Chuckie...one of the great self-haters amongst us.
BTW ...you can keep Pilger...everyone knows his method of journalism is quite, quite poor. Hence the term pilgerism...
And look....chuckie does it also
Hmmmm...the Chagos archipelago...hmmmmm
Aha...!!! Diego Garcia....why didnt a say so???
And yeah.... they Yanks and Brits for no good reason went and grabbed land in the middle of nowowehre and in some god-forsaken corner of the world (from some 2000 exslaves btw who had been there maybe 100 years at the most...)
....and built a Cold War base for the strategic and miltary needs to face the threats posed by your other heros - the Ruskies.
Never mind....they have the right to return and have the court case to get their compensation.
Seems pilger may have forgotten to mention that in his book or film.....
Perhaps they were casualities...but every war has these sorts of stories. and really no worse than those whose houses get resumed for a freeway.
