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16 December 2006 |
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What goes on - 2
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- By Daan de Wit From another production by Channel 4, it becomes clear what you might have already figured out on your own by reading snippets of information here and there: Iraq was bad, but Afghanistan is not much better. The Taliban are being fought on the basis of what might be at best called flimsy: Not that they are nice people, but back then they were willing to hand over Bin Laden - just like Sudan before them - they were sponsored by the U.S. in the months prior to 9/11 with millions of dollars, but are now being shot at by U.S. and Dutch troops. At the same time the West is being friendly with Islam Karimov, the leader of Uzbekistan, a country in which dissident voices are being muted by torture, with the help of techniques such as the use of hammers and boiling people. Then again, there's nothing new about that when you consider for instance Somoza, Noriega, Pinochet, Suharto and Fujimori. Channel 4 on Afhanistan: '[...] western intervention has produced a mafia-style state'. A state again known for being the worlds opium supplier (unlike when the Taliban reigned). More critical news can be found in another mainstream news outlet, The Washington Post, which reports on the attempts of Italy to try 26 CIA agents for abducting a man from the streets of Milan to in turn be tortured in Egypt (see the DeepJournal series on the U.S. ordered torture). On the subject of torture, nobody less than Kofi Annan makes headlines around the world: In farewell, Annan scolds Bush administration - U.N. chief warns U.S. not to forget democratic ideals in war on terrorism. What is going on? Former Prime Minister of Italy, Sylvio Berlusconi, challenges the election results that made him the former prime minister. NRC Handelsblad writes that this challenge may be the sword he might fall onto himself, among other reasons because two recent publications show that it was Berlusconi's own party, Forza Italia, that has committed fraud. It was also the NRC that some years ago published a lengthy article in Dutch entitled The illusion of democracy. Twenty Dutch professors were interviewed for the article. The overall conclusion is that The Netherlands is not a democracy. It is a revealing article, touching upon the very foundation of our society. An eye-opener on a greater scale was the unfolding soap opera of the unfindable weapons of mass destruction. DeepJournal predicted the war and the WMD's not being there, wrote about the illegality of the war, described the clandestine PR operations and the fear mongering that made them possible, and reported on the attempts to cover up those facts. The lies about the weapons of mass destruction and the suffering that resulted opened up many eyes, through dead and wounded GI's, tortured Afghanis and Iraqis, and the growing chaos in Iraq. It even opened the eyes of Christian voters in the U.S., who learned not to judge the book by the cover alone.
What is going on?
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