Leave it to the Commies

You know how it goes. You say you're finished with it and you may even think that you're finished with it, but it continues to work its way around in you. "Midgets in my head, chompin' on my brain." 1  So this morning I googled Al-Shifa and found some pretty disturbing stuff which suggests that not only did Clinton/America not apologize or seek to make amends for its bombing of the pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan (a major plant, by the way, which supplied something like one-half of the Sudan with basic drugs), but that there was strong evidence to suggest that he knew beforehand that it was not producing anything related to chemical weapons. And worse: when Sudan appealed to the UN for an investigation, the US blocked it. Said there was no need. Of course not. Why would anyone need to check up on us, after all? We're the good guys. Jesus Christ. At any rate, during my journey I happened upon several interesting articles, one of which was on the World Socialist Web Site. In the midst of information specific to the Al-Shifa attack, the writer had this to say:

"The barefaced lying by the American government demonstrates a cynical and contemptuous attitude to the public. And the corporate-controlled media obediently repeats the official propaganda, no matter how unconvincing. Both the media and the government count on the acquiescence of a public opinion which has been systematically deprived of the information necessary for critical judgment." (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/08/bomb-a26.html?view=article_mobile)

Which is pretty much Noam Chomsky in a nutshell. Isn't it amazing that we go around priding ourselves on our open society, our free speech, our free thought . . . when the truth is, as I said to my former friend at work, we are the most conservative of nations, we have no respect for any opinion one inch to the left of far right, and we chastise and ridicule opposing points of view rather than lend an ear? It's enough to make you puke.



1 A Dustin Hoffman line from the great (and completely forgotten) movie, Who is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971).