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Inside:The Life and Crimes of the Cia He's No INSIDE: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF THE CIA G HE’S NO MARTIN LUTHER KING G A FREE PRESS OR MINISTRY OF TRUTH ? G DROWNING IN A TIDE OF ECO-JUNK Cold Type The REGADG ER WRITING WORTH READING ISSUE 17 AUGUST 2007 RISE OF THE DOMES DAVE ZIRIN ON THE SCANDAL OF SPORTS STADIUM FUNDING ThCold e Type READER ISSUE 17 | AUGUST 2007 3. A FREE PRESS OR MINISTRY 37. JOHN PERKINS: JERK, OF TRUTH? CONMAN, SHILL By Paul Craig Roberts By Greg Palast 6. TRUTH SLIPS DOWN 40. A LESSON FOR THOSE UPPITY GIRLS THE MEMORY HOLE By Linda McQuaig By John Pilger 42. THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF THE CIA 10. COVER STORY – RISE OF THE DOMES By Chalmers Johnson By Dave Zirin 52. WHEN WILL YOU TEACH 13. THE MIDDLE EAST: A TRAP FOR FOOLS THIS LAD ENGLISH? By Uri Avnery By Hussein al-Alak 17. PALESTINE AT THE CROSSROADS 54. HE’S NO MARTIN LUTHER KING By Ronnie Kasrils By Ray McGovern 20. DROWNING IN A TIDE OF ECO-JUNK 58. NO WONDER THE BLOGGERS By George Monbiot ARE WINNING By Robert Fisk 23. WHY THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE IS SO SCARY 61. WE’RE LEAVING IRAQ (SORT OF) By Jean Pfaelzer By Norman Solomon 26. OPERATING ON MICHAEL MOORE 64. RECRUITING TRENCH LIBERALS By James Clay Fuller AND LEFT-NECKS By Joe Bageant 30. NEOCONS, DEMOCONS, THEOCONS, EXCONS & FUTURE CONS 66. SLOW MARCH TO A POLICE STATE By William Blum The Big Picture Editor: Tony Sutton ([email protected]) For a free subscription to The ColdType Reader, email Jools Sutton at [email protected] (type SUBSCRIBE in the subject line) 2 The READER | August 2007 PROPAGANDA & WAR 1 A FREE PRESS OR MINISTRY OF TRUTH? BY PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS n his novel 1984, George Orwell When the roundups, trials, and exe - Americans were portrayed a future time in which cutions failed to fix the problem, the assured that the explanations of recent events “die-hard” explanation disappeared. A once Saddam and earlier history are continually new explanation, with no continuity to Hussein and his Ichanged to meet Big Brother’s latest the old, took its place. relatives and purpose. Previous explanations disap - The new explanation was that Syria henchmen were pear down “the memory hole.” was allowing foreigners to cross its bor - rounded up, our Sound familiar? Any American who der into Iraq to commit jihad against troops would be pays attention can observe the identical the American troops. This explanation pelted with the phenomenon occurring in the US today. lasted until it became all too clear, de - promised Think about the Bush Regime’s spite the propaganda, that the “foreign flowers instead changing explanations for the failed US fighters” were remarkably well ac - of roadside occupation of Iraq. Shortly after Bush’s cepted by, and concealed within, the bombs May 2003 announcement of “mission Iraqi communities that were suffering accomplished,” the mission revealed it - all the collateral damage of the conflict. self to be very much unaccomplished. When it came time for the US to cre - Americans were told that the cause of ate an Iraqi government, it was evident the snafu was a small Sunni insurgency that it would be one dominated by of two or three thousand at the most Shi’ites. Then, for a limited time, it was inspired by “die-hard Baath party rem - permissible to recognize that the insur - nants.” Remember the propagandistic gency was popularly based in the Sun - deck of cards identifying the most nis. wanted down to the less wanted? As the insurgency evolved into what Americans were assured that once Sad - the Iraq Study Group described as a dam Hussein and his relatives and Sunni-Shi’ite civil war with US troops henchmen were rounded up, our troops unclear on which side they stood, the would be pelted with the promised Bush Regime and the captive media be - flowers instead of roadside bombs. gan blaming Al Qaeda for the escalat - August 2007 | The READER 3 PROPAGANDA & WAR 1 Cheney, Israel, ing violence. Americans were assured sources that Iran is arming both Iraqi and the neocons, by the Ministry of Truth that there was - insurgents and the Taliban in the rulers of n’t a civil war, just outsiders stirring up Afghanistan. the new conflict. This enabled Big Brother to Experts, both within the government Oceania, plan deny that there was a civil war and to and without, who have been made to attack Iran, revive fear of terrorist attacks in the US more attentive by the Bush Regime’s and so the and UK, the new Oceania. false charges of Iraqi weapons of mass insurgency The Al Qaeda explanation was soon destruction, have disputed the news re - in Iraq is now discarded into the memory hole. The ports. being blamed explanation implied that Oceania’s in - But the reports keep on coming. As I on Iran vasion of Iraq had greatly expanded write, the latest story is that the US the ranks and strength of Al Qaeda, military “discovered a field of rocket thus contradicting big Brother’s claim launchers near a US army base south of that his war in Iraq was making Ocea - Baghdad armed with 34 Iranian-made nians safe by stamping out terrorism. missiles.” Can you imagine? The insur - The Al Qaeda explanation had to de - gents went to the trouble of lugging part for another reason as well. Cheney, powerful missiles within striking dis - Israel, and the neocons, the rulers of tance of a US base and just left them the new Oceania, plan to attack Iran, there unfired to be discovered by the and so the insurgency in Iraq is now be - Americans. ing blamed on Iran. To further serve Cheney’s plan to at - tack Iran, the media report states: “Ear - Down the memory hole lier this month, US commanders The Ministry of Truth has accommo - stepped up the charges [against Iran], dated the latest explanation, just as it claiming that senior leaders of Iran’s spe - did all others before, without remarking cial forces and of the Lebanese Shiite on the funeral of the previous explana - Hezbollah militia have trained Iraqi tion. All of a sudden, a new explanation fighters and provided other support.” appears and is repeated until it, too, [US finds Iranian rockets aimed at Iraq goes down the memory hole. base, Agence France Presse, July 14,2007] The American and British media Notice that none of the explanations work the same way as the Ministry of fed to Americans over the years have Truth in Oceania. A day arrives when ever mentioned, even as a faint possibil - the “truth” no longer serves the em - ity, that the US invasion and occupation pire or hegemonic power or center of of Iraq might be the cause of the vio - moral purpose in the world, or for lence in Iraq. short, the regime. When that day ar - Allegedly, the US is a free and open rives, a new explanation appears and is country with a free press and a govern - repeated until it, too, is discarded down ment accountable to the people. Yet, the memory hole. the information fed to the American In recent weeks Americans have people is as thoroughly false as that fed been fed a series of reports from official to the citizens of Oceania by Big 4 The READER | August 2007 PROPAGANDA & WAR 1 Brother through the Ministry of Truth Weekly Standard, Fox “News,” and The entire in Orwell’s famous novel. Wall Street Journal editorial page. The corporate media In Orwell’s novel, despite the totali - entire corporate media is behaving as a is behaving as a tarian power of the government, noth - Ministry of Truth. CT Ministry of Truth ing happens to people as long as they accept the government’s intrusive mon - Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secre - itoring of their lives and do not become tary of the Treasury in the Reagan Ad - interested in truth or facts. In such a ministration. He is the author of Sup - world, truth and individuality pass out ply-Side Revolution: An Insider’s of human consciousness and become Account of Policymaking in Washing - unimportant. Citizens survive by ac - ton ; Alienation and the Soviet Econ - cepting Big Brother’s ever-changing re - omy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet ality. Economy ; and is the co-author with This is what the mainstream media Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny in the US and UK are enabling the new of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors Oceania to accomplish. It is pointless to and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the complain about a few Judith Millers Constitution in the Name of Justice . here and there at the New York Times, He may be contacted at or the obvious warmongers at the paulcraigroberts@ yahoo.com If you enjoy The ColdType Reader subscribe to future issues – it’s free! E-mail: [email protected] August 2007 | The READER 5 PROPAGANDA & WAR 2 TRUTH SLIPS DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE BY JOHN PILGER While Alan ne of the leaders of demon - with 11 Palestinian civilians killed by Johnston was strations in Gaza calling for the Israelis on the same day, Alan John - being held, the release of the BBC re - ston’s now legless champion slipped I was asked by porter Alan Johnston was a into what George Orwell in Nineteen the BBC World OPalestinian news cameraman, Imad Eighty-Four called the memory hole. Service if Ghanem. On 5 July, he was shot by Is - (It was Winston Smith’s job at the Min - I would say raeli soldiers as he filmed them invad - istry of Truth to make disappear all a few words of ing Gaza.
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