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Old game, new obsession, new enemy. Now it's China. : Comments

By John Pilger, published 14/10/2013

Africa is China's success story. Where the Americans bring drones, the Chinese build roads, bridges and dams.

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There are far too few grains of truth amongst all this chaff or rubbish. Which sounds, I believe, almost like extreme Islamist propaganda!
If one wants to revisit history, and see who was dealt the most injustice or taught to hate each other the most, one doesn't need go past the annexing of Ireland or Scotland; or the highland clearances!
Or the acquisition of Irish property, via extremely onerous religious tithes by the church of England! Or via the release of the black and tans, who quite literally murdered or raped their way across southern Ireland.
Firebrand preachers, not unlike an evangelizing and patently partisan John Pilger, did nothing but harm, stirring up the hate, and only ever succeeded in adding immensely to the death toll.
Two, divide and rule hateful wrongs can never ever equate to a right, nor can the pages of history, once accurately recorded, ever be erased.
Blowing up or bombing unarmed non combatant civilians is not only the very worst example of extreme cowardice, but is entirely counter productive, with an even larger longer list of blood debt grievances to be readdressed!
As if that were ever actually possible!
Simply put, the Middle East and Somalia and too many places between, could do worse than emulate South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission, and having told their stories, set about ensuring they never ever occur again to anyone else; or ever again.
China learned from Japan's post war example, that there is a bloodless way to get what you covet! Just buy it or the affection of those who currently hold it!
As for the drones, may they continue to fly, until no child can be shot in the head on her way to school, simply for PEACEFULLY advocating on behalf of some of the most disadvantaged peoples on earth; Muslim women!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Monday, 14 October 2013 11:18:58 AM
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"Firebrand preachers, not unlike an evangelizing and patently partisan John Pilger, did nothing but harm, stirring up the hate, and only ever succeeded in adding immensely to the death toll."

Rhosty, your frequent, wordy, rambling forays into world affairs on OLO are tolerated but only just. When you start offering criticism of John Pilger you step into a no-go zone.

Stick with what you know which is not much!
Posted by David G, Monday, 14 October 2013 12:32:59 PM
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Another piece of chaotic gobbledegook from Pilger, who has a salivating love of anything Left and totalitarian, while, at the same time, enjoying the benefits of being a wealthy Londoner.
Posted by Atman, Monday, 14 October 2013 1:17:50 PM
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pilger is an absolute tosser. full stop.
Posted by Chris Lewis, Monday, 14 October 2013 1:46:02 PM
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Atman and Lewis, there are only a few people in the world who try to make the world a better place. Pilger is one of them!

Then there are people like you who, clearly, are a waste of space, people who support war and greed and imperialism and attack anyone who attacks the warmongers and rich elite who are leading us towards a nuclear war!

Why don't you think before you write? It would make a nice change.
Posted by David G, Monday, 14 October 2013 2:31:13 PM
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Come on David G, like Dr. William McBride, Pilger once did something right, & can't stand not having disciples hanging on his every word. What he does today is about as useful as McBride's later work.

He keeps publishing this garbage in an attempt to regain the glory days. Apparently you like being a disciple
Posted by Hasbeen, Monday, 14 October 2013 6:50:52 PM
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Thanks, Pilger. Meanwhile, back in the real world......

Tony O'Brien
Posted by tonyo, Monday, 14 October 2013 11:23:40 PM
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Thank you, thank you, John Pilger.

I was once a young trendy lefty myself desperately accepting any anti authority and anti western propaganda in my need to think that I was a member of the intelligent class. But articles like your which are so obviously nothing but total lies and gross distortions forced me to reappraise my convictions and start thinking objectively.

The constant themes that you and your comrades advocated was that the capitalist western democracies were always wrong, the socialist world was always right, and everything that ever went wrong in the world was all the fault of white imperialists. The only people dumb enough to accept such nonsense would be people with Arjay and David G's low level of intelligence.

I began to see how people such as you lot could only see the world in terms of oppressors and victims. Nothing else made any sense to you. The white European people who have led the world forward into the modern world are the problem. The head hunters, cannibals, Muslims and savages are all just really nice people who were living Edenic lives like nice little Jeffersonian democrat Hobbits, before those dastardly white Europeans spoiled everything.

At the moment, the Somalis have practically become a one race crime wave in Melbourne, Victoria. I could just see John Pilger standing before the judge defending his Somali client by saying that the reason his client robbed, raped and murdered people on the streets of Melbourne was all because of Western imperialism.

Yeah, that would wash.
Posted by LEGO, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 3:46:41 AM
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"I was once a young trendy lefty myself," says Lego.

What he forgot to add was, "And now I am an old, dithering fool!"
Posted by David G, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 8:38:55 AM
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Ho hum. Another Pilger sloganfest.

Well, the poor chap is getting old, after all. As are we all, of course, but some accept the waning of our powers more gracefully than others.

With age comes a certain amount of laziness, of course. In our eagerness to demonstrate that we "still have it", we get careless. On which topic, does anyone care to track down this pivotal "quote" upon which Mr Pilger has built today's homily?

"Tens of thousands of people have been handed from one power to another. 'When they are made to hate each other,' wrote a British colonial official, 'good governance is assured.'"

Sounds good, doesn't it? I wonder who invented it first, Pilger or that easy object of Pilger's hatred, "a British colonial official"

The saddest aspect of it all is that by trying to pin Africa's problems on a single source, Pilger debases the entire tragic story, and requires any progress towards a solution to be subject to his personal approval. Given the intensely narrow focus he brings to bear, this would require a complete rewriting of history.

The very definition of pointlessness.
Posted by Pericles, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 9:03:24 AM
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What nuclear war David G? What are you on about? How is Pilger's crass, inaccurate and highly eclectic rambling going to make the world a better place?
Posted by Cody, Friday, 18 October 2013 2:19:19 PM
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Pilger is right about Western Imperialism in Africa. If China gets too much power they will become like our oppressors.
Posted by Arjay, Friday, 18 October 2013 8:56:38 PM
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