indianbadazz
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This is an article written by John Pilger, a well known journalist who has more than 40 years of experience in the field.
I have been posting threads regularly trying to get a response from people about the ongoing crisis in America.It probably isnt a crisis faced only by the US. It affects each and every individual on the face of this earth and we need to wipe out terrorism completely. But in trying to do so are we committing acts which could be equated with other forms of terrorism.
Here's the article:
John Pilger :13 Sep 2001
http://http://pilger.carlton.com/print/77937
If the attacks on America have their source in the Islamic world, who can be surprised?
Two days earlier, eight people were killed in southern Iraq when British and American planes bombed civilian areas. Not a word appeared in the
mainstream media. An estimated 200,000 Iraqis, according to the Health Education Trust, died during and in the immediate aftermath of the slaughter known as the Gulf war. This was never news that touched public consciousness in the west. At least a million civilians, half of them children, have since died in Iraq as a result of a medieval embargo imposed by the United States and Britain. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, the mujahedin, which gave birth to the fanatical
Taliban, was largely the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency; the terrorist training camps where Osama Bin Laden, "America's most wanted man", allegedly planned his attacks, were built with American money and backing. In Palestine,
the enduring illegal occupation by Israel would have collapsed long ago were it not for American backing.
Far from being the terrorists of the world, the Islamic peoples have been its victims - that is, the victims of American fundamentalism, whose power, in all its forms, military, strategic and economic, is the greatest source of terrorism on
earth. This fact is largely censored from the western media. That Tony Blair,whose government sells lethal weapons to Israel and has sprayed Iraq and Yugoslavia with cluster bombs and depleted uranium and was the greatest arms
supplier to the genocidists in Indonesia, can be taken seriously when he now speaks about the "shame" of the "new evil of mass terrorism" says much about the censorship of our collective sense of how the world is managed. One of Blair's favourite words - fatuous - comes to mind. Alas, it is no comfort to the families of the thousands of ordinary Americans who have died so terribly that the perpetrators of their suffering may be the product of western policies.
I have been posting threads regularly trying to get a response from people about the ongoing crisis in America.It probably isnt a crisis faced only by the US. It affects each and every individual on the face of this earth and we need to wipe out terrorism completely. But in trying to do so are we committing acts which could be equated with other forms of terrorism.
Here's the article:
John Pilger :13 Sep 2001
http://http://pilger.carlton.com/print/77937
If the attacks on America have their source in the Islamic world, who can be surprised?
Two days earlier, eight people were killed in southern Iraq when British and American planes bombed civilian areas. Not a word appeared in the
mainstream media. An estimated 200,000 Iraqis, according to the Health Education Trust, died during and in the immediate aftermath of the slaughter known as the Gulf war. This was never news that touched public consciousness in the west. At least a million civilians, half of them children, have since died in Iraq as a result of a medieval embargo imposed by the United States and Britain. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, the mujahedin, which gave birth to the fanatical
Taliban, was largely the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency; the terrorist training camps where Osama Bin Laden, "America's most wanted man", allegedly planned his attacks, were built with American money and backing. In Palestine,
the enduring illegal occupation by Israel would have collapsed long ago were it not for American backing.
Far from being the terrorists of the world, the Islamic peoples have been its victims - that is, the victims of American fundamentalism, whose power, in all its forms, military, strategic and economic, is the greatest source of terrorism on
earth. This fact is largely censored from the western media. That Tony Blair,whose government sells lethal weapons to Israel and has sprayed Iraq and Yugoslavia with cluster bombs and depleted uranium and was the greatest arms
supplier to the genocidists in Indonesia, can be taken seriously when he now speaks about the "shame" of the "new evil of mass terrorism" says much about the censorship of our collective sense of how the world is managed. One of Blair's favourite words - fatuous - comes to mind. Alas, it is no comfort to the families of the thousands of ordinary Americans who have died so terribly that the perpetrators of their suffering may be the product of western policies.
Naw, it's just that, where do you find the time to follow all these things going on? After doing all the things of ones daily life, where is the time for that?
