Re: FW: Page 26 of third rate newspaper

[Leigh Meyers <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Does the front page of the NY Daily News still look like a TV screen?
Haven't seen a print copy for years.

That 'good reporter' at a 'third rate newspaper' said:

"The President presumably would have us all believe that if Iraq had the
world's second-largest supply of bananas instead of petroleum, American
troops would still be there. "

This is ALMOST a plagarism of something Robert Fisk said early last year 
in an interview with adbusters, but perhaps American new reporting is 
ALL boilerplate, and the 'good reporters' just mask it more thoroughly.

<...>
AB: Why has the US invaded Iraq? Is it for oil?

RF: Well, if the national product of Iraq was asparagus, I donât think 
weâd be there, would we?

So oil is part of it. But itâs also about power. Last year I was on 
Highway 8 investigating the murder of a Red Cross worker. As I was 
talking to an Iraqi family, the road started to vibrate and we could see 
this huge infantry division coming towards us. Apache helicopters 
hovered overhead a convoy of m1a1 Abrams tanks, armored vehicles, lorry 
after lorry with concrete and thousands and thousands of troops, all 
wearing shades, rifles pointing out the side like porcupines. I sat down 
on the side of the road in the muck with this family and tried to 
understand what it meant. Four and a half, five hours later, the convoy 
was still passing by.

It dawned on me that 2,000 years ago, a little to the west, I would have 
been sitting on the road watching a Roman legion pass, feeling the 
vibrations of the centurionsâ feet. And I realized that if you are the 
only superpower, like America, you need to project power. Theyâre 
essentially saying, âWe will march over the lands of Sumeria and 
Mesopotamia, and we will go there because we can.â
<...>
http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/63/We_Must_Stop_Sending_Our_Soldiers_to_Other_Peoples_Countries.html


Also, in the same issue (#63): Is it Fascism Yet?
<...>
In a parking lot in suburban Philadelphia, a mother buckles her child 
into the car seat. She puts the groceries in the back of the station 
wagon, and as she pulls the door down I see, on a piece of paper taped 
on the window the question âIs it fascism yet?â

My brother calls and in the middle of the phone conversation says into 
the silence âI know how people felt in Germany in the 1930s.â It is not 
fascism yet. We are waiting, as winter comes, to see if the shadows 
lengthen and the light fails.

The neoconservatives brought to power in the administration of the 
lesser George Bush have brought us to this place in historyâs shadow. 
They offer us a celebratory patriotism, full of flags and ribbons, where 
questions and dissent are silenced, to support our president, support 
the troops. They promise to deliver us from the decadence of artists and 
intellectuals. They argue for the return of moral standards to the 
public square and women to the kitchen. They offer a lighter, faster 
military, able to project power in lightning strikes, and move rapidly 
to the next target. They commit us to a war where the enemies are 
unnamed and ever-changing, and the prospects of peace distant and still 
receding. They console us for war-time deaths and the absent prospect of 
victory or peace with the claim that war increases âmoral seriousness.â

They offer a stronger executive, a more imperial president.
<...>
http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/63/Is_it_Fascism_Yet.html


Leigh


Shane Mage wrote:
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