During My Lifetime, America Has

Orwell Is Almost Our Litmus Test. Some Of His Satirical Writing Looks Like Reality These Days. When You Have Someone Like Cheney Who Talks About "endless War" Or War That Might Last Fifty Years, He Could Be Big Brother. You Have Bush Incessantly Going On About The Evil Ones.

If I Were A Teacher, I Would Recommend That All My Students Very Hurriedly Read Most Of Orwell's Books, Especially 1984 And Animal Farm, Because Then They'd Begin To Understand The World We Live In.

Iraq Has Been Successfully Demonized As If Everybody Who Lives There Is Saddam Hussein. In The Build-up To This Attack On Iraq, Journalists Have Almost Universally Excluded The Prospect Of Civilian Deaths, The Numbers Of People Who Would Die, Because Those People Don't Matter.

It's Only When Journalists Understand The Role They Play In This Propaganda, It's Only When They Realize They Can't Be Both Independent, Honest Journalists And Agents Of Power, That Things Will Begin To Change.

An Elite Group Of Less Than A Billion People Now Take More Than 80 Per Cent Of The World's Wealth.