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Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon i prefer this piece of cut and paste SK, by the enlightened and always enlightening John Pilger. Quote: |
Chávez is, of course, a threat, especially to the United States. Like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, who based their revolution on the English co-operative moment, and the moderate Allende in Chile, he offers the threat of an alternative way of developing a decent society: in other words, the threat of a good example in a continent where the majority of humanity has long suffered a Washington-designed peonage. In the US media in the 1980s, the "threat" of tiny Nicaragua was seriously debated until it was crushed. Venezuela is clearly being "softened up" for something similar. A US army publication, Doctrine for Asymmetric War against Venezuela, describes Chávez and the Bolivarian revolution as the "largest threat since the Soviet Union and Communism". When I said to Chávez that the US historically had had its way in Latin America, he replied: "Yes, and my assassination would come as no surprise. But the empire is in trouble, and the people of Venezuela will resist an attack. We ask only for the support of all true democrats."
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John Pilger has long been criticised for his criticisms of the mainstream media - moreso in his homeland of Australia, where the majority of media is owned by the same man who owns FOX News and other major world media outlets. Is little wonder that his voice is dimmed slightly?
The more I study world media, the more afraid I become for the future of our planet! Economics rules on every page and every news broadcast.
Just read between the lines!
