tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post1109939583673305907..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: It Ain't Your Grandfather's Fascism, But It's Still Facism - John PilgerThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-41126924522881715632015-02-27T09:27:25.072-08:002015-02-27T09:27:25.072-08:00Not sure what that means, Steve, in the context of...Not sure what that means, Steve, in the context of Bethune. As far as I recall he didn't fight but supported the Chinese through medical assistance.<br /><br />Pilger isn't advocating insurrection but resistance and rejection. We need a revival of the "great popular movements" like the rise of progressivism a century ago. We have to find a way to reinstate the middle class to safeguard democracy through the revival of popular control, politically and economically.<br /><br />Government of the people, by the people, for the people. The best shot we have today is the Green Party and the environmental movement.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-48055002353124703022015-02-27T07:44:53.321-08:002015-02-27T07:44:53.321-08:00Hey Mound if you want to fight what side should yo...Hey Mound if you want to fight what side should you choose? This is the mastery of the media that prevents a direct charge.<br />I am fighting with <a href="http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2015/02/i-am-fighting-with-dr-bethune.html" rel="nofollow">Norman Bethune.</a>Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-53207131781266914292015-02-26T22:05:40.137-08:002015-02-26T22:05:40.137-08:00What scares me, Willy, is that we're practical...What scares me, Willy, is that we're practically giving Putin the pretext he needs to stay in power - the latest threat to the Rodina from the West.<br /><br />I think there's something that resides deep within many Russians that causes our 'sanctions' to resonate as threats to the homeland.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-48062277610879713282015-02-26T19:10:43.392-08:002015-02-26T19:10:43.392-08:00Great post MoS.
And i agree that you can see it ...Great post MoS. <br /><br />And i agree that you can see it in the media reports. <br /><br />When it is Ukraine breaking the struggling ceasefire or blowing up a building, the nightly media is vague, never saying who bombed whom.<br /><br />But is usually followed by a quote from Harper/Baird/Kenny or who ever the PMO drag out to say that Canada will continue with it's pressure on Russia.<br /><br />Implying by omission and association that it was the Russian backed rebels that were the aggressors.WILLYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16507295892199741837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-36220776949907542422015-02-26T19:05:34.371-08:002015-02-26T19:05:34.371-08:00The Nuremberg Trials accomplished two objectives. ...The Nuremberg Trials accomplished two objectives. They blamed WWII and its Holocaust on Hitler and his henchmen. In doing so they also absolved the rest of us. As Curtis Lemay supposedly said, it was fortunate that America was on the winning side or he would have been put on trial. <br /><br />We won't have a healthy world until we can see our own flaws. Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-53220739691392227212015-02-26T16:46:09.634-08:002015-02-26T16:46:09.634-08:00Pamela, I agree with Pilger's claim that we ar...Pamela, I agree with Pilger's claim that we are being fed wholesale falsehood. One example was the recent heavy bombardment of Donetsk. Our media regularly faulted pro-Russian separatists for the artillery barrages yet that made no sense. The place getting shelled was in the pro-Russian sector. They would have had to be shelling their own without anyone being the wiser. Yet we kept getting sold this nonsense which was unquestioningly accepted even though it was coming from Kiev government sources.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-54126819587147322852015-02-26T16:27:32.586-08:002015-02-26T16:27:32.586-08:00The ongoing propaganda by the Western governments ...The ongoing propaganda by the Western governments and the out and out lies supported by media and exposed by <br />John Pilger is truly astounding Mound!<br />How can people come to know that they have been and still are continuously lied to, particularly about western foreign policy? The most recent propaganda about Russia being the agressor is an out and out right lie. I'm not convinced people in the west will finally figure out that there governments for the most part have been lying to them particularly since the second world war. Maybe it has to do with most people not really being interested in the truth. The western leadership is about acquiring and holding on to power. Power over the rest of the world and over their own citizens. John Pilger is a rare enlightened voice in an intellectual wasteland.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07842215982128591742noreply@blogger.com