“During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.” PeopleHas BeensWarAmericaHumanityLifetimeWaging War Author:John Pilger
“If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsHas BeensRealSchoolMillionsFiveProductsDevelopmentHighestModelsPercentThirdsThreatMeetingsRateDefeatPrimariesVietnamAsiaLiteracyGrossThird WorldBasic NeedsUnescoSecondary SchoolEnrollment Author:John Pilger
“The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the job. The war on terrorism has given them that opportunity. Even though the logic is convoluted and fraudulent, it appears they are going to go ahead and finish the job.” LongHas BeensWarStatesJobsOpportunityGivenUnitedUnited StatesLogicLongingIraqExcuseExtremesTerrorismSaddamWar On TerrorWar On TerrorismConvolutedGeorge H W Bush Author:John Pilger
“Iraq has been successfully demonized as if everybody who lives there is Saddam Hussein. In the build-up to this attack on Iraq, journalists have almost universally excluded the prospect of civilian deaths, the numbers of people who would die, because those people don't matter.” PeopleIfsHas BeensMatterDiesNumbersIraqJournalistSaddamHusseinCiviliansExcludedCivilian Deaths Author:John Pilger
