Dear friends, A few thoughts on shoes and propaganda.
Please, help circulating the following articles; forward, post, publish, etc. Thank you very much and sorry if you've already received this e-mail or some of these articles below in other emails. Best wishes, Gabriele Zamparini Propaganda in the Time of Obama Dozens of progressive and alternative websites have re-published Patrick Cockburn's appalling article originally appeared in CounterPunch a few days ago. As Jonathan Steele's article in the Guardian a few weeks ago, this Cockburn's article is so extreme one wonders if those alternative websites have become alternative to reality. After selling Obama as the Anti-Bush and the Man of Change, the lib-left intelligentsia is now at work to depict the new planned phase of the imperial project in the Middle East and beyond as a debacle. We are asked to believe that Corporate America is retreating from Iraq or - to use Cockburn's words - that the U.S.'s "moment in Iraq is coming to an end". Continued http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/12/propaganda-in-time-of-obama.htm *** Shoes for all! When Muntazer al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist, shouted, "It is the farewell kiss, you dog" to Bush and threw him his shoes during a news conference in Baghdad, the curtain of hypocrisy fell and the ugly emperor stood naked in front of the world. Those shoes however were not aimed only to a man who should be - by his own standards - hanged, together with his entire junta of mass murderers; the Iraqi hero hit to the face all those responsible for the Iraq genocide and its ongoing denial; an endless army of politicians, diplomats, generals, businessmen, journalists, intellectuals and pimps who've helped to carry out the crime of the century. Shoes for all! Continued http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/12/shoes-for-all.htm *** Suddenly, two shoes A few days ago, writing about the Status of Force Agreement (SOFA) between the US and the Iraqi "government", Jonathan Steele wrote in the Guardian: "The deal gives Iraq's national resistance almost everything it fought for (...) From the American point of view, the main thing the pact does is to allow the US to withdraw with dignity. No hasty Vietnam-style humiliation, but an orderly retreat from an adventure which was illegal, unnecessary, and a disaster from the moment of conception. Like most Iraqis, I am content with that." The world could see how content Iraqis and Iraq's national resistance are when Muntazer al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist, shouted, "This is the farewell kiss you dog... this is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq" and threw at him his shoes during a news conference in Baghdad. Continued http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/12/suddenly-two-shoes.htm *** Steele on the Moon Jonathan Steele from the Guardian wrote yesterday an article (*) on Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Bush. I had sent him an e-mail earlier yesterday, asking to write about it (**) but that was of course not the reason Steele wrote his piece, or at least so I hope; I wouldn't like to be the one responsible for this other charade of journalism. Jonathan Steele writes: "The Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, has condemned Zaidi's action as an insult to a foreign guest, but Maliki - who, of course, has no influence over Iraqi's [sic] independent prosecution service - must know that a harsh sentence will only damage his own new-found reputation as the nationalist who managed to get Bush to agree to a withdrawal timetable." We all know Iraq's "independent prosecution service", we have seen it on TV two years ago when the last president of Iraq was lynched, of course, independently. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the United Nations have all written long reports on Iraq's "independent prosecution service" but Steele seems to be on the Moon. And Maliki's "new-found reputation"? But this is nothing. Continued http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2008/12/steele-on-moon.htm (*) Gabriele Zamparini is a writer, filmmaker and activist at http://thecatsdream.com ======= S1000+ ======= --- On Wed, 12/17/08, Neil van der Linden <[email protected]> wrote: --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
