There Is No War On

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.

Many Journalists Become Very Defensive When You Suggest To Them That They Are Anything But Impartial And Objective. The Problem With Those Words "impartiality" And "objectivity" Is That They Have Lost Their Dictionary Meaning. They've Been Taken Over. "impartiality" And "objectivity" Now Mean The Establishment Point Of View.

When Governments And Other Vested Interests Attack Me Personally I Usually Regard It As A Vindication, Otherwise They Would Use Facts. That's Why I Believe In The Wonderful Claud Cockburn Dictum, 'never Believe Anything Until It Is Officially Denied.' It Has Certainly Been My Experience.

Classic Nineteenth Century European Imperialists Believed They Were Literally On A Mission. I Don't Believe That The Imperialists These Days Have That Same Sense Of Public Service. They Are Simply Pirates. Yes, There Are Fundamentalists, Christian Fundamentalists, Who Appear To Be In Charge Of The White House At The Moment, But They Are Very Different From The Christian Gentlemen Who Ran The British Empire And Believed They Were Doing Good Works Around The World. These Days It's About Naked Power.

Bill Clinton Kept Funding Star Wars. He Took The Biggest Military Budget To Congress In History. He Routinely Bombed Iraq, And He Kept The Barbaric Sanctions In Place. He's Really Played His Part. The George W. Bush Gang Has Taken It Just A Little Further.