KUTAMBURA MIND TORTURE
Iyo rhetoric yeboka rinotonga yehumambo inofanotaurwa kana iwe uchinge waziva makodhi edzidziso. Heino fungidziro yangu - yakapihwa paFacebook nguva dza6:00 pm pakati penguva - pakutaura kwaObama "kupera kwekurwisa mashandiro" kubva kuhofisi yeovhari, yakaunzwa nemaoko emutungamiri wenyika akapetwa mumakadhibhodhi ekucheka makadhi na7 pm manheru apfuura:
"Gadzirira imwe yakakomba yehumambo bullshit kubva kuOval Office paTerescreen yako muawa imwe. Ita zvekufungidzira zvako zvemukati izvozvi. Heino yangu: pachava nekutaura kwakawanda pamusoro pekuti US 'yakabayira' sei kunze kwezvinangwa zvakanaka uye zvakanaka; kutaura nezvehondo pamwe sechikanganiso asi hapana kutaurwa nezvayo sehumhondi hwakakura hunotyisa petro-imperial CRIME. Chinhu chikuru chisipo…ichava dhigirii rekufa kweIraqi nekuremara; mwero unoshamisa wekuti US yakauraya Iraq, chiyero chekuparadza kwakaiswa neUS. Mamirioni eIraqis akaurayiwa uye akaremadzwa. Zvose zvichange zviri ‘zvechibayiro chedu’ kwavari.”
"Kero yaObama ichave chiitiko mukushungurudza pfungwa dzeOrwellian uye chokwadi-inversion. 2+2=5. Iyi 'hondo' yedivi rimwe chete yemambo yakanga yakaipa kupfuura iyo maMongolia akaparadza Baghdad muzana ramakore rechi 13. Yakanga iri bhucha yemagariro evanhu. Fallujah 2004, semuenzaniso. Tommy Frank zita rechirongwa chekombuta rekuti vangangove vanhu vekuIraq vakakuvara manheru ekutanga kwekupinda? Yakanzi ‘BUGSPLAT.’ Hungu, ‘bugsplat.’”
“Izvi nezvimwe zvinhu zvidiki-diki zvinonetsa ndezvechokwadi hazvitaurike mudzidziso. Havana kuitika. Zvose pasi pegomba rendangariro ra1984.”
“CHIBAIRO” CHEDU KWAVO
Saka ndaita sei? Ini ndinonyorerwa kusakwana uye kuva nemoyo munyoro asi ndakaita zvakanaka pane zvese. Ndakanga ndakanyatso kurongeka pane "chibairo chedu kwavari" dingindira uye pahuwandu, hwakabatana nekudzima kwekuparadzwa kwakaiswa neU.S. Heano mamwe ekutaura uye anofanotaurwa / akafanotaurwa ndima kubva kukero yaObama nezuro manheru (ndiri kunyora mangwanani eChitatu Gunyana 1, 2010):
“Hondo yekutorera nyika zvombo yakazova kurwisana nevapanduki. Hugandanga nehondo dzemasekete dzakatyisidzira kuparadza Iraq. Zviuru zvevaAmerica zvakapa hupenyu hwavo; makumi ezviuru akakuvadzwa. Hukama hwedu kunze kwenyika hwakanga husina kumira zvakanaka. Kubatana kwedu kumba kwakaedzwa.”
"Uye sevanhu vese vekuAmerica, ndinoshamiswa nekuzvipira [kwemauto], uye nezvibayiro zvemhuri dzavo." "VaAmerica vakashanda muIraq vakapedza basa rose ravakapiwa. Vakakunda hutongi hwaityisa vanhu vahwo. Pamwe chete nevaIraqi uye vadyidzani vakaita zvibayiro zvakakura zvavo, mauto edu akarwa nebhuroka kubatsira Iraq kutora mukana weramangwana riri nani. Vakashandura maitiro ekuchengetedza vanhu veIraqi, vakadzidzisa Iraqi Security Forces, uye vakatora vatungamiri vehugandanga. Nekuda kwemauto edu nevanhuwo zvavo - uye nekuda kwekusimba kwevanhu veIraqi - Iraq ine mukana wekugamuchira mafambiro matsva, kunyangwe matambudziko mazhinji aripo."
"VaIraqi vanhu vanodada. Vakaramba hondo dzemasekete, uye havafariri kuparadzwa kusingagumi. Ivo vanonzwisisa kuti, pakupedzisira, maIraq chete ndiye anogona kugadzirisa kusawirirana kwavo uye mapurisa emigwagwa yavo. VaIraq chete ndivo vanogona kuvaka democracy mukati memiganhu yavo. Zvinogona kuitwa neAmerica, uye nekuita, kupa rutsigiro kuvanhu veIraqi seshamwari uye mubatsiri.
"Kugumisa hondo iyi hakusi kungofarira kweIraq chete - kuri kwatiri. United States yakabhadhara mutengo wakakura kuisa ramangwana reIraq mumaoko evanhu vayo. Takatumira majaya edu nevasikana kuti vape zvibairo zvakakura muIraq, uye vakashandisa zviwanikwa zvakakura kunze kwenyika panguva yebhajeti yakaoma kumba. Takatsungirira nekuda kwekutenda kwatinogovana nevanhu veIraqi - rutendo rwekuti kubva mumadota ehondo, mavambo matsva anogona kuzvarwa muukuru hwebudiriro. Kuburikidza nechitsauko ichi chinoshamisa munhoroondo yeUnited States neIraq, taita basa redu. "
"Zvinorwadza kwazvo, kubvira pakatanga hondo, nhengo makumi mashanu neshanu dzeFourth Stryker Brigade dzakaita chibayiro chekupedzisira - chikamu chevanopfuura zviuru zvina makumi mana vekuAmerica vakapa hupenyu hwavo muIraq. …Vanhu vekuAmerica avo vakapa hupenyu hwavo nekuda kwehunhu hwakagara mumoyo yevanhu vedu kwemazana maviri emakore. "Pamwe chete nevanoda kusvika miriyoni 55 vekuAmerica vakashanda muIraq, vakarwira kunzvimbo iri kure kune vanhu vavasina kumboziva. Vakatarisa murima rezvisikwa zvevanhu - hondo - uye vakabatsira vanhu veIraqi kutsvaga chiedza cherunyararo. "
ZVIsingaonekwi HOLOCAUST
Mazwi aya anofanira kunzwika seanotyisa sei kune vakapona muIraqi munguva pfupi yapfuura yekurwiswa kwehumambo hweAmerica (zvichitevera mushure mekupinda nechisimba uye makore gumi-pamwe nehutongi hwe "zvirango" hweUS hwakauraya vanopfuura miriyoni yeIraqi.) Ikoko kwakanga kusina chinhu chechokwadi mumashoko aObama pamusoro pe: mamiriyoni e1.5 kana kuti ikozvino mamiriyoni e2 kana kupfuura maIraqi "isu" (Washington) akaurayiwa; iyo Iraqi tekinoroji uye yemagariro zvivakwa "isu" takatarisana; nyanzvi yekirasi exodus "isu" yakakonzera, mvura nemhepo "isu" ine chepfu, mazinga ekenza "isu" takasundira denga kumusoro (pamusoro pane zvakaitwa nebhomba reHiroshima) muFallujah.
Vanhu veIraqi - vakaderedzwa kusvika pahunhu hwezvipembenene nePentagon muchirimo che2003 - vakawana izvo zvakaenzana neUS-yakatemerwa Holocaust. Sezvo "Iraq" yaiwedzera kusundirwa kumucheto kwemushandirapamwe wemutungamiri weUS (uye wenhau huru) muna Ndira we2008, munyori asingatyi hondo Tom Engelhardt akacherechedza zvinotevera:
“Kunyangwe vanhuwo zvavo vakafa pakati pekupinda nechisimba kwegore ra2003 kusvika pakati pa2006 (gore rakaipisisa remhirizhonga yehondo yevagari vemo risati rasvika) vanga vari pakati pe600,000 seongororo mumagazini yezvokurapa yeBritain, The Lancet yakashuma, kana kuti 150,000 Ongororo ichangoburwa yeWorld Health Organisation inoratidza, vangave mamirioni maviri kana 2.5 miriyoni Iraqis vakatiza munyika, vangave 1.1 miriyoni kana vanopfuura mamirioni maviri vakadzingwa mukati, kunyangwe kudzima kwemagetsi uye kushomeka kwemvura kwakawedzera zvishoma kana kudzikira, kungave hutano hwenyika. sisitimu haichamutsiridzike kana kuti ichiri kumutsiridzwa, ingave kugadzirwa kwemafuta eIraq kwave kuda kudzokera kunzvimbo yakaderera yenguva yeSaddam Hussein kana kuti kwete, ingave minda yeopium poppies, kekutanga, ichipararira munzvimbo dzekurima dzenyika kana. ichiri munharaunda, Iraq inzvimbo yenjodzi inoenderera mberi pamwero wenjodzi yakaoma kuenderana mundangariro dzazvino. "
Sekureva kwemutori wenhau anoremekedzwa Nir Rosen muna Zvita 2007 edition yenhau huru Current History, "Iraq yakaurayiwa, kusazomuka zvakare. Kutorwa kweAmerica kwave kwakaipisisa kupfuura kwevaMongolia vakapamba Baghdad muzana ramakore rechigumi nematatu. Mapenzi chete ndiwo anotaura nezvemhinduro manje. Hapana mhinduro. Tariro chete ndeyekuti pamwe kukuvara kwacho kunogona kuvharika. "
Kukuvadzwa kwacho kwaisanganisira zviuru zvisingaverengeki zvakatambudzwa mumajeri emauto eUS uye zviuru zvakaurayiwa muFallujah, nzvimbo yehutsinye hwehondo yeUS (mhosva dzaisanganisira kuurayiwa zvisina tsarukano kwevanhuwo zvavo, kutariswa kunyangwe maamburenzi nezvipatara, uye kukwirisa kweguta rese) nemauto eUnited States anogara “achipira” muna Kubvumbi naMbudzi wa2004. Guta racho rakasarudzwa kuti riparadzwe semuenzaniso wekutyisa kwehurumende kwakavimbiswa kune avo vakatsunga kuramba simba reU.S. Chimwewo chikamu chekuparadza kwacho kwaive kudzingwa nekuparadzwa kwenhoroondo yakakosha yetsika dzeMesopotamia (kupambwa kwezvinhu zvakawanda zvepakutanga kubva kune zvakabvumwa naObama kuti "kutangira kwebudiriro") - izvi zvakabvumidzwa nemauto eSuperpower asingaenzaniswi ukuwo mauto emuWashington achengeta kuchengetedzwa kwakazara. uye kuvhara kuIraq yakakosha Oiri Ministry.
Kutambura kukuru kwakaiswa pavaIraqi nevakuru vehondo muWashington zvangave zvisingataurwi/zvisingaonekwe mukero yaObama - uye mukuteerera kukuru kwenhau yenhau yenhau yekero yake, iyo yaitarisa pakati pezvimwe zvinhu "mutauro wemuviri" wake wehuni. Yakanga yakanyanya kusimba isina kusimba hafu-yakakurudzirwa mukufungidzira kwaObama kunotyisa kuti US yakapa Iraq "nyowani [yedemocracy] kutanga" kuburikidza ne "madota ehondo" (haana mumiriri / munyori Obama kushoropodza [mubhuku rake remhinduro The Audacity of Hope. ] chaaiti chishuwo chaBush chekuendesa hutongi hwejekerere kunze kwenyika kuburikidza nepfuti?) Hazvienderane nedzidziso, inodaidzwa kuti American excionalist truism yekuti We Are Good, nepfungwa yakadzika midzi yekuti - sekutaura kwakaita Obama pachezvake. nguva dzinodzokororwa (kutsanangura chikonzero nei Washington isingambokumbire ruregerero nezvayakaita) - iyo US haitombopara mhosva nekuti "inonyanya kuita zvakanaka munyika."
Iyo propaganda system ine nzira inonakidza yekubata neUS kukonzeresa kwekutambudzika kukuru muIraq: deletion/erasure/airbrushing. Mhosva haina kuitika. Inodzika pasi Orwell's "gomba rekuyeuka" kunyangwe pazvinoitika / zvisingaitike.
Kutambura nechibayiro? Sezvakaita neVietnam "hondo" (chaizvo izvo Noam Chomsky mukupera kwema1960 akadana "kurovererwa [kweumambo hweUS] kweSoutheast Asia") ndezvekufungidzirwa kuti vanhu vanoremekedzwa uye vane mutsa vekuAmerica. Saka ko kana US yakauraya 3 miriyoni Indochinese pakati pe1962 ne1975 uye mamirioni eIraqis pakati pe1990 nezvino? Vanyajambwa chaivo vanhu vekuAmerica vasina udyire, vakafa uye vakatambura vari vashoma. Vanofungidzirwa kuti chikamu che "rudzi rwuri kuhondo" rwakanaka rwedemokrasi kunyangwe "hondo" dziri kutaurwa dziri mauto ane ropa rekoloni akarwiwa nenzira dzakadzama nehumambo munyika dziri kure uye dzine hurombo uye kunyangwe mauto akadzidza kusambofa. dzokorora kukanganisa kwakashata kweVietnam kuedza kunyoresa ruzhinji rwevanhu mumabasa akashata akadai. Hondo iripi? Kwete apa.
ZVINANGWA ZVAKANAKA
Zvimwechete zvisingataurwi neThe Empire's New Clothes (Barack Obama) nezuro manheru kana nevezvenhau nhasi chaive/ndicho chikonzero chekuparadzwa kukuru kwakaiswa neSuperpower pane vanhu vasina simba uye vasina dziviriro muIraq. Sevazhinji veIraqis uye vagari vepasi rese chero munhu ane mashoma anoshanda grey maseru uye ruzivo rwekutanga ainyatsoziva, iyo US "hondo" (kupinda nekugara) yakatangwa munaKurume we2003 yakanga isina chekuita nemukuru uye nekukurumidza kugadzirisa pretexts. Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL - chirevo chepakutanga chaive chakanyanya kusviba uye kupinda kwacho kwaifanira kunyorwazve ne "Rusununguko"/F pakupera) kwaive kusungirira bhutsu yehumambo pasi pe hyper-strategic Middle East oil spigot, inowirirana. neDhipatimendi reHurumende muna 1945 richitaura nezvenzvimbo iyoyo isingaenzaniswi yemafuta ezvicherwa se“simba rinoshamisa resimba, uye mumwe wemibairo mikuru kwazvo munhoroondo.” (Kudzora “mubairo,” achitungamira murongi weCold War George Kennan akacherekedza, kwakapa US “veto simba” pamusoro pevakwikwidzi vanotungamira mumaindasitiri.) Dai Iraq yanga isina mafuta akawanda, ingadai isina kupindwa nechisimba mushure me9/ 11 (kana chero imwe) zvirevo, izvo zvakafamba nekukurumidza uye pachena kubva pakubvisa "zvombo zvekuparadza" Saddam (WMD) kusvika kune inotosekesa chirevo chechido chekusimudzira democracy kana zvangove pachena kuti mudzvanyiriri weIraqi (akaramba aripo. simba nehurumende yezvirango zveUS) yaive (sezvaizivikanwa nevacherechedzi nevaongorori vanga vachiti) hapana mauto akadaro.
Zvinosuwisa uye zvakadaro, hongu kufanofungidzira kwaive nezuro manheru kunzwa mukuru wekutaura waObama achidzora hupenzi hwehumambo pamusoro pezvikonzero. Akataura pasina kunyomba kana kushoropodza kuti Bush akatanga "hondo yekutorera nyika zvombo" uye akabva aenda zvisina simba mune zano rekuti America yanga ichiedza kubatsira Iraq "kuvaka demokrasi" - musimboti we "kutanga kutsva" kwatinofunga kuti takazvipa. nomu“madota ehondo” mu“miganhu yayo imene.” "Isu" hatisi kuita chinhu chakadaro uye hatina kumbopihwa kupokana kwakakosha pakati pezvinotendwa uye zvishuwo zvevanhu veIraqi uye chokwadi chekugara kweAmerica - basa rinoenderera mberi, nenzira, nekuenderera mberi kwemauto eUS. (kusanganisira yakakura "yakavanzika" yemauto kontrakta kuvapo) mukati meIraq uye "pamusoro pedenga" pasi pekupopota kwe "kupera kwehondo."
KUTAMIRA KUPFUURA ZVAKASIYANA
Zvinosuwisa uye zvinofungidzirika zvakare kunzwa iyo Great Imperial Re-Brander (Obama) ichitsvaga kunyararidza kupokana uye kupatsanurana mudzimba - kudzikamisa kuviriswa kwedemocracy munyika yehumambo - nekutaura kwenyika kunovhiringidza hutongi hwakakurumbira nekubatana kwekuda nyika uye post 9/11. kutya-, kugarwa nhaka kubva kuCheney neDubya:
“Masikati ano, ndataura nevaimbove Mutungamiri George W. Bush. Zvinonyatsozivikanwa kuti iye neni takapesana nezvehondo kubva pakutanga kwayo. Zvakadaro hapana anogona kupokana rutsigiro rweMutungamiri Bush kumauto edu, kana kuda kwake nyika uye kuzvipira kuchengetedzeka kwedu. Sezvandambotaura, kune vanoda nyika vakatsigira hondo iyi, uye vanoda nyika vaipikisa. Uye isu tese takabatana mukutenda vashandi vedu nevakadzi, uye tariro yedu yeramangwana reIraqi. "
“Kukura kwedemocracy yedu kwakavakirwa mukukwanisa kwedu kuenda kunze kwekusiyana kwedu, uye kudzidza kubva kune zvakaitika kwatiri apo tinotarisana nematambudziko mazhinji ari mberi. Uye hapana dambudziko rakakosha kuchengetedzeka kwedu kupfuura kurwa kwedu neAl Qaeda. "
Chenjerera nezve "charismatic" (izwi iro rinoratidzika kushomeka uye kushoma kushanda kune yazvino, inogara-inowedzera kadhibhodhi semutungamiri) vakuru veumambo vanobatanidza democracy nekudzvanyirira mutsauko uye vanotaura "rudo rwenyika" nevavengi (chaiye uye / kana akagadzirwa. ) kunze kwenyika sechikonzero chekudzvinyirirwa kwemutsauko. "Zvisungo zvakasungirirwa rusununguko kumba," James Madison akambotaura. "zvakambogadzirwa kubva muzvombo zvekuzvidzivirira panjodzi chaidzo, dzekunyepedzera, kana dzekufungidzira kunze kwenyika."
Postscript. Zvichida zvakakodzera kuyeuka pano kuti tsika yaObama yeOrwellian whitewash kana zvasvika pahutsinye hwehumambo hweAmerica hwakatangira kusvika kwake kuWhite House. Zvakanga zviri pachena mukutaura kwake uye zvinyorwa kubva muna 2004 kuburikidza nemushandirapamwe wake wemutungamiri wenyika nekugadzwa. Ndakapa mienzaniso mizhinji kwazvo yeizvi muChitsauko 4 ("Kurwisa Sei? Barack Obama, Iraq, uye Audacity of Empire") yebhuku rangu Barack Obama uye Future of American Politics (uye Chitsauko 6 ("Takanyeverwa") che bhuku rangu idzva The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama muNyika Yechokwadi Yesimba (http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=243410) Onawo Paul Street, "The Audacity of Imperial Airbrushing: Barack Obama's Whitewashed History of U.S. Foreign Policy uye Nei Zvine Basa," ZNet (Chikunguru 5, 2008) pa. https://znetwork.org/the-audacity-of-imperial-airbrushing-barack-obama-s-whitewashed-history-of-u-s-foreign-policy-and-why-it-matters-by-paul-street naPaul Street, “Keynote Reflections,”’ ZNet (Chikunguru 29, 2010) pa https://znetwork.org/keynote-reflections-by-paul-street.
Paul Street (www.paulstreet.org) ndiye munyori wemabhuku akawanda, kusanganisira (achangobva kunze) The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama muNyika Yechokwadi Yesimba (http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=243410) Mugwagwa uchakurukura bhuku rake idzva uye mamiriro ezvematongerwo enyika aripo panguva yebhuku salon kuFiredogLake (FDL). Enda ku www.fdlbooksalon.com/ musi weMugovera September 4, 2010 5 kusvika 7pm nguva dzekumabvazuva (4 kusvika 6 nechepakati); vaverengi vasina FDL log-in ID vanofanirwa kuenda online angangoita maminetsi gumi nemashanu vasati vawana imwe. Pauro anogona kusvikwa pa [email inodzivirirwa] uye kuburikidza neWebhusaiti yake itsva (pamusoro).
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