If Americans and Canadians really knew the truth of this resource-driven war, and its carefully concealed cost, they would end it very quickly.Perhaps. But punditman is not so sure that people don't already know they are being lied to but not enough people really care, or not enough care enough to do something about it, or not enough feel there is any use in trying because they feel government doesn't listen, or not enough...
by Eric Margolis
George Orwell wrote: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
A true journalist's job is to expose government wrongdoing and propaganda, skewer hypocrites, and speak for those with no voice. And wage war against mankind's two worst scourges: Nationalism and religious bigotry. Not to lick the boots of government.
I've always felt kinship for free thinkers, rebels, and heretics.
That's why I am drawn to the plight of Pte. Bradley Manning who apparently believed Ernest Hemingway's dictum: "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
The 22-year-old U.S. Army intelligence analyst caused a worldwide furor by releasing to WikiLeaks secret military logs that exposed ugly truths about the brutal conflict in Afghanistan, including widespread killing of civilians.
To again quote Orwell: "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
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