The United States is planning what will be a catastrophic attack on Iran. For the Bush cabal, the attack will be a way of 聯buying time聰 for its disaster in Iraq. In announcing what he called a 聯surge聰 of US troops in Iraq, George W. Bush identified Iran as his real target. 聯We will interrupt the flow of support [to the insurgency in Iraq] from Iran and Syria聰, he said. 聯And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.聰
John Pilger
A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. 鈥淪ome 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, with no freedom of movement, no place to run and no space to hide鈥, wrote senior UN relief official Jan Egeland and Jan Eliasson, then Swedish foreign minister, in Le Figaro. They described people 鈥渓iving in a cage鈥, cut off by land, sea and air, with no reliable power and little water, and tortured by hunger and disease and incessant attacks by Israeli troops and planes.
The Australian writer Donald Horne meant the title of his celebrated book, The Lucky Country, as irony. 聯Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck聰, he lamented in 1964, describing much of the Australian elite as unfailingly unoriginal, race-obsessed and in thrall to imperial power and its wars.
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