Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:25:10 +0800 Subject: The ultimate big lie--McMurtry address >From: "Brian Jenkins" <•••@••.•••> > >[Please circulate widely; with apols for any crossposting.] > >McMurtry, J -- Why is there a war in Afghanistan? >http://scienceforpeace.sa.utoronto.ca/Special_Activities/McMurtry_Page.html > >Uneasy suspicions that the new 'permanent war' may be an offspring of US >petroleum and other corporate interests have been articulated in >devastating language by the (Toronto) University of Guelph's Prof John >McMurtry, whose blunt analysis laid bare the MAI in 1997 (see at >http://mai.flora.org/forum/2084 ). > >Here is a small excerpt from the war critique, delivered in a Peace forum >address on 9 December: > >"The permanent war against "terrorists" of the Third World is the cap of a >continuous and historically unprecedented financial deregulation of markets >and haemorrhages of transnationally mobile capital in and out of nations >leading to meltdowns from Brazil and Mexico to Russia and >Asia.--The pace of "re-engineerings" of societies' economic bases has been >dizzying, as all totalitarian movements require to keep destabilising >expectation. > >"Within a decade, the world has been made to serve the only legitimate >value-set now permissible in public discourse: "private investor value", a >condition overtly celebrated as "the brutal global competition to survive". > >"The most notorious characteristic of totalitarianism is "the big lie" - a >pervasive overriding of the distinction between fact and fiction by >saturating mass media falsehoods. In the familiar forms of totalitarianism, >"the big lie" occurs in a moving, ad hoc form - typically targeting an >internal group for systematic attack by brutal persecution, and filling the >news with false portrayals of an external enemy. The traditional form of >the big lie targets a highly symbolic event (the Reichstag fire or the U.S. >Trade Centre attack), or a claimed enemy of the populace ("communists" or >"Islamic extremists"). " > >McMurtry's paper will be dismissed by his powerful targets as 'conspiracy >theory'. But it is a theory which we must not fail to read and contemplate. >A 10-page PDF version can be downloaded and printed from >http://scienceforpeace.sa.utoronto.ca/Special_Activities/McMurtry_Dec9/01.pdf > > >Regards > >Brian Jenkins >Hon Sec, StopMAI Coalition, Western Australia > >Phone +61 (0)8 9528 1864 >Fax +61 (0)8 9529 1321 >Email •••@••.••• >Website http://members.iinet.net.au/~jenks/fair.html >WA Globalisation Forum: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WAGF > Regards, Vic -- Victor Guest V.G.Guest ARCH Perth, Western Australia •••@••.••• 17 Calectasia Street Greenwood 6024 ----: Sustainable Agriculture :---- Tel. (08) 92464674 --: The Land Management Society & The Permaculture Association:--- --: http://www.eepo.com.au/permacul.html :-- ---:SOMA:--- -----: Men Of The Trees, Holistic Management :------ ------: Revaluation Co-Counseling Landmark Education:------ -----: AAEE and Greenteach :----- http://www.eepo.com.au/~victor/ http://www.rosneath.com.au/ipc6/ for the proceedings of the Permaculture Convergence. Home Equity Associates. WWW.Hequity.com E-mail •••@••.••• Quote my sponsorship number to register WORLDWIDE. 300,007,249. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to •••@••.•••, send email to: •••@••.••• To unsubscribe to •••@••.•••, send email to: •••@••.••• For more help, send mail to: •••@••.••• The Allan Savory Center for Holistic Management 1010 Tijeras Ave NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102 USA 505.842.5252-ph, 505.843.7900-fax •••@••.••• www.HolisticManagement.org
