Re Hubris: A Timely Message From George Orwell

[Turborama]

[putitinD]

1. that needs to go viral

[TDale313]

2. +1

[Turborama]

4. If you have an FB account, you can share it from here...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=229123460531506&set=a.172407089536477.32366.105513649559155&type=1&ref=nf

[BrotherIvan]

3. So much TRUTH

[JDPriestly]

5. Certainly true of the Iraq War.

And now the rich don't want to pay for it even though the rest of us can't.

I wonder who is profiting from all those oil contracts. Does anyone know?

[leveymg]

6. KNR for the wisdom of Mr. Eric Blair

An extraordinary man, and one of the English language's greatest and most fearless tellers of truth.

[Turborama]

7. .

:kick:

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. The continuation is applicable to Iraq too:

In one of his letters Orwell mentions that he had written an anti-war pamphlet. This has not been found, but it is not difficult to work out from his other letters and articles what it would have said. Its basic premise would have been what Orwell set out in book review he did in August 1937:

“1. That war against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

2. That every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac (’militarist’ Germany in 1914, ’Fascist’ Germany next year or the year after).

The essential job is to get people to recognize war propaganda when they see it, especially when it is disguised as peace propaganda”.

http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1990s/1997/no-1113-may-1997/george-orwell-spain-and-anti-fascism

[colsohlibgal]

9. +1000

I still get angry when I think of the war profiteering of Cheney and others - and all the dead and maimed bodies. Blood money.