by John Pilger from Green Left (Australia).
This distinguished, independent Aussie journalist provides us with a stirring defense of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and independent journalism that exposes the lies of the global capitalists. Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and journalists like John Pilger are in the front lines of the struggle to expose their lies.
Several years ago Warren Buffet admitted what was an open secret among his friends: “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” Well, working people are finally waking up to this fact because this class war is hardly disguised anymore.
More and more people all over the world are beginning to fight back against the lies and corruption of the world's capitalist classes and their puppets, stooges, satraps, proxies, etc. They are fighting back in Greece, France, Ireland, Portugal, Egypt, Yemen, Wisconsin, and many other places.
As I see it, we are now at a pivotal point in human history. What we, as working people, do now, or don't do, will have lasting effects on the ultimate destiny of the human race. If we sit passively in front of our boob tubes mesmerized by the cultural junk and lies fed to our minds by corporations, we will bestow to our children and grandchildren a nightmarish world of poverty, ignorance, extreme weather, environmental devastation, resource depletion--all under the control of an Orwellian police state.
On the other hand, if we can turn our attention away from the boob tube to talk and listen to each other and supporting those in the front-lines of this battle, we might just be able to figure a way out of this growing nightmare. If we can rid ourselves of this oppressive class structure, we might enter a new renaissance, a new era that uses man's greatest intellectual achievement, the scientific method, in combination with a universal yearning for social justice, to create a rich, sustainable life of peace and social justice.
