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              John Pilger: Wat in de Middelen van Amerika werkelijk „verander“
Donderdag, 13 November, 2008 Door John Pilger | Mijn eerste bezoek aan Texas was in 1968, op de vijfde verjaardag van de moord van voorzitter John F Kennedy in Dallas. Ik dreef zuiden, na de lijn van telegraafpolen aan de kleine stad van Midlothian, waar ik Penn Jones Jr, redacteur van de Spiegel Midlothian ontmoette. Behalve zijn drawl en fijne laarzen, was alles over Penn de antithese van de stereotype van Texas. Hebben blootgesteldd de racisten van John Birch Society, was zijn drukpers herhaaldelijk firebombed geweest. Week na week, assembleerde hij nauwgezet bewijsmateriaal dat alles behalve de officiële versie van de moord van Kennedy vernietigden. Dit was journalistiek aangezien het alvorens de collectieve journalistiek werd uitgevonden, alvorens de eerste scholen van journalistiek werden opgericht en een mythologie van liberale neutraliteit werd gesponnen rond die was geweest waarvan „professionalisme“ en „objectiviteit“ unspoken verplichting droeg om dat het nieuws en het advies in overeenstemming met een ondernemingsconsensus waren, ongeacht de waarheid ervoor te zorgen. De journalisten zoals Penn onafhankelijk van beklede macht, indefatigable en principiele Jones, wijzen vaak op gewone Amerikaanse houdingen, die zelden in overeenstemming zijn geweest met de stereotypen die door de collectieve media aan beide kanten van de Atlantische Oceaan worden bevorderd. Lees Amerikaanse Dromen: Verloren en Gevonden door beslaat meesterlijk Terkel, die de andere dag stierf, of tasten de onderzoeken af die unerringly geïnformeerdeg meningen aan een meerderheid toeschrijven die geloven dat de „overheid voor zij zou moeten geven die voor zich“ niet kunnen geven en bereid zijn om hogere belastingen voor universele gezondheidszorg te betalen, die kernontwapening steunen en hun troepen uit de landen van andere mensen willen. Terugkerend aan Texas, word ik geslagen opnieuw door die zo in tegenstelling tot de redneckstereotype, ondanks de last van een vorm van brainwashing die op de meeste Amerikanen van een tedere leeftijd wordt geplaatst: dat theirs de meest superieure maatschappij in de geschiedenis van de wereld zijn, en alle middelen, met inbegrip van het morsen van overvloedig bloed, in het handhaven van die superioriteit gerechtvaardigd zijn. Dat is subtext van de „retorica“ van Barack Obama. Hij zegt hij de militaire macht van de V.S. wil opbouwen; en hij dreigt om een nieuwe oorlog in Pakistan aan te steken, dat nog meer bruin-gevilde mensen doodt. Dat zal scheuren, ook brengen. In tegenstelling tot die op verkiezingsnacht, zullen deze andere scheuren in Chicago en Londen unseen zijn. 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 clichéd façade. “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.” Have Your Say: John Pilger: What “Change” In America Really Means Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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