John Pilger The New rulers of The World

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• published: 29 Jul 2014
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It is extremely interesting to watch this documentary now 13 years after... It was produced the same year as the financial global elite started the implementation of their globally imposed new order through the 9/11 event. With 13 years of facts in our hands, we can all agree on the fact that the world hasn't become a safer place, and not because the "terrorists", but because of those claiming they will protect us from them. Today we see civil war after civil war being initiated in the Arab world, in Africa and in Europe by CIA and NATO while the bankers and the international businessmen are enjoying a complete immunity from prosecution while they are concentrating more and more wealth and power to themselves. We see a militarized police force in the western world oppressing and persecuting its own citizens against every attempt to protest the destruction of Democracy and Justice. We see the media accompanying this War on Democracy and Justice and we see those we vote for giving up right after right, demolishing the nation states and their sovereignty due to an orchestrated and staged, financial crisis. 'The New Rulers Of The World (2001) analyses the new global economy and reveals that the divisions between the rich and poor have never been greater - two thirds of the world's children live in poverty - and the gulf is widening like never before. The film turns the spotlight on the new rulers of the world - the great multinationals and the governments and institutions that back them such as the IMF, the World Bank and the World TRADE Organisation under whose rules millions of people throughout the world lose their jobs and livelihood. The West, explains Pilger, has increased its stranglehold on poor countries by using the might of these powerful FINANCIAL institutions to control their economies. "A small group of powerful individuals are now richer than most of the population of Africa," he says, "just 200 giant corporations dominate a quarter of the world’s economic activity. General Motors is now bigger than Denmark. Ford is bigger than South Africa. Enormously rich men like Bill Gates, have a wealth greater than all of Africa. Golfer Tiger Woods was paid more to promote Nike than the entire workforce making the company’s products in Indonesia received." 'The New Rulers Of The World' is a collision of two of Pilger’s continuing themes - imperialism and the injustice of poverty. It observes the parallel between modern-day globalisation and old-world imperialism. "There’s no difference between the quite ruthless intervention of international capital into foreign markets these days than there was in the old days, when they were BACKED UPby gunboats," says Pilger. "Much of my global view has come over years of seeing how imperialism works and how the world is divided between the rich, who get richer, and the poor, who get poorer, and the rich get richer on the backs of the poor. That division hasn’t changed for about 500 years, but there are new, deceptive ways of shoring it up and ensuring that most of the world’s resources are concentrated in as few hands as possible. What is different today is there is a worldwide movement that understands this deception and is gaining strength, especially among the young, many of whom are far better educated about the chameleon nature of capitalism than those in the 1960s. Moreover, if the intensity of Establishment propaganda is a guide, at times bordering on institutional panic, then the new movement is already succeeding." The New Rulers Of The World was a Carlton Television production for ITV first broadcast on ITV1, 18 July 2001. Director: Alan Lowery. Producer: John Pilger. Associate Producers: Chris Martin and Laurelle Keough. Awards: Gran Prix Leonardo Award, 2003; Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Television Awards, 2003.