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John Pilger: Τι «αλλάξτε» στα μέσα της Αμερικής πραγματικά

Πέμπτη, 13η Νοεμβρίου 2008

Από John Pilger |

Η πρώτη επίσκεψή μου στο Τέξας ήταν το 1968, στην πέμπτη επέτειο της δολοφονίας του Προέδρου John F Kennedy στο Ντάλλας. Ι νότος αγελών, μετά από τη γραμμή πόλων τηλέγραφων στο μικρού χωριού Midlothian, όπου συνάντησα Penn Jones Jr, συντάκτης του καθρέφτη Midlothian. Εκτός από την προφορά και τις λεπτές μπότες του, όλα για Penn ήταν η αντίθεση του στερεοτύπου του Τέξας. Εκθέτοντας τους ρατσιστές του John Birch Society, ο Τύπος εκτύπωσής του ήταν επανειλημμένα. Εβδομάδα μετά από την εβδομάδα, συγκέντρωσε προσεκτικά τα στοιχεία ότι όλοι εκτός από κατεδάφισαν την επίσημη έκδοση της δολοφονίας Kennedy.

Αυτό ήταν δημοσιογραφία όπως ήταν προτού να εφευρεθεί η εταιρική δημοσιογραφία, προτού να συσταθούν οι πρώτες σχολές της δημοσιογραφίας και μια μυθολογία της φιλελεύθερης ουδετερότητας περιστράφηκε γύρω από εκείνους ο των οποίων «επαγγελματισμός» και «αντικειμενικότητα» έφερε η υποχρέωση να εξασφαλιστεί ότι οι ειδήσεις και η άποψη ήταν εν αρμονία με μια συναίνεση καθιερώσεων, ανεξάρτητα από την αλήθεια. Οι δημοσιογράφοι όπως Penn Jones, ανεξάρτητο από τη δύναμη, ακούραστος και το με αρχές, απεικονίζουν συχνά τις συνηθισμένες αμερικανικές τοποθετήσεις, οι οποίες έχουν προσαρμοστεί σπάνια στα στερεότυπα που προωθούνται από τα εταιρικά μέσα και στις δύο πλευρές του Ατλαντικού. Διαβάστε τα αμερικανικά όνειρα: Χαμένος και από στερεώνει masterly Terkel, που πέθανε η άλλη ημέρα, ή ανιχνεύει τις έρευνες που αποδίδουν unerringly τις διαφωτισμένες απόψεις σε μια πλειοψηφία που θεωρούν ότι «η κυβέρνηση πρέπει να φροντίσει για εκείνους που δεν μπορούν να φροντίσουν για τους» και είναι έτοιμοι να πληρώσουν τους υψηλότερους φόρους για την καθολική υγειονομική περίθαλψη, οι οποίοι υποστηρίζουν τον πυρηνικό αφοπλισμό και θέλουν τα στρατεύματά τους εκτός των χωρών άλλων ανθρώπων.

Επιστρέφοντας στο Τέξας, χτυπιέμαι πάλι από εκείνους έτσι αντίθετα από το στερεότυπο λευκών ρατσιστών, παρά το φορτίο μιας μορφής πλύσης εγκεφάλου που τοποθετείται στους περισσότερους Αμερικανούς από μια τρυφερή ηλικία: ότι δικές τους είναι η ανώτερη κοινωνία στην ιστορία του κόσμου, και όλα τα μέσα δικαιολογούνται, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της ανατροπής του άφθονου αίματος, στη διατήρηση εκείνης της ανωτερότητας.

Αυτό είναι το subtext της «ρητορικής» Barack Obama. Λέει ότι θέλει να ενισχύσει την αμερικανική στρατιωτική δύναμη και απειλεί να αναφλέξει έναν νέο πόλεμο στο Πακιστάν, που σκοτώνει ακόμα περισσότερους καφετής-ξεφλουδισμένους ανθρώπους. Αυτός θα φέρει τα δάκρυα, επίσης. Αντίθετα από εκείνους στη νύχτα εκλογής, αυτά τα άλλα δάκρυα θα είναι απαρατήρητα στο Σικάγο και το Λονδίνο. This is not to doubt the sincerity of much of the response to Obama’s election, which happened not because of the unction that has passed for news reporting from America since 4 November (e.g. “liberal Americans smiled and the world smiled with them”) but for the same reasons that millions of angry emails were sent to the White House and Congress when the “bailout” of Wall Street was revealed, and because most Americans are fed up with war.

Two years ago, this anti-war vote installed a Democratic majority in Congress, only to watch the Democrats hand over more money to George W Bush to continue his blood fest. For his part, the “anti-war” Obama never said the illegal invasion of Iraq was wrong, merely that it was a “mistake”. Thereafter, he voted in to give Bush what he wanted. Yes, Obama’s election is historic, a symbol of great change to many. But it is equally true that the American elite has grown adept at using the black middle and management class. The courageous Martin Luther King recognised this when he linked the human rights of black Americans with the human rights of the Vietnamese, then being slaughtered by a liberal Democratic administration. And he was shot. In striking contrast, a young black major serving in Vietnam, Colin Powell, was used to “investigate” and whitewash the infamous My Lai massacre. As Bush’s secretary of state, Powell was often described as a “liberal” and was considered ideal to lie to the United Nations about Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction. Condaleezza Rice, lauded as a successful black woman, has worked assiduously to deny the Palestinians justice.

Obama’s first two crucial appointments represent a denial of the wishes of his supporters on the principal issues on which they voted. The vice-president-elect, Joe Biden, is a proud warmaker and Zionist. Rahm Emanuel, who is to be the all-important White House chief of staff, is a fervent “neoliberal” devoted to the doctrine that led to the present economic collapse and impoverishment of millions. He is also an “Israel-first” Zionist who served in the Israeli army and opposes meaningful justice for the Palestinians ? an injustice that is at the root of Muslim people’s loathing of the United States and the spawning of jihadism.

No serious scrutiny of this is permitted within the histrionics of Obamamania, just as no serious scrutiny of the betrayal of the majority of black South Africans was permitted within the “Mandela moment”. This is especially marked in Britain, where America’s divine right to “lead” is important to elite British interests. The once respected Observer newspaper, which supported Bush’s war in Iraq, echoing his fabricated evidence, now announces, without evidence, that “America has restored the world’s faith in its ideals”. These “ideals”, which Obama will swear to uphold, have overseen, since 1945, the destruction of 50 governments, including democracies, and 30 popular liberation movements, causing the deaths of countless men, women and children.

None of this was uttered during the election campaign. Had it been allowed, there might even have been recognition that liberalism as a narrow, supremely arrogant, war-making ideology is destroying liberalism as a reality. Prior to Blair’s criminal warmaking, ideology was denied by him and his media mystics. “Blair can be a beacon to the world,” declared the Guardian in 1997. “[He is] turning leadership into an art form.”

Today, merely insert “Obama”. As for historic moments, there is another that has gone unreported but is well under way ? liberal democracy’s shift towards a corporate dictatorship, managed by people regardless of ethnicity, with the media as its clich?d fa?ade. “True democracy,” wrote Penn Jones Jr, the Texas truth-teller, “is constant vigilance: not thinking the way you’re meant to think and keeping your eyes wide open at all times.”

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