John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film makers.

His books include HEROES, DISTANT VOICES, HIDDEN AGENDAS and most recently THE NEW RULERS OF THE WORLD which, amongst much else, debunks the myth of globalisation.

Born in Australia he arrived in London in 1962 and was a feature writer on the Daily Mirror and an accredited war correspondent in Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Biafra. He has regularly contributed to the Guardian, the Independent, The New Statesman The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation Melbourne, The Sydney Morning Herald and various French, Italian, Scandinavian, Canadian and Japanese periodicals.

His many awards include 1966 Descriptive Writer of the Year, 1967 Report of the Year/Journalist of the Year, 1974 News Reporter of the Year, 1977 Campaigning Journalist of the year, 1979 Journalist of the Year, 1979-80 UN Media Peace Prize Australia, 1991 American Television Academy Award, 1995 International de Television Geneve Award. In September 2004 he was appointed Visiting Professor at Cornell University.

He is working currently on a major new book for Bantam Press.

Over the last few decades, 'investigative journalism' has come to mean a kind of reporting that reveals the truth behind the facade and exposes the underlying agendas of those in power.

For the last 30 years nobody has been better known for revealing those 'hidden agendas' than John Pilger.

In this anthology - the first of its kind to be published in the UK - he has selected 35 articles and extracts from books that have broken the official silence and exposed injustice and misuse of power, ranging from 1945 to the present.

With topics ranging from Vietnam and Cambodia to East Timor and Palestine, many of the pieces 'revisit' the locations of John Pilger's own reporting of the last 30 years.