Now it Can be Told...
Pilger reveals the shocking truth about who the real terrorists are.
Maybe you'd better sit down. Prepare yourself for a shock. It turns out, it's the Americans.
All the conventional bases are covered with the customary hysterical rhetoric we've all grown to know and love: the war on "terrorism" = the new Red Scare, innocent blood for oil/and or defence contracts, the world's richest country attacks the world's poorest country, haves and havenots, Mark Herold, El bloody Salvador, Pinochet, 1979, etc. He even manages to quote "1984" (on which, see the justly praised insight of Bjorn Staerk concerning the two varieties of Orwell-quoter.)
I'm sure some sharp blogger has already taken this apart piece by piece and done a much better job that I ever could. I've just got one question: how many times can this guy write this identical article and still get paid for it?
My theory is that he just changes the date header, intro, and conclusion, and hopes no one notices. This particular intro concerns the State of the Union address and the not particularly surprising announcement of new defense-spending, and it contains the following amusing line:
Of all the extraordinary news since September 11, this is the most alarming. It is time to break our silence.