Waɗannan lokuta ne na ban mamaki. An baje akwatunan gawarwakin sojoji 'yan shekaru 18 da aka kashe a wani hari da suka gaza, ba bisa ka'ida ba da kuma daukar fansa a kan wani babban titin Wiltshire. Nasarar Afganistan ta kusa, in ji Gordon Brown. A gidan rediyon BBC Newsnight, jarumar 'yar majalisar dokokin Afganistan Malalai Joya, ta yi kokarin, cikin takaitaccen harshen turanci, don shaida wa jama'ar Burtaniya cewa ana hura mutanenta da sunan su: 'yan kauye 140, galibi yara, a lardinta na Farah. Babu fareti a gare su. Babu sunaye da fuskoki a gare su. Danne wahalhalun da mutanen Biritaniya da Amurka suka yiwa mulkin mallaka wata kasida ce ta bangaskiyar kafofin yada labarai, al'adar da ta kafu ta yadda ba ta bukatar umarni.
Bambancin yau shine yawancin mutanen Burtaniya ba a yaudare su ba. Masu karanta labarai masu faranta rai na iya cewa "An gwada aniyar Birtaniyya" kamar dai Luftwaffe ya dawo kan gaba, amma kuri'un nasu (BBC/ITN) ya nuna kyama ga yakin da ake yi a Afghanistan da Iraki. al'ummomin da ake daukar matasa don yakar su. Matsalolin al'ummar Biritaniya, in ji wani babban soja mai ritaya a tashar Channel 4 News, shine cewa suna bukatar "a horar da su da ilimi". Lallai suna yi, in ji Bertolt Brecht a cikin Magani, yana bayyana cewa mutanen . . .
Da ya bata amanar gwamnati
Kuma zai iya sake lashe shi kawai
Ta hanyar ninka ƙoƙarin. Ashe ba zai yi sauki ba
A haka ga gwamnati
Don wargaza mutane
Kuma zabar wani?
A cikin Yarjejeniyar Masana'antu ta zamani na zamani: Tattalin Arzikin Siyasa na Mass Media, Edward S Herman da Noam Chomsky sun bayyana yadda farfagandar yaƙi a cikin al'ummomin 'yanci ke "tace" ta ƙungiyoyin watsa labarai, ba kamar yadda aka sani ba "danye shiga tsakani, amma ta zaɓin dama- ma'aikata masu tunani da kuma ta masu gyara da masu aiki 'yan jarida na shigar da fitattun fitattun fitattun mutane da ma'anar cancantar labarai". Sakamakon mamayewar da Amurka ta yi wa Vietnam, inda aka kashe akalla mutane miliyan uku tare da lalata musu kasa mai albarka da guba, masu tsara shirin zubar da jini a nan gaba sun kirkiro “ciwon Vietnam”, wanda suka bayyana karkatacciya a matsayin “rikicin demokradiyya. ". "Rikicin" shine "yawan jama'a sun yi barazanar shiga cikin tsarin siyasa, suna ƙalubalantar dama da iko". Afganistan da Iraki yanzu suna da ciwon su.
Da wannan a zuciya, ina kira ga masu karatu da girmamawa da su ajiye jerin abubuwan karatun biki a cikin shafukan bita na jarida, tare da hauteur ɗinsu mai ban sha'awa, kuma su karanta, ko sake sake karantawa, littattafai masu kyau kamar Yarjejeniyar Masana'antu, waɗanda ke taimakawa fahimtar lokutan ban mamaki.
Kamar yadda Herman da Chomsky ke yankewa galibin kafofin watsa labaru na Amurka, kyakkyawan aboki shine Newspeak a cikin karni na 21, na David Edwards da David Cromwell (wanda Pluto suka buga a wata mai zuwa). Wadanda suka kafa da editoci na fitaccen gidan yanar gizo na www.medialens.org sun gabatar da tsattsauran ra'ayi na kafofin yada labarai na Biritaniya masu sassaucin ra'ayi, tare da yin amfani da irin tsangwama da ke kunyata wadanda ke shelanta rashin son kai da 'yancin kai daga hannun jari. Karanta kuma Ƙarni na Spin na David Miller da William Dinan, waɗanda suka bayyana haɓakar "gwamnati marar ganuwa" wanda ɗan wan Sigmund Freud Edward Bernays ya ƙirƙira. "Farfaganda," in ji Bernays, "ya zama mummunar kalma saboda Jamusawa, don haka abin da na yi shi ne in gwada wasu kalmomi." Sauran kalmomin su ne "hulɗar jama'a", wanda a yanzu yana cinye yawancin aikin jarida.
Sabuwar nasarar da PR ta samu shine "Obama sabon abu". A cikin Barack Obama da makomar siyasar Amurka (wanda aka buga a Amurka ta Paradigm), Paul Street ya kawar da abin rufe fuska a cikin watakila littafi daya tilo da ya faɗi gaskiya game da shugaban Amurka na 44.
Ban isa dariya ba? Pack Joseph Heller's Catch-22, wanda har yanzu bai dace ba a cikin ruguza wawaye da karyar masu kashe mutane masu yada yake-yake. Gwada wannan:
"Duk wanda," in ji Dr "Doc" Daneeka, "wanda ke son fita daga fada ba mahaukaci ba ne, don haka
Ba zan iya kasa shi ba."
Yossarian: "Ok, bari in daidaita wannan.
Domin a kasa, dole in zama mahaukaci. Kuma dole ne in zama mahaukaci don ci gaba da tashi. Amma idan na nemi a ba ni ƙasa, hakan yana nufin ba ni da hauka kuma, kuma dole ne in ci gaba da tashi."
Dr "Doc" Daneeka: "Ka samu..."
Kurt Vonnegut's daidai baƙar fata da jajirtacce da ban sha'awa gidan yanka biyar shine sauran littafin yaƙi da na fi so.
“Yaya majinyacin? [Karnel] ya tambaya.
"Matattu ga duniya."
"Amma a zahiri bai mutu ba."
"A'a."
"Yaya mai kyau - don jin komai, kuma har yanzu samun cikakkiyar daraja don kasancewa da rai."
Faber kwanan nan ya buga Harold Pinter's Various Voices: 60 Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics (1948-2008). Gem ne daga Pinter akan komai daga Shakespeare, wasan kurket na dare da safa na Arthur Miller zuwa babban iko mai kisa:
Bai taba faruwa ba. Babu wani abu da ya taɓa faruwa. Ko a lokacin da abin yake faruwa ba haka yake faruwa ba. Ba komai. Ba abin sha'awa ba ne. Laifukan Amurka sun kasance cikin tsari, akai-akai, mugu, rashin nadama . . . yayin da ake mayar da martani a matsayin wani karfi na amfanin duniya. Yana da hazaka, har ma da wayo, babban nasara aikin hypnosis.
Idan baku riga kun karanta ta ba, Zuciya Mafarauta ce kaɗai ta Carson McCullers abu ne mai wuyar magani: ra'ayin ɗan adam daidai, da kyau, da mutunci, duk da haka kusan an bayyana kwatsam. A cikin "rashin lahani" (F Scott Fitzgerald) na almara na zamani, babu wanda ya taɓa McCullers ko, don wannan al'amari, Pete Dexter, wanda Paris Trout shine babban littafin da ba a yi ba na Kudancin Amirka, ko Richard Ford, wanda Rock Springs yake. tarin gwaninta, da sauran nasa, akan abubuwan sirrin dake tsakanin maza da mata. Kuma kar ku manta Albert Camus's The Outsider, game da mutumin da ba zai yi riya ba: misalin yau. Barka da hutu.
An bai wa John Pilger lambar yabo ta hakkin dan Adam ta Australia, kyautar zaman lafiya ta Sydney www.johnpilger.com