Totalitarianism, Genocide and the Court of Jesters

Last news from Iraq

Helicopters and warplanes bombed two villages near Ramadi in western Iraq on Sunday, killing about 70 people, the US military says. The military said all the dead were militants, although eyewitnesses are quoted saying that many were civilians. (BBC News)

US warplanes and helicopters bombed two villages near the Iraq city of Ramadi, killing an estimated 70 militants, the military said today. But witnesses said at least 39 were civilians. (AP)

Now, stop! Think of the big picture:

First Gulf war; UN (which is to say USA+UK) Sanctions; USA & UK Illegal Bombings of the (illegal and invented) No Fly Zones; Second Gulf War and Occupation...

How many millions of people have been killed in all this? Do you know? If you don't, why? Why aren't these millions of children, women, innocent Iraqi civilians on the front pages of our newspapers? Why don't they deserve prime time on TV? How is it possible to hide millions of dead in our age of information?

Many millions of innocent Iraqi civilians have been murdered by the US and UK Governments, with our tax money and in our name. The corporate media did their job: working for their masters and controlling the public opinion.

Totalitarianism has never been so easy in human history. Propaganda works!

Capitalism, this cancer that affects all the aspects of our lives as a metastasis, has weakened our spirit, reduced our ability to think, to act and react and makes us live in chains.

We live in one-ideology societies, and those who don’t agree and criticize the state religion are excommunicated and ridiculed by those who control the media and the propaganda system. Intellectuals, academics, experts, writers, journalists: a crowded court of modern jesters.

But it doesn’t have to be this way…