Stealing a Nation

Beware colonialist and imperious nations!

If you think you will be able to commit theft, murder, and oppression under the guise of your fabricated laws without being called out, think again. John Pilger has locked onto the scent of such nations for decades and he is now bringing our attention to a little island called Diego Garcia. It is a tiny island part of the Chagos Islands archipelago. In "Stealing a Nation" Pilger documents how Britain and America worked together to displace a couple thousand Chagossians and left them poor and homeless. I appreciate Pilger giving his attention to the plight of such a small number of people especially compared to his other works focusing on all of Latin America, or Afghanistan, or Palestine. It may seem like a trifle, and one diplomat/talking head pretty much said it was, but uprooting people from their homes is plain wrong and it's the act of a despot. But nooooo, we'd never say that about the democratic republics of the U. S. and Britain.