john pilger is right up there with chris hedges in his unvarnished critique of the crap that is piled on our heads daily by our handlers...
The width
of a cigarette paper separates the Democratic and Republican
parties on economic and foreign policies. Both represent the
super rich and the impoverishment of a nation from which
trillions of tax dollars have been transferred to a permanent
war industry and banks that are little more than criminal
enterprises. Obama is as reactionary and violent as George W.
Bush, and in some ways he is worse. His personal speciality is
the use of Hellfire missile-armed drones against defenceless
people. Under cover of a partial withdrawal of troops from
Afghanistan, he has sent US special forces to 120 countries
where death squads are trained. He has revived the old cold war
on two fronts: against China in Asia and with a "shield" of
missiles aimed at Russia. The first black president has presided
over the incarceration and surveillance of greater numbers of
black people than were enslaved in 1850. He has prosecuted more
whistleblowers - truth-tellers - than any of his predecessors.
His vice-president, Joe Biden, a zealous warmonger, has called
WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange a "hi-tech terrorist". Biden
has also converted to the cause of gay marriage.
One of
America's true heroes is the gay soldier Bradley Manning, the
whistleblower alleged to have provided WikiLeaks with the epic
evidence of American carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was the
Obama administration that smeared his homosexuality as weird,
and it was Obama himself who declared a man convicted of no
crime to be guilty.
[...]
The truth
is that what matters to those who aspire to control our lives is
not skin pigment or gender, or whether or not we are gay, but
the class we serve. The goals are to ensure that we look inward
on ourselves, not outward to others and never comprehend the
sheer scale of undemocratic power, and to that we collaborate in
isolating those who resist. This attrition of criminalising,
brutalising and banning protest can too easily turn western
democracies into states of fear.
[...]
That is
why the people of Greece ought to be our inspiration. By their
own painful experience they know their freedom can only be
regained by standing up to the German Central Bank, the
International Monetary Fund and their own quislings in Athens.
People across Latin America have achieved this: the
indignados of Bolivia who saw off the water privateers and
the Argentinians who told the IMF what to do with their debt.
The courage of disobedience was their weapon. Remember Bradley
Manning.
greece is offering us a model and a template for what we should be opting for in the way of resistance to the inexorable takeover by our super-rich elites... i am reasonably sure spain will be next up...
Labels: Argentina, Barack Obama, Bolivia, Bradley Manning, civil disobedience, Democrats, gay marriage, Germany, Greece, IMF, indignados, John Pilger, protests, Republicans, Spain
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