John Pilger has been speaking truth to power for 4 decades. A truly intrepid reporter. Thanks for posting this.
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> Welcome to Orwell's World 2010
> By John Pilger
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> December 30, 2009 - "Information Clearing House" -- In Nineteen
> Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose
> language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became
> truth. `Who controls the past', ran the Party slogan,
> `controls the future: who controls the present controls the
> past'."
>
> Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at
> the close of the decade, the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that
> peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that "extends
> well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan" to "disorderly regions and
> diffuse enemies". He called this "global security" and
> invited our gratitude. To the people of Afghanistan, which America has
> invaded and occupied, he said wittily: "We have no interest in
> occupying your country."
>
> In Oceania, truth and lies are indivisible. According to Obama, the
> American attack on Afghanistan in 2001 was authorised by the United
> Nations Security Council. There was no UN authority. He said the
> "the world" supported the invasion in the wake of 9/11 when, in
> truth, all but three of 37 countries surveyed by Gallup expressed
> overwhelming opposition. He said that America invaded Afghanistan
> "only after the Taliban refused to turn over [Osama] bin Laden".
> In 2001, the Taliban tried three times to hand over bin Laden for trial,
> reported Pakistan's military regime, and were ignored. Even
> Obama's mystification of 9/11 as justification for his war is false.
> More than two months before the Twin Towers were attacked, the Pakistani
> foreign minister, Niaz Naik, was told by the Bush administration that an
> American military assault would take place by mid-October. The Taliban
> regime in Kabul, which the Clinton administration had secretly
> supported, was no longer regarded as "stable" enough to ensure
> America's control over oil and gas pipelines to the Caspian Sea. It
> had to go.
>
> Obama's most audacious lie is that Afghanistan today is a "safe
> haven" for al-Qaeda's attacks on the West. His own national
> security adviser, General James Jones, said in October that there were
> "fewer than 100" al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. According to US
> intelligence, 90 per cent of the Taliban are hardly Taliban at all, but
> "a tribal localised insurgency [who] see themselves as opposing the
> US because it is an occupying power". The war is a fraud. Only the
> terminally gormless remain true to the Obama brand of "world
> peace".
>
> Beneath the surface, however, there is serious purpose. Under the
> disturbing General Stanley McCrystal, who gained distinction for his
> assassination squads in Iraq, the occupation of one of the most
> impoverished countries is a model for those "disorderly regions"
> of the world still beyond Oceania's reach. This is known as COIN, or
> counter-insurgency network, which draws together the military, aid
> organisations, psychologists, anthropologists, the media and public
> relations hirelings. Covered in jargon about winning hearts and minds,
> its aim is to pit one ethnic group against another and incite civil war:
> Tajiks and Uzbecks against Pashtuns.
>
> The Americans did this in Iraq and destroyed a multi-ethnic society.
> They bribed and built walls between communities who had once
> inter-married, ethnically cleansing the Sunni and driving millions out
> of the country. The embedded media reported this as "peace", and
> American academics bought by Washington and "security experts"
> briefed by the Pentagon appeared on the BBC to spread the good news. As
> in Nineteen Eighty-Four, the opposite was true.
>
> Something similar is planned for Afghanistan. People are to be forced
> into "target areas" controlled by warlords bankrolled by the
> Americans and the opium trade. That these warlords are infamous for
> their barbarism is irrelevant. "We can live with that," a
> Clinton-era diplomat said of the persecution of women in a
> "stable" Taliban-run Afghanistan. Favoured western relief
> agencies, engineers and agricultural specialists will attend to the
> "humanitarian crisis" and so "secure" the subjugated
> tribal lands.
>
> That is the theory. It worked after a fashion in Yugoslavia where the
> ethnic-sectarian partition wiped out a once peaceful society, but it
> failed in Vietnam where the CIA's "strategic hamlet program"
> was designed to corral and divide the southern population and so defeat
> the Viet Cong -- the Americans' catch-all term for the resistance,
> similar to "Taliban".
>
> Behind much of this are the Israelis, who have long advised the
> Americans in both the Iraq and Afghanistan adventures. Ethnic-cleansing,
> wall-building, checkpoints, collective punishment and constant
> surveillance – these are claimed as Israeli innovations that have
> succeeded in stealing most of Palestine from its native people. And yet
> for all their suffering, the Palestinians have not been divided
> irrevocably and they endure as a nation against all odds.
>
> The most telling forerunners of the Obama Plan, which the Nobel Peace
> Prize winner and his strange general and his PR men prefer we forget,
> are those that failed in Afghanistan itself. The British in the 19th
> century and the Soviets in the 20th century attempted to conquer that
> wild country by ethnic cleansing and were seen off, though after
> terrible bloodshed. Imperial cemeteries are their memorials. People
> power, sometimes baffling, often heroic, remains the seed beneath the
> snow, and invaders fear it.
> "It was curious," wrote Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, "to
> think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as
> well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same,
> everywhere, all over the world … people ignorant of one
> another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet
> almost exactly the same people who … were storing up in their hearts
> and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the
> world."
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