Pilger: "Remember that when you next take to the streets in your hundreds of thousands, as you must"

[Ghost Dog]

What the US, British and French hope to achieve is the opposite of a people’s liberation. In undermining efforts Libya’s genuine democrats and nationalists to free their country from both a dictator and those corrupted by foreign demands, the sound and fury from Washington, London and Paris has succeeded in dimming the memory of January’s days of hope in Tunis and Cairo and distracted many, who had taken heart, from the task of ensuring that their gains are not stolen quietly. On 23 March, the US-backed Egyptian military issued a decree barring all strikes and protests. This was barely reported in the west. With Gaddafi now the accredited demon, Israel, the real canker, can continue its wholesale land theft and expulsions. Facebook has come under Zionist pressure to remove a page calling for a full scale Palestinian uprising - a “Third Intifada” - on 15 May.

None of this should surprise. History suggests nothing less than the kind of machination revealed by two senior diplomats at the United Nations, who spoke to the Asia Times. Demanding to know why the UN never ordered a fact-finding mission to Libya instead of an attack, they were told that a deal had been done between the White House and Saudi Arabia. A US “coalition” would “take out” the recalcitrant Gaddafi if the Saudis put down the popular uprising in Bahrain. The latter has been accomplished, and the bloodied King of Bahrain will be a guest at the Royal Wedding in London.

The embodiment of this reaction is David Cameron, whose only real job has been as PR man to the television industry’s asset stripper, Michael Green. Cameron was in the Gulf selling arms to the British-invented tyrannies when people rose up against Yemen’s Abdullah Saleh; on 18 March, Saleh’s regime murdered 52 demonstrators. Cameron said nothing of value. Yemen is “one of ours”, as the British Foreign Office likes to say. In February, Cameron revealed himself in an attack on what he called “state multi-culturalism” - the code for Muslims. He said, “We need a lot less of the past tolerance of recent years.” He was applauded by Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s fascist National Front. “It is exactly this kind of statement that has barred us from public life for 30 years,” she told the Financial Times. “I can only congratulate him.”

At its most rapacious, the British empire produced David Camerons in job lots. Unlike many of the Victorian “civilisers”, today’s sedentary Westminster warriors - throw in William Hague, Liam Fox and the treacherous Nick Clegg - have never been touched by the suffering and bloodshed which, at remove in culture and distance, are the consequences of their utterances and actions. With their faintly trivial, always contemptuous air, they are cowards abroad, as they are at home. War and racism and the destruction of Britain’s hard-won social democracy are their gift. Remember that when you next take to the streets in your hundreds of thousands, as you must.

/... http://www.johnpilger.com/articles/david-cameron-s-gift-of-war-and-racism-to-them-and-us

[Gravel Democrat]

1. Before John Pilger is thrown under the bus...

"...Pilger has received human rights and journalism awards, including the Richard Dimbleby Award for factual reporting at the 1990 BAFTA Awards, as well as honorary doctorates. He was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize at a ceremony at the Sydney Opera House in November 2009. The jury’s citation reads as follows: "For work as an author, film-maker and journalist as well as for courage as a foreign and war correspondent in enabling the voices of the powerless to be heard. For commitment to peace with justice by exposing and holding governments to account for human rights abuses and for fearless challenges to censorship in any form."<23>..."

Awards include:

Descriptive Writer of the Year (1966)
Reporter of the Year (1967)
Journalist of the Year (1967)
International Reporter of the Year (1970)
News Reporter of the Year (1974)
Campaigning Journalist of the Year (1977)
Journalist of the Year(1979)
UN Media Peace Prize, Australia (1979 – 80)
UN Media Peace Prize and Gold Medal, Australia (1980 – 81)
TV Times Readers' Award (1979)
United Kingdom Academy Award (1990)
The George Foster Peabody Award, USA (1990)
American Television Academy Award ('Emmy') (1991)
British Academy of Film and Television Arts – The Richard Dimbleby Award (1991)
Reporters Sans Frontiers Award, France (1990)
International de Television Geneve Award (1995)
The Monismanien Prize, Sweden (2001)
The Sophie Prize for Human Rights, Norway (2003)
EMMA Media Personality of the Year (2003)
Royal Television Society – Best British Documentary for Stealing a Nation (2004)
One World Media Awards - TV Documentary Award for his ITV1 film The War on Democracy, on the role of Washington in Latin American politics. (2008)<24>
Sydney Peace Prize, Australia (2009)<25>

Honorary degrees and academic appointments:

Hon. D. Litt. (Staffordshire)
D. Phil. (Dublin City)
D. Arts (Oxford Brooks and Kingston)
D. Arts (University of Lincoln)
D. Arts (Rhodes University, South Africa)
Hon. LL.D. (St Andrews)
DUniv (Open University, UK)
Edward Wilson Fellow, Deakin University (Australia)
Visiting Professor, Cornell University, USA


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

[Mnemosyne]

2. K&R n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Wow. Well phrased.

Thanks for posting.

edited to add: and here are the fingerprints of Brzezinski:

"....run by the US Africa Command, which was set up in 2007 to secure the continent’s lucrative natural resources
from Arica’s impoverished people and the rapidly spreading commercial influence of China.
Libya, along with Angola and Nigeria, is China’s principal source of oil. As American, British and French planes currently incinerate both “bad” and “good” Libyans, the evacuation of 30,000 Chinese workers is under way, perhaps permanently".

The exact moves of our international policy is right out of Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard.
remember he was Obama's Foreign Policy Advisor, and still lurks behind the scenes.

[L0oniX]

4. K & R

[Fuddnik]

5. Kick and Rec!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. Wow! Amazing credentials...I wouldnt tend to doubt him! n/t

[Judi Lynn]

7. So good. Thanks for posting Mr. Pilger. No one can outdo his work.

Regret seeing this article too late to recommend.