11-11-2009, 08:47 AM
I was about to post this just now myself but did a quick search on 'Pilger' first because, Magda being so on-the-ball, I wondered if I might have missed it due to inattention of late. Good thing I did.
Anyway, I commend it to all. A quick scan of the Aussie on-line MSM indicates that, apart from soto-voce murmerings of 'traitor', Pilger is as always being ignored - prophets unwelcome in their own land and all that eh? He has offended against a massive guilty and inverted Australian version of 'omerta' and must therefore be shunned or worse.
He does repeat the odd bit from other recent writings but, taken as a whole it is yet another devastating indictment of the West in general and fawning obsequious, hypocritical, 'lying-through-their-teeth' Aussie political leaders in particular.
The only issue on which I depart from Pilger is in his apparent belief that an awakened population can succeed in changing things fundamentally for the better. Maybe he just feels he has to offer the possibility of genuine change to remain accessible to the masses. Personally I don't see it.
Seems to me that unless and until humanity can arrange its affairs in such a way that leadership, wealth and power become inversely correlated with psychopathy, rather than the near 100% positive correlation of history and the present then, with the pace of military/surveillance/control/propaganda technology being what it is, we remain on a fast track to Armageddon. Pretty depressing view I guess, but I do still manage to enjoy life.
Anyway, I commend it to all. A quick scan of the Aussie on-line MSM indicates that, apart from soto-voce murmerings of 'traitor', Pilger is as always being ignored - prophets unwelcome in their own land and all that eh? He has offended against a massive guilty and inverted Australian version of 'omerta' and must therefore be shunned or worse.
He does repeat the odd bit from other recent writings but, taken as a whole it is yet another devastating indictment of the West in general and fawning obsequious, hypocritical, 'lying-through-their-teeth' Aussie political leaders in particular.
The only issue on which I depart from Pilger is in his apparent belief that an awakened population can succeed in changing things fundamentally for the better. Maybe he just feels he has to offer the possibility of genuine change to remain accessible to the masses. Personally I don't see it.
Seems to me that unless and until humanity can arrange its affairs in such a way that leadership, wealth and power become inversely correlated with psychopathy, rather than the near 100% positive correlation of history and the present then, with the pace of military/surveillance/control/propaganda technology being what it is, we remain on a fast track to Armageddon. Pretty depressing view I guess, but I do still manage to enjoy life.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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