Iraq Has Been Successfully Demonized

Who Are These Evil Ones? In 1984, The Evil One Was Called Goldstein. Orwell Was Writing A Grim Parody. But These People Running The United States Mean What They Say. If I Were A Teacher, I Would Recommend That All My Students Very Hurriedly Read Most Of Orwell's Books, Especially 1984 And Animal Farm, Because Then They'd Begin To Understand The World We Live In.

In Western Australia, Minerals Are Being Dug Up From Aboriginal Land And Shipped To China For A Profit Of A Billion Dollars A Week. In This, The Richest, 'booming' State, The Prisons Bulge With Stricken Aboriginal People, Including Juveniles Whose Mothers Stand At The Prison Gates, Pleading For Their Release. The Incarceration Of Black Australians Here Is Eight Times That Of Black South Africans During The Last Decade Of Apartheid.

British Establishment Uses "the Royal We," As In, "we Think This." You Hear A Lot Of That These Days. It Erroneously Suggests That Those Who Are Making The Decisions To Bomb Countries, To Devastate Economies, To Take Part In Acts Of International Piracy Involve All Of Us.

Many Journalists Now Are No More Than Channelers And Echoers Of What Orwell Called The Official Truth. They Simply Cipher And Transmit Lies. It Really Grieves Me That So Many Of My Fellow Journalists Can Be So Manipulated That They Become Really What The French Describe As Functionaires, Functionaries, Not Journalists.

The Impact Of The Human Tragedies I've Reported On Is That, More Often Than Not, I'll Be Angry. I Want To Know Why Is This Child Dying? These Are Not Acts Of God; They're Results Of Respectable Politicians' Decisions.