June 01, 2003
Today a post by Bob Harris in thismodernworld.com links to a story in the Independent by Glen Rangwala (lecturer in politics at Newnham College, Cambridge ), in which he shows how the UK and the US manipulated UN reports - and conjured an anthrax dump from thin air.
Well, we aren’t surprised are we?
And not at all a surprise is Harris' own reflection about why most people would be very surprised if they heard the truth. He says:
The folks in the suburb where I grew up -- good, honest people I truly care about -- read their paper every single day, and are almost assuredly under the illusion that they're informing themselves about the world. Quite plainly the opposite. I'll say it again: What they're consuming is actually negative information, worse than illiterate blankness in that it provides both a false worldview and confidence in it. Sheer ignorance and an open mind would seem preferable.
In other words, when it comes to national news, I'm almost convinced my hometown would be better off reading blank sheets of paper. That way, when truth eventually surfaces, it wouldn't have to fight six months of falsehoods to be understood.
Even though bits of the truth are slowly surfacing in the mainstream media, I don’t see the kinds of folks like the ones in Harris' home town (and there are millions of 'em, including my mom) paying much attention. The Bushite propapanda has taken root in their malleable minds, and it doesn't seem as though there's any room left for the truth.
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Drop and give me 62,400 on 02 Jun 2003
Bob's words here warrant being shouted from the rooftops, IMO, so here they are, repeated from my rooftop: The folks in the suburb where I grew up -- good, honest people I truly care about -- read their paper every single day, and are almost assuredly ...
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Elayne Riggs on 08 Jun 2003
Although I do believe Rangwala should be financially compensated for all his invaluable information, I don't want to pay the Guardian which may or may not pay him. One can now read the entire article at
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0601-08.htm