Authors: John Pilger
television:
and Broadcasting Bill amendments (1990) 68, 83â7
and censorship 83â7, 183
current affairs programmes on 6â7, 84â7, 92
coverage of Gulf War 71,
126â7, 133â5, 141â4, 153, 159, 166â7, 171, 183â4
distortion of news on 65â8, 69â72, 88â9, 141â4, 153â4
independent documentary film makers 18
interviews with Irish politicians 67, 87
and murder of reporters in East Timor 234, 249, 264, 265â70, 273, 282â3
and Rupert Murdoch 7â8, 84, 433â4
coverage of Somalia 220, 222
Thatcher's political pressure on 6, 83â7, 433â4, 447
see also
British Broadcasting
Corporation; Central
Television; Granada
Television; Thames
Television
Temple, Corina 52
Temple, Dave 46, 52
Terkel, Studs 17â18
terrorism, media coverage of 73
Teverina, Tuscany 393, 394â5, 397
Thailand (
see also
Bangkok):
and American support for the Khmer Rouge 409â10, 411, 412, 413â14, 436, 439â40, 475
Army collaboration with Khmer Rouge 409, 410, 411, 466, 492, 493
British Cambodian operations run from 414, 415, 416, 417, 419, 420â2, 425, 436, 437â8
and Chatichai Government 474â5
economy of 209, 418
environmental disaster in 211
and investment in Cambodia 486
Khmer Rouge border camps and bases in 409â10, 448, 459â60, 466, 486
and Oxfam 456, 457
Western journalists in 411, 417, 436, 442
Thames Television:
loses franchise over
Death on the Rock
6, 9, 84, 434, 447
This Week
series 6
Thames Water: in Phnom Penh 471
Thaoun Prasith 412
Thatcher, Margaret:
and arms exports to Hussein 118, 155, 355
and Bazoft's murder 354, 355
and British involvement in Cambodia 414â15, 417, 420, 437, 455
and the co-opting of British liberalism 119
economic hardship under 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 117
and education 31
foreign policy of 188, 196
and housing 24
visits Indonesia 306
and Iraq 155
âloyalists' under 67, 115
John Major a disciple of 37â8
and the media 9, 68, 77, 84, 85, 86, 87, 433, 434
and the miners 51, 55
and Rupert Murdoch 7, 8, 84, 433
portrait at IMF Conference 207â8
and racism 34, 35, 108
âreceived truths' from 63, 64
secrets legislation under 66â7, 84, 114â15, 422
and Thames Television 6, 9, 84, 434, 447
and US boycott of Vietnam 455
see also
Thatcherism
Thatcher, Mark 190
Thatcherism 109, 113â14, 115, 119
Thayer, Nate 452â3, 488
Third World, the:
and American imperialism 149â50, 168
media coverage of 70, 71â3, 74â5
and World Bank loans 195, 203â4, 208â9, 211, 345
Third World Resurgence
19, 72
This Week
(TV) 6
Thmar Pouk, Cambodia 466
Thomas, Judge Clarence 512â13
Thompson, Edward 117, 119
Thornburgh, Richard 225
Thornton, Clive 77â8, 79
Tien Harto 284
Tigrayans 515, 517, 519
Time-Life 349
Time
magazine 220
Times, The
:
coverage of Cambodia 454, 455
warned off East Timor 305
coverage of Gulf War 126, 152
and Woodrow Wyatt 85
and World War II 91, 401
see also
Russell, William Howard
Times Newspapers 433
Times-Warner 72
Timor
see
East Timor; West Timor
Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) 241, 249, 250
Timorese Popular Democratic Association (Apodeti) 242
Timorese Social Democratic Association (ASDT) 242
Timor Gap, the 258
Timor Gap Treaty 311â12, 318, 535
Today
(newspaper) 355
Today
(Radio 4 programme) 14, 86
Todd, Robert: house-building project 505â6
Tolfree, Maureen (
nee
Peters) 304â5
Tolstoy, L. N.: quoted 208
Tomahawk cruise missiles 133â4, 143, 148
Tonga 248
Tonkin, Derek 417, 437, 438, 444, 450, 471
Tornado aircraft, British 175, 176, 189â90
Townsend, Professor Peter: âInner City Deprivation and Premature Deaths in Greater Manchester' 28
Toxteth uprising (1982) 31, 32
Tracanelli, Margherita 321
trade unions:
and collaboration with Government 86
journalists' 78
and the Labour Party 107, 111, 120
and the middle classes 116
miners' 50â1, 54â5, 115
routing of 29
and Mrs Thatcher 433
Trades Union Congress (TUC) 108, 111
Training and Enterprise Councils 115
trials, reporting of 10, 446â8
Trident submarines 57, 58â60, 110, 120
Trumpington, Baroness 302
Truth Game, The
(film) 86â7
Try Sutrisno 563 n13
Tudjman, Franjo, President of Croatia 214, 215, 216
Tuol Sleng extermination centre, Cambodia 455, 494
Turchin, Valentyn 371, 378
Turkey:
and the EC 179
and US bribes 178â9
and US PR firm 295
Turner, Michele 321
Tuscany, Italy 393, 394â5, 396â7
TV Guide
: âWhy American TV is So Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda' 187
Twining, Charles H., Jr 463, 493
Uch Kiman 448
UDT
see
Timorese Democratic Union
Uganda, effect of Gulf War on 174
UKUSA Treaty 532
UN
see
United Nations
Un-Americans, The
(BBC TV series) 102
UNBRO
see
United Nations Border Relief Operation
UNDP
see
United Nations Development Programme
unemployment:
in Australia 524, 527
in Britain 28â9, 31â2, 46, 51â6, 110â11, 114, 150
in the United States 111â12, 335, 512
UNICEF:
aid to Cambodia 403, 436
reports:
on Iraq 177
on Jordan 174â5
on Third World debt repayment 203, 211
Union of Communication Workers 120
unions
see
trade unions
UNITA (Angola) 226, 490
United Nations (UN):
American manipulation of 15, 16, 135, 136, 138, 148, 162, 177â83, 186, 188, 225â8, 486â8, 516â17
Australia and 531
British âAsylum' Bill condemned by 36â7
British violation of Charter 186, 188
and Cambodia 226, 227, 403, 407, 409, 410, 411, 412â13, 415â16, 418, 419, 424, 426â7, 428, 429, 442, 443, 448, 452, 459â60, 461, 462â6, 468, 471, 475, 477, 481, 482â91, 492, 493â4, 534â5
and East Timor 241, 244, 249, 255â7, 258, 259, 267, 281, 295â6, 298, 299, 318, 322
and the linking of Eritrea and Ethiopia 516â17, 519
ânatural disasters' as defined by 174
report on deaths among Palestinian children 509
Resolution 661 on sanctions 172â3
and West New Guinea 244
and the World Bank 175
see also
UNICEF
and the following entries
United Nations Border Relief Operation (UNBRO) 412, 459
United Nations Children's Fund 484
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 471, 486
United Nations Fund for Population Activities Prize 285
United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) 36â7, 460
United Nations Human Rights
Commission 236, 292
n
, 299, 305, 315, 318, 322, 426
United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) 465
United Press International (UPI) 72, 73
United States of America:
arms industry 129, 159, 163â4, 165, 180, 185, 188, 220, 223, 246â7, 254â5, 297â8, 299â300, 313, 318, 383
and Australia 531, 533â6
and Cambodia:
bombing 405, 406, 410, 439 and Hun Sen regime 473, 474 policy 409, 416, 439â40, 464, 471 and Prince Sihanouk 429, 430â1, 474 support for Khmer Rouge 226, 409â10, 411â12, 413â14, 431â2, 436â7, 451â3, 466
and China 426â7
civil rights in 343, 344, 381, 511â14
and death squads in El Salvador 73, 391
and Ethiopia 515â17, 519
and Europe 340
freedom in 343
German Jews in 334, 344
and the Gulf War 127, 128â30, 132, 133â4, 135, 138, 140â5, 147, 148, 151â4, 157â60, 165, 170â1, 177â83, 184, 185, 220, 226, 227, 382â3, 390â2
imperialistic aims of 88â93, 148â50, 161â2, 166, 168, 194, 228, 229, 337â8, 339, 341â2, 392
and Indonesia 245â7
and Indonesian occupation of East Timor 234, 235, 250â1, 252, 254â5, 256, 257, 294â5, 297â301, 313, 318
and âinformation imperialism' 72â4, 88â9
intelligentsia 339, 341â5
and support for Israel 73, 138, 148â9, 165, 213, 227, 339â40, 508
and the Kurds 162â3, 165â9
murders and mugging in 332, 384
and nuclear weapons 57â8
invasion of Panama 15, 61, 65â6, 129, 193
Press 99â100;
see also New York Times; Washington Post etc
.
and Roosevelt's ânew deals' 99â100
and Somalia 220â2, 223â5, 228
unemployment and poverty 111â12, 335
and United Nations
see
United Nations, American manipulation of
and Vietnam 212, 226, 392, 409, 416, 436, 442, 443, 455, 473;
see also
Vietnam War
and the World Bank 175, 204
and the division of Yugoslavia 213, 216â17
UNTAC
see
United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
UPI
see
United Press International
Urbanak, Zdener 64
USAID 466
US News and World Report
178
Vallez, Teresita 500
Valli, Gianfranco 393â4
Valued Added Tax (VAT) 117, 119
Vane Tempest Colliery, Durham 46, 47, 53
VAT
see
Value Added Tax
Vergara, Camilo Jose 513
Vestey, Lord 542
Vickery, Michael 474
Victoria, Queen 328, 536
Vietnam (
see also
Vietnam War):
American policy and 91, 212, 226, 392, 409, 413, 416, 436, 442, 443, 455, 472
Britain and 66, 455
and Cambodia 66, 405, 409, 416, 418, 435â6, 439, 440, 441â3, 449, 451â2, 455, 465, 476, 487â8, 490, 493
Vietnam Project's Limb Centre 469, 478
Vietnam Trading Corporation 471
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation 146â7, 409, 469
n
, 480
Vietnam War:
American bombing and civilian casualties 91, 132â3, 141â2, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 391â2
American imperialism and 90â1
use of chemicals in 144, 286, 338, 390
and Disney's âVictory Field' tableau 389, 391, 392
and the Gulf of Tonkin incident 13, 351, 352
and the Gulf War 133, 147, 157â8
Hollywood's treatment of 89â90
jargon and euphemisms in 132, 133, 134
and Kennedy's assassination 347, 351
media coverage of 73, 126
myths about 90â1, 126, 147, 156â7, 337â8, 341, 389
Operation Arc Light 132
Operation Ranch Hand (Hades) 390
and the
Pentagon Papers
158, 183
and soldiers âmissing in action' 383
veterans from 146, 477â8,
see
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
Vietnamese women killed in 390
Vorontsov, Yuli 181
Waite, Terry 100
Waldegrave, William 45, 118, 419, 445
Waldheim, Kurt 255, 256
Waldron, Karl 152
Walesa, Lech 67
Walker, Brian 457
Wall Street Journal
200
Wallace, George, Governor of Alabama 514
Walsh, Pat 321
Walters, Patrick 316
Walton, Doug 49
Wanandi, Marcus 315
war:
media and 125â7, 130â1, 172
see
Falklands War; Gulf War; Vietnam War; World Wars
Warby, Maria 51
Warby, Patrick 51
War Game, The
(TV) 8
War on Want (British agency) 518
Warren, Chief Justice Earl 351â2
Warren Commission 346, 347, 348, 349, 351
Washingtonian
magazine 348
Washington Post
57, 143, 236, 297, 348, 350, 389â90, 441
Washington Quarterly
452
water industry, British 66
see also
Thames Water
Watergate affair 352
Waterhouse, Rosie 184, 434
Wattez, Edouard 486
Watts, David 305
Wave Hill, Australia 542
Weir, Fred 198
Weiss, Robert 389
WE177 bombs 58
West, Nigel
see
Allason, Rupert
West New Guinea: and the UN 244
West Timor 240, 242, 252, 271
White, Colonel Richard âSnake' 140
Whitehead, Ian 415
Whitlam, Gough 530â1
and Aboriginal land rights 248, 541, 542, 543
and East Timor 243, 244, 247â9, 257, 268, 269, 288, 311
sacked by Sir John Kerr 532, 536, 543
Whitty, Larry 110
WHO
see
World Health Organisation
Wicker, Tom 383
Wilenski, Peter 427
Wilkins, J. L. 305
Willesee, Don 269
Williams, Bill 49, 55
Willis, Norman 111
Wilson, Harold 435
Windlesham, Lord 434
Winer, Jonathan 409
Wisconsin
, USS 148
Wisnumurti, Nugroho 295â6
witchhunting: in Labour Party 102â6, 109
women:
British miners' wives 56
in Eritrea 516
and Vietnam War 390