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Latin America: Pilger goes Latino : Comments

By Rodrigo Acuña, published 1/10/2007

In 'The War on Democracy' journalist John Pilger aims to expose Washington's foreign policy in Latin America, and does not pull any punches.

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The nations of Hispanic America refuse birth control, overpopulate and expect the US to accept the surplus as illegal immigrants. It's about time they overcame their culture of dependency and took care of all of their citizens. While the current situation persists, the US has every right to interfere.
In terms of improving the life expectancy and decreasing the infant mortality rate of its citizens, guess which country has shown most improvement over the last 50 years? Chile. Did John Pilger tell everyone that?
Jack Sturgess
Posted by Jacks, Monday, 1 October 2007 10:04:26 PM
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"The nations of Hispanic America refuse birth control, overpopulate and expect the US to accept the surplus as illegal immigrants."

Err hang on! Thats the good old Italian, European, Catholic Church
in action, doing its damdest politically to deny them even the
use of condoms. You won't get a ticket to heaven if you use modern
birth control, according to them. Only last week a Catholic archbishop
in Africa was spreading the rumour that condoms are
in fact laced with HIV, to decrease the population.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7014335.stm

The West has alot to answer for, this is just yet another one.
Even George Bush can't get his mind around modern family planning,
despite the fact that his hundreds of millions of $ of preaching
abstinence have been a dismal failure.
Posted by Yabby, Monday, 1 October 2007 10:57:25 PM
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Please see miacats post on Fiona Armstrongs article; "Only fundamental reform can save our health system" elsewhere on OLO forum.

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Posted by miacat, Monday, 1 October 2007 11:03:25 PM
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Boazy: "If Pilger said 'And now.. I call on these parties to REPENT... and obey the Law of God Almighty'..."

...then we'd all know that he'd completely lost his marbles and no longer had anything rational to say. Fortunately, however, he continues to produce polemical books and documentaries that alert us to the excesses of the neocons. His style is a bit boringly tendentious for me, but he performs a useful function in bringing to light some of the appalling and covert acts perpetrated by latter-day Western imperialists to extend and reinforce their world hegemony.

We need more Pilgers and less preachers, I reckon.
Posted by CJ Morgan, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 8:11:17 AM
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CJ.. my major problem with PILGER is that he ONLY attacks the West and NeoCons.. it would appear.. I lost interest in his book (the one I started reading) when it became apparent that this was the case.

He had NOTHING negative to say about Socialist Totalitarian regimes that I can recall.. but I might be wrong there...

If he did.. he would have connected it SOMEhow to the Neocons and ended up blaming them :)

Here endeth the lesson.

No..if Pilger called on ALL people to 'repent' he would at last have some credibility and balance.
Posted by BOAZ_David, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 10:49:00 AM
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It's interesting that when people disagree with commentators such as Pilger, they spend most of their time attacking their personal background or motives and seem to overlook the substance of what has actually been said.

If you want to discredit his opinion, the best way would be to identify some specific factual errors.

Like the strategy used by politicians and shock-jocks says - "if you don't have the facts on your side, argue the Law. If you don't have the Law, argue the facts. If you don't have the facts or the Law on your side, call the other person names".

So true.

Perhaps a darker shade of rose-coloured glasses to look at history through will fix most of the critics.
Posted by wobbles, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 10:57:49 AM
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