John Pilger | Why the Rise of Fascism Is Again the Issue

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  1. Pax Aeon

    Pax Aeon Well-Known Member

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    "Again and again, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine and elsewhere, state lies to the public, with the help of corporate media, have allowed the United States to wage war abroad as a means to control other nations and their natural resources.

    The recent 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a reminder of the great crime of fascism. Its Nazi iconography is embedded in our consciousness. Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, with war-making elites urging us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism......

    .....The responsibility of the rest of us is clear. It is to identify and expose the reckless lies of warmongers and never to collude with them. It is to reawaken the great popular movements that brought a fragile civilization to modern imperial states. Most important, it is to prevent the conquest of ourselves: our minds, our humanity, our self-respect. If we remain silent, victory over us is assured, and a holocaust beckons". -- Source
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    I'm perhaps one of only a few people that see's war in general, as a tool of commerce and capitalism run amok. While the author of this article leans to heavily upon seemingly cliché WWII imagery, his point is valid. American foreign policy reeks of fascism hidden behind the lies the corporate media spoon feeds the public. US hegemony has taken monumental steps in controlling worldwide wealth through it's military.

    Yellow journalism has never gone away but instead has gotten much, much worse. US multinational corporations with assets and increased business interests overseas are now the champions of war,owning not only the US media complex but our politicians as well. Dysfunctional Americans with short attention spans tune in their favorite MSM news source everyday and fill their tiny heads with the lies and hyperbole that spews from their cable TV's, without question.

    The article starts out with the neoliberal war in Libya, to the Serbian war in what used to be Yugoslavia, to Regan's backing the Islamic extremists fighting the supposedly big, bad Soviet Union in Afghanistan, the ISIS then finally to the Russian/Ukraine conflict...all influenced by lies the MSM which they cry the US military should be involved in. It all boils down to war monger as an official US policy.....which both sides of the Republicrat coin support.

    Every war since WWII, has been economic and profit motivated
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    "War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures"
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    John Pilger has been revealing the crimes of empire since the US invasion of Vietnam.
    Hopefully, a new generation will pay attention.

    "Since his early years as correspondent in the Vietnam War, Pilger has been a strong critic of American and British foreign policy, which he considers to be driven by an imperialist agenda. The practices of the mainstream media have also been a theme in his work.

    "His career as a documentary film maker began with The Quiet Mutiny (1970), made during one of his visits to Vietnam, and has continued with over fifty documentaries since then. Other works in this form include Year Zero (1979), about the aftermath of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, and Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1993).

    "Pilger has long criticised his native country's treatment of indigenous Australians and has made many documentary films on this subject including The Secret Country (1985) and Utopia (2013).

    "In the British print media, he has had a long association with the Daily Mirror, and wrote a regular column for the New Statesman magazine from 1991 to 2014."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger
     

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