It is wise to receive a dose o John Pilger every so often. He is experienced, well-researched, an honourable writer and an Australian.

He has identified the number of countries that have been controlled and exploited by the US, the #1 terrorist of all time. Capable of the manufacture of popular fiction, (al Qaeda in 2011), joint destabilisation programs like Pakistan at this very moment with the CIA, Mossad and India's RAW, they are covertly and overtly an evil empire and in their own indirect way, the reason for the unrest currently in the Arab world, their eyes clearly on Iran who have not yet been subjugated and therefore, do not toe the US / Israeli line.

Now they can't have that.

Sadly, the naivety of the American people wandering their little domains, still believing that the US Federal Reserve is a national institution, managed by government and able to be directed by the administrations of America, is just one example of how the control of media and the subservience by US administrations to the evil that is Israel, totally across the board with law enforcement, public servants, military and certainly 80% of both the Congress and The Senate, which when combined with a high level of apathy, allows the manipulation of the people's minds a simple task. The likes of Murdoch fill that bill every day.

As John Pilger has said, 'a word we dare not speak', fascism, a system of extreme right wing government, is alive and being practised in the US, who through their covert involvement have installed, tolerated and supported the Pinochet's of this world, the recently fallen Mubarak who did their bidding to the letter and every dictator known to history. The US is in there, boots and all.

So where from here? Unless the US people wake to the facts of 9/11, the real facts that is, the insidious parasitic cancer that is Israel controlling their totally compromised US elected representatives today, then it will be more of the same, the same cancer already in its early stages in this country, at the top.

Pilger's fanatical hatred of the US has totally warped his world view. He has no credibility.

Pilger lives somewhat luxuriously in London enjoying the delights of the capitalist system. Yet he is a good friend of the well-known eternally 'elected' dictator Hugo Chavez and his failing Socialist experiment. He has been racist in his criticism of Obama calling him "a glossy Uncle Tom who would bomb Pakistan". He frequently and conveniently gets his 'facts' wrong. He has a fanatical hatred of Israel and fabricates damning stories about them to prove his point.

Unfortunately, those who are susceptible to his conspiracy theories never check his assertions and swallow his nonsense hook, line and sinker.

Lets face it Pilger is a tired old 60's lefty who is on to a good thing and lives very nicely off it thank you very much even if it is full of hyperbole and outright 'untruths'.

This is a bit rich, John Pilger getting all indignant about tyrannies. The word 'fascism' could at least as easily be applied to many of the countries that he is dead quiet about, which happen not to be in the US camp. It's cheap and easy to go after Suharto and Pinochet and Mobutu, fair enough, and there isn't much point in playing the 'tu quoque' card. But couldn't China be seen as a corporatist state ?

Mengistu and Mugabe and Ghaddafi and Saddam and god knows how many others surely have verged on fascism, under left-sounding titles to be sure, but still fascism. Sometimes, over the last sixty years, it's been hard to tell the difference. Even from the Left :(

But surely the issue now is: once many Arab countries overthrow their corporatist or fascist or authoritarian dictators, how do they organise themselves to put better societies in place ? Those countries which have relied on oil, after all, will still have to rely on oil, and therefore markets - and frankly, I haven't seen much evidence of any anti-Western feeling, in Tunisia or Egypt or Libya. Maybe I missed it on TV, but I haven't seen any US flags getting burnt yet.

And who are Libyans appealing to when they cry out "Help us, help us, please, please, help us !" and ask for a no-fly zone to be enforced ?

The reality is, no matter how evil the Yanks may be or have been in the past, these revolutions do not have anything much to do directly with the US or the EU - but they do seem to be focussed on democracy, on the people's involvement in government and in shaping their own lives, on rights and the power to take responsibility.

In other words, modern democratic principles - not corporatism, not fascism, not even socialism, but democracy. What we are witnessing are their democratic revolutions.

All strength to their arms.

Joe

Pilger's writings are getting more strange as he gets older.

They are always good for a chuckle with the morning coffee.

"Hillary Clinton gave a speech.... It was a speech of spectacular hypocrisy, and Ray McGovern was in the audience. Outraged, he rose from his chair and silently turned his back on Clinton. He was immediately seized by police and a security goon and beaten to the floor, dragged out and thrown into jail, bleeding. He has sent me photographs of his injuries. He is 71. During the assault, which was clearly visible to Clinton, she did not pause in her remarks."

It's a pity some of you US apologists don't get out and read a bit more of the non-Murdoch press..

David