than any regimein history--for our own benefit, often for the sheer glory of conquest. We seek exclusive control of raw materials like oil, or most importantly, military footholds. Nicaragua, Vietnam, Palestine, Cambodia, Iraq, Diego Garciain the Chagos Islands, Palestine, Chile, Panama, El Salvador... just a partial list of countries John Pilger addressesin these high-quality DVDs.
This 4-disc set includes 12 unforgettable documentaries & a lively Q&A session from 2006. Use them with the Internet--check the facts, get updates, weep anew at the sorrows being inflicted upon our worldin the name of the New American Empire. (Also see The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, & the End of the Republic (Blowback Trilogy)
We are *not* a benign land of democracy-loving bureaucrats bent on spreading peace & prosperity-- but a true threat to any sovereign nation who will not bow to our interests on our terms. We intend to keep, & to expand as quickly as possible, our imperial reach. We do not obey International Law, but no nation or media outlet has the nerve to call us to task. We do not observe the Geneva Conventions, but no one dares stand up against The Empire, because we dominate all the world financial markets & hold the U.N. hostage with our monetary & military support.
Can you imagine Germany, or Ecuador, or South Korea, or Japan, having large, permanent military installations on, or near, American soil? Yet that is what we've donein over 70 nations. We operate over 800 military bases worldwide-- far from the probing eyes of the American taxpayer.
Only a few months ago, I was a staunch conservative, minding my own business, ignorant of what I now know to be the truth of my government. I can never go back. It doesn't matter who gets elected-- the problem is too big to vote out. It is truly a system-wide failure of our present form of government. It has become a monster, & the monster is armed & dangerous. Our government has the most powerful WMDs ever created-- & our government is the only one to have actually used them. This monster is quietly taking away all our Constitutional freedoms... & what is left of our money & non-government jobs.
Definitely very talented person - By: Michael Kerjman, 20 Sep 2007 Condensed to a point of no-dissent, documentaries provide gloomy basics of an Australian multicultural reality of biologically motivated opportunities, if any, of which "mateship" officially proclaimed the most is.
A non-expertin the very dawns of establishing the most modern UK colony is being convincingly delighted on both a state of indigenous affairs and, factually, on milestones of British Australia's history, making a viewer confused for not hearing of these docos much earlier.
As understood from Mr. J. Pilger's more recent articles, his openly pro-islamist assumption of a modern world surrounding leaves a reviewer wondering at which point producer's logic & realistic approach have been dispersing into profoundly imaginary figures of imagination.
Definitely very talented person.
should be compulsory viewing in schools - By: reader, 21 Jul 2007 I saw most of these when they were broadcast on ITVin the 70's/80's (anybody remember when ITV used to screen material other than pop idol & x factor?), they made me really angry then & most of them make me angry again on rewatching. Everything about this box set is top class except perhaps the title but I'll forgive that, Pilger's docu about the arms trade is worth the price on it's own. Watch them, get angry & do something about it because history just repeats itself, look at Iraq today & the threats toward Hugo Chaves & othersin Latin America.
