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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1303 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on January 31, 2003 and belongs in the politics category. The previous post was It’s a girl!, and the next post is Vonnegut Interview.

Blair Is A Coward

John Pilger in The Mirror: Blair is a coward

He is the embod­i­ment of the most dan­ger­ous appease­ment human­ity has known since the 1930s. The cur­rent Amer­i­can elite is the Third Reich of our times, although this dis­tinc­tion ought not to let us forget that they have merely accel­er­ated more than half a cen­tury of unre­lent­ing Amer­i­can state ter­ror­ism: from the atomic bombs dropped cyn­i­cally on Japan as a signal of their new power to the dozens of coun­tries invaded, directly or by proxy, to destroy democ­racy wher­ever it col­lided with Amer­i­can “interests”, such as a vora­cious appetite for the world’s resources, like oil.

It’s pretty amaz­ing that what must be the biggest anti-​war cam­paign in Britain is being run by a tabloid. Obvi­ously, The Mirror has a long and illus­tri­ous his­tory of left-​wing cam­paign­ing jour­nal­ism, but that legacy seemed to have fallen by the way­side some­time before I was old enough to really read newspapers.

Posted at 11am on 31/01/03 by Jack Mottram to the politics category.
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