John PilgerThinkers

Democracy is today to politics what mcdonalds is to food. It is tied to corporatism and has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. It involves socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war.

Journalism is broadly establishment not in that they sit down and think, 'i'm now going to speak for the establishment.' Rather, they internalize a whole set of assumptions, such as that the world should be seen in terms of its usefulness to the west, leading journalist to make a distinction between people who matter and people who don't matter.

Journalism is, whenever it is claimed to be objective, merely a clumsy admission that the person in question channels the official truth and speaks for an internalized consensual view of the establishment.

The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.

Vietnam is an event that served as a laboratory experiment as a war.

The War on Terror is a farce. Instead there is a war of terror.

The War on Terrorism is a farce... it is merely the great game speeded up of the rapacious global superpowers, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.