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The veteran journalist and documentary maker, John Pilger, once again is giving his account on the dangers that people are facing today as the new imperialist states, United States and Britain, are working hard on manipulating media around the globe to hide their real intentions for advocating wars and occupation.
On his recent article entitled Blood and Money in New Statesman to be published on Monday 07 November 2006, he says, "The promoters of an extreme form of capitalism known as neo liberalism, the supercult responsible for the greatest inequalities in history, are described as 'reformers' and 'revolutionaries'.
He continues, "The noble words 'freedom' and 'liberty' now refer to the divine right of this extremism to 'prevail', the jargon for dominate and control. This vocabulary, which contaminates the news and the pronouncements of the state and its bureaucracy, is from the same lexicon as Arbeit macht frei - 'Work makes you free' - the words over the gates at Auschwitz."
In another section he writes: British state terrorism in Iraq has cost more than £7bn. The real cost of Trident may be $76bn. Now it is more urgent than ever to raise our voices against Blair's mutant liberalism.
Pilger gives a heavy weight on the public morality and adds that, "Those who have peeled back the facades of the Blair and Bush gangs ought not to be des pondent."
He argues that, "the inspiring demonstration on 15 February 2003 may not have stopped an invasion, but the same universal power of public morality has, I believe, stalled attacks on Iran and North Korea, probably with 'tactical' nuclear weapons."
He adds that this moral force is undoubtedly stirring again all over the world, including the United States, and is feared by those who would contrive an "endless war".
Pilger concludes that, if he has learned nothing else from witnessing numerous bloody contrivances, it is never to underestimate the stamina of rampant, rapacious empire and the dishonesty of its "humanitarian interventions" and emphasises that, "Millions of us, who are the majority, need to raise our voices again, more urgently now than ever."
>>> Continued@ New Statesman
