On Freedom of Speech

Le mythe postmoderne de l'indépendance des médias

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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À New York, lors d'un banquet, le 25 septembre 1880, le célèbre journaliste John Swinton se fâche quand on propose un toast à la liberté de la presse.

« Il n'existe pas, à ce jour, en Amérique, de presse libre et indépendante. Vous le savez aussi bien que moi. Pas un seul parmi vous n'ose écrire ses opinions honnêtes et vous savez très bien que si vous le faites, elles ne seront pas publiées. On me paye un salaire pour que je ne publie pas mes opinions et nous savons tous que si nous nous aventurions à le faire, nous nous retrouverions à la rue illico. Le travail du journaliste est la destruction de la vérité, le mensonge patent, la perversion des faits et la manipulation de l'opinion au service des Puissances de l'Argent. Nous sommes les outils obéissants des Puissants et des Riches qui tirent les ficelles dans les coulisses. Nos talents, nos facultés et nos vies appartiennent à ces hommes. Nous sommes des prostituées de l'intellect. Tout cela, vous le savez aussi bien que moi ! »

(Il s'agit, faut-il s'étonner, encore, de 25 septembre 1880. En parlant la newspeak du "progrès" et de la "démocratie". Source: Labor's Untold Story, de Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, NY, 1955/1979.)

Soarta Imperiului

Când ai uitat de unde ai plecat...

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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Soarta Imperiului s-a pecetluit. Despre aceasta, din nou scrie aici neobositul, talentatul Malic:

The Empire has blundered in the Balkans, and badly. Intoxicated with power and believing themselves able to change reality itself by force its rulers have stumbled into a trap of their own making. In 1999, Kosovo was made into a symbol of Imperial might; now it has become a symbol of Imperial weakness. By insisting on the impossible and rejecting reality, rulers of the Empire have wasted every pretense of authority. The Empire may have been bled dry in the sands of Iraq, but it will perish over some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.

Ce este Dreptul?

Cam tot ceea ce mai este (sau mai curând era) gramatica română?

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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Article 19 of the UN Human Rights Charter explicitly states:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

Aceasta mi-aduce aminte:
Dreptul nu este ceva ce se acordă, ci tocmai ceea ce nimeni nu-ţi poate lua!

Tot ce se aude prin presă despre drepturi rămâne doar retoric. Nu există în realitate nimic similar cu a "cere dreptul". Această vociferare, clamare, folosită azi atât de des, inclusiv în urâtul cuvânt anglo-saxon claiming este un fals în acte publice. Chiar Diogene spunea Macedonului "nu-mi lua ce nu-mi poţi da!". Există o modă rea, un Zeitgeist pocit, ba chiar o invitaţie zilnică a necuratului in actul de a ne "cere" drepturile. Aceste uneltiri nu pot persista fără acea retorică falsă a "progresului", a "evoluţiei" sau a "diversităţii" mincinoase, care distrug ţesătura corpului social sau aceea mai fină a istoriei unui neam.

Dar nici o dezinformare nu poate sta în vre-o cumpănă oarecare cu demnitatea suverană a umanului, care nu are nici o măsură comună cu justiţia, ci cu Creatorul. Dreptul este. E drept a fi astfel! A "cere" dreptul transformă omul liber, suveran în mod natural pentru că aduce slavă unui singur Stăpân, în lacheu la fals stăpân. Veghea la hotară cere a nu lăsa dreptul suveran să decadă în negoţ cosmopolitan. Demnitatea umană este o minune pe care doar Domnul a creat-o! Doar Domnul nostru, Mântuitorul Hristos ne-a redat-o la Înviere! Iar numai Sfântul Duh poate veghea asupra demnei noastre origini dinainte de cădere.

Departe-văzător în Gaza

Dragul de Israel!

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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Dintre creştinii din Ţara Sfântă - cei atât de prigoniţi de câtre sionişti - printre cei cu discursul cel mai articulat, chiar lucid, deşi strict politic, este Israel Shamir, dragul meu „departe-văzător”. Numele pe care le dă el lucrurilor sunt clare. Uneori ne miră, adesea vrem să-l ajutăm, dar mereu ne interesează. Scrie bine. Iată-l într-un fragment limpede din Întunecime dinspre Apus...

In the Holocaust dogma, Pope Pius surrendered the Jews to the Germans, affirming the eternal enmity of the Holocaustians to the Church. It does not matter that on a factual level, the accusations have been refuted many times over. Our tenacious enemy never gives up, never acknowledges his defeat, never accepts the facts unless they suit him.

Who is the enemy? Some people refer to the Israel Lobby with their great control over media. In the famed tract, they were called the Elders of Zion. Others call them Illuminati. I called them the Masters of Discourse, the operators of the integrated machine of public disinformation and indoctrination, from the Wall Street Journal to the Wikipedia. Thousands of networks, newspapers, journals, books, films and ideas are being united and guided by their invisible hand, while free thought still survives in the far reaches of the web. The fearsome AIPAC is just the visible tip of the iceberg, below which are miles and miles of solid ice: media lords, chief editors, their pundits – in short, the Masters of Discourse. Their power base is in the media, in their ability to create a false presentation of reality and mislead people. Recently John Pilger described it as The Invisible Government.

When the Masters of Discourse fought against Communism, they had a few faked 'facts' they were never tired of brushing up. They played with stupefying numbers: Communists killed thirty, no, fifty, no, sixty million, though the freely available demographic figures of the Soviet Union made it as miraculous as feeding of the multitudes by five loaves. They invented Soviet anti-Semitism, though Soviet government and security always had a lot of Jews in high places. They invented Soviet totalitarianism, though the Soviet people freely supported their government. Instead of the Holy Grail, they had Raul Wallenberg, who was supposed to have survived miraculously and to have been kept in some far-away jail. No research would ever move them to recognize their inventions for being what they were, namely, lies.

Now they want to destroy Iran and cripple Russia, for these lands did not forget God. They do fight against the Church, against every church, be it Communism or Islam or Orthodox Judaism, or their traditional enemy, the Apostolic Church, for every church defends its flock against their robbery and resists their dark drive for domination. The church affirms the primacy of spirit, and of the godlike nature of man; this is anathema to the Masters. On a deeper level, the Church is their main adversary, for they are a competing church of sorts, the church of darkness, and they will not suffer a competitor.

Dominant as they are, they are not omnipotent. We should not be afraid of them. There is no magic in their incantations. They have no divine powers behind them. They are impostors. They exploit the old myths of mankind, forgetting that nothing works without God. The Masters are twins to Zionists; the Zionists decided to arrange for Israel's return to the Promised Land as it was promised to their fathers. However, that return was to be done by God; while humans trying to do God's work are necessarily rebels.

Israel Shamir scrie minunat, de exemplu Florile Galileei. Israel Shamir este cenzurat, obligat a locui în Suedia, chiar fiind veteran al resbelului din 1967. Nu se pot afla pe YouTube video-uri cu Israel Shamir. De accea voi pune mai jos un film cu Neturei Karta, care spune ceea ce e drept despre Sionism:



One of the primary causes of modern day Anti-Semitism is the brutal occupation by Zionists of Palestine. There is today a growing number of people of the Jewish faith that recognize that Zionism is in fact counter to the fundamental tenets of the Torah, genuine Judaism and against the principles stated by the ancient Hebrew named Moses. La Voz de Aztlan joins our many Jewish friends who recognize this fact.

Lupi ciobăniţi sunt mincinoşi ciobani...

...Chiar dând iama în guzgani

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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Un singur membru din parlamentul britanic - odinioară un exemplu de adunătură omenească - s-a opus măcelului sistematic care s-a numit "resbelul contra terorismului".

Acum, când milioane de victime irakiene se adaugă altor milioane de copii irakieni decedaţi în deceniul de foamete la care "comunitatea internaţională" a condamnat poporul irakian, acei lupi în piei de oaie ies din nou din bârloage. Tocmai aceia care au făţărnicit atât ideea de parlament, inventând "cauzele" agresiunii contra unui popor întreg, atacă pe acest om curajos.

Omul curajos este Gorgeous George, iar scrisoarea lui contra cenzurii la care este supus în acest parlament de operetă este un model. Iată-l :

Gorgeous George (George Galloway, MP): Fala parlamentului britanic, membru acolo de 20 de ani, acum singur cu turma tuturor pe urma lui...

Letter to Speaker Martin
19 July 2007

Dear Mr Speaker,

You will have seen, with I hope as much alarm as me, the editorial in yesterday’s Sun newspaper, which – in a challenge to Parliamentary privilege I suggest – calls on the government to curtail my rights as a Member of Parliament in the debate on Monday on the report of the Standards and Privileges Committee.

Whilst I have every reason to believe that you will not allow me to be gagged in any way in my detailed defence against what is, in their own words, a debate on an inquiry of “unprecedented length and complexity” I am less confident about the conduct of the government whips.

I am seeking your protection, Mr Speaker, from any attempt to censor me in the important speech I intend to make, which will be watched and read by many people in our own country and abroad.

I do hope I can count on it. For if I were to be so censored in a debate on my exclusion from the House, in which I have sat for 20 years and from which I have never been excluded for any reason before, this would not only heap an injustice upon an injustice, it would plunge Parliament into the ninth circle of disrepute, earning it contempt from large numbers of people who wish to hear what I have to say in response to this report.

In view of the importance of this matter I am making this letter public.

Yours sincerely,

George Galloway MP

Iar iese Diogene din butoi!

Regele e gol!

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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Se pare, dacă apocrifa e valabilă, că Diogene umbla cu lampa sa de noapte arzând ziua în amiaza mare spre ruşinea democraţiilor. Căuta, chipurile, cu tot dinadinsul, un om... Slavă Domnului că mai sunt la Muldova omini... Pentru că şi azi mai avem norocul de a citi scrieri lucide. Iată azi, în Imperial Poker, pe neobositul Nebojsa Malic :

As the Imperial project lumbers along, leaving death and destruction in its wake, a truly terrible realization is emerging. It's not that hundreds of millions of people still buy the Imperial propaganda at face value – though that number is dwindling steadily – it's that the Empire doesn't care of [what - n. n.] they do or not. After all, what did the American public do when it became obvious that there were no Iraqi WMDs and the entire casus belli was a fraud? What could it do? The Emperor simply gave them the political equivalent of "Yeah, so what?" and kept on trucking.

Almost two decades of "humanitarian interventions" and "nation-building" that followed the end of the Cold War have significantly lowered the bar of what passed for acceptable in international relations.

(...)

It is this sort of hubris – a misguided, delusional belief that it is so powerful it can make up its own rules, create its own reality, defy the laws of physics, politics and nature with mere whims – that is at the root of Empire's rapidly approaching downfall.


Because it does not control the rules of the game; it has merely bent them about as far as they can go. No amount of willpower or conceit will make a High Card beat a Royal Flush.

The Empire is holding when it needs to fold; walking straight into doom where it ought to cut losses and run. It isn't just a watch George W. Bush lost in Albania, but perhaps the last vestiges of his ability to discern what is real from what is in his mind.

Even the unwaveringly loyal mainstream media found last week's Albanian excursion a bit much. One AP report on Bush's visit included the following comment by a California professor: "You know things aren't going well when you have to go to Albania to have people take to the streets and cheer you."

The game is up.

Asta este ! Iar răspunsul dat de Diogene împăratului care zice cum poate da orice pe lume săracului (dar mai ales îi poate lua lumina soarelui) ar trebui să smerească orice singur-mărit :

"Nu-mi lua ce nu-mi poţi da!"

Un nou blog frâncesc despre cazuistica medicală clipendiană

Clipendium este capitala frâncilor din vremea bunului rege Dagobert

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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A apărut o foaie medicală a autorului, în care sunt discutate cazuri rare, instructive sau numai stranii, cu tot secretul medical păstrat bine, cum se cuvine :



Cine mai e curios în lumea aceasta, poate citi foaia mea, în folosul tuturor celor care pricep sănătatea ca pe un întreg!

Gonirea Harului : Consensul Căderii

Din avantajele sistemului constituţional

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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Când consensul nostru politic, social (dar mai ales economic) trece prin abandonul individual al libertăţii, ne semnăm singuri pactul cu necuratul, sau direct, căderea. Când gonim harul, oare de ce mai cercetăm ştirile, şi aşa fabricate în manufacturile virtualizării noastre prin "globalizare"? Când nu căutăm Duh în lume, mai este aceasta, oare, o lume?

Negative. Nope. Nil. Nada. Niet ! Când gonim harul, suntem goi printre ciulini. Harul singur ne îmbrăca, pe vremea când ne sfiam de goliciune. Iar acum, când mărăcinii, scaieţii şi urzicile lumii puiesc din voia noastră, tocmai acum ne aflăm în treabă zvârlind cămeşile noastre frumoase, înflorite, ca armuri dulci ale cuviinţei, într-o orgie, sau mai degrabă urgie de uitare.



Aici mai sus am pus patru minute de documentar despre CFR-ul american, care este drumul de fier al resbelului, neruşinarea conceptului de contra-putere, groapa comună a presei libere, şi cleştele de plumb cu care suntem traşi de nas spre prăpastie, cu neamurile noastre, dar mai ales cu visele noastre cu tot. Dragii mei, fără har nu e lume! Mântuirea nu poate fi fără purtarea crucii în această lume, fără căutarea Duhului, fără iubirea aproapelui!

O pogorâre la iad

Carte gravă, minunat gândită!


by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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Vindecarea cere milă. Nu concurs de tăietori de lemne cu joagărul comunal. Discernământul smereniei, oare ce-are de-a face cu "mai mult, mai repede, mai bine, mai ieftin" ? După ce este singurul care n-a uitat nici în scris de sufletele din "cazul" Tanacu, părintele ierodiacon Savatie Baştovoi scrie încă o carte minunată. Citirea ei m-a lăsat "mască". Mi s-a făcut ruşine de zelul cu care mă numesc singur creştin, dar nu voiesc să ştiu - tocmai eu, păcătosul - de bietul aproapele meu de aici din noroi. Aproapele meu are nevoie în căderea lui dezastruoasă pentru societate, de măcar un pic de omenie pentru el. Mi s-a făcut ruşine citind, pentru că am văzut cum mirosul buburos al căderii este amestecat de-a dreptul cu dezinteresul meu vinovat pentru oricine e în drum spre noroi. Noi n-avem păcate mari sau mici, avem doar păcate de care plângem, ca să ni le spălăm, ori păcate de care nu vrem să ne spălăm. În toate cazurile Mântuitorul nu vrea moartea păcătosului. Există nădejde în cazurile cele mai disperate iar Părinţii n-au încetat nici o clipă să ne facă să gustăm minunea vie a iertării.

Ierodiacon Savatie Baştovoi, O pogorâre la iad - Despre perversiuni şi păcate în general. Apare cu binecuvântarea Prea Sfinţitului DORIMEDONT, episcop de Edineţ şi Briceni, Coperta : Păstorul cel bun (Catacombele lui Domiţian), ISBN 973-8215-74-9, Editura Marineasa, Timişoara, 2002, 108 pagini, BOBE-5279-REFS-0001. ( Cuprins : Două scrisori în apărarea homosexualilor, Despre pornografie, poluţii şi monahism, Despre inocenţa pierdută a sărutului, Ruşinea de dinaintea spovedaniei, De ce căderile sunt, uneori, şi bune ) : O carte gravă, scurtă, minunat gândită, perfect scrisă, întru totul unică în cultura noastră ortodoxă.

Nu putem lăsa nici cel mai mic loc, măcar de coadă, păcatului. Dar căderea aproapelui este căderea mea. Crezându-se un intrus sau fiind deznădăjduit, "bubosul" de aproape - întocmai ca mine păcătosul, şi mai urdurosul de bârnele putrede din ochii mei - suferă întocmai ca mine. Oricât s-ar crede el de unic, este doar omenesc în cădere. Iar eu iar l-am confundat, în zelul meu cel prost, pe păcătosul cel bubos cu păcatul cel urât mirositor. Am uitat că în noroi mai sunt, oricât de jos vor să intre, chiar jalnicii mei fraţi. Mâine pot fi eu în cădere dacă nu fac azi nimic!

Cred de asemeni că societatea le dă azi tot mai mult homosexualilor, le dă drepturi de minoritate, acum chiar dictate tuturor. Folosindu-se de ei, asta mai ales după ce le-a dat ghionturi, stigmate apoi i-a pus la izolare în ghetto-uri, societatea "civilă" îi pune în primele rânduri. Când scopurile de stricare a brumei de societate astfel "civilizată" care ne mai rămâne într-un neam ortodox, vor fi atinse, sunt sigur de altfel că manipulatorii guvernului mondial iar vor arunca primii cu pietrele în homosexuali. În toate cazurile uitarea omeniei e generală. Am decăzut de la nume la număr.

Părintele Savatie argumentează strălucit cazul homosexualilor ca oameni. El, care L-a văzut pe Hristos, nu aruncă pietre. El constată doar, cu vederea inimii, cu vederea cea adevărată, discriminantă doar prin smerenie, că ne mai trebuie smerenie. El arată hidra multiformă a păcatului, cu întinderile ei mereu mai perfide, cu multe capete pe care le vezi tăiate dintr-un loc doar ca să crească în altul... Mereu alte capete buburoase, ca orice crengi putrede, mustind în răul mucegaiului până ce la urmă, cu mintea noastră, ne amintim în fine de rădăcină.

Părintele Arsenie Papacioc zicea chiar, în întâmpinarea hulei prea maniheistă a unuia sau altuia dintre cei care i se plângea, căutând un pic de zidire, "păi, măi copii, oare ce ne-am face fără necurat ?". Marele duhovnic român - un sfânt ca Arsenie Boca, ne avertiza că "Pentru o alunecare a omului de la nume la număr, au să dea seama toţi înzestraţii lui Dumnezeu, cei cu daruri, cu răspunderi, cu măriri, cu puteri şi cu tot felul de haruri." Iar părintele Iustin afla în chiar căderea noastră, când uităm de neamul ortodox, iconomia aceasta :

"Stiţi ce sunt toate aceste rele? Ele nu sunt altceva decat un medicament foarte bun pentru sănătatea noastră sufletească. Cu cât un popor este mai încercat, cu cât un popor este mai împilat, mai strâns şi ţinut in stările acestea de ispitire, cu atât poporul acesta va fi mai inţelept şi mai destoinic in a invinge iadul. "

Părinţii, prin îmbunătăţirea vieţii lor, doar au strivit păcatul în orice formă ispitea, ca pe orice aspidă. Nimeni dintre cei care au scris, spre slava Domnului, şi cu toată ura pe care o aveau pentru păcat - cu care se luptă mereu chiar pentru noi - ei bine, chiar nimeni nu a ridicat piatra ca să cu dea cu ea în păcătos. De ce între timp să fiu eu acela care ar face acest gest tragic ? Dacă părintele Savatie nu se simte înjosit zicând "Eu însă mă socotesc suficient de întinat pentru a nu suferi nici o pierdere de pe urma contactului cu aceşti oameni, mai ales oameni" ca să se coboare să ajute orice suflete chinuite, atunci ce să zic eu, unul din numărul celor care ne "dăm mari", ori facem pe vindecătorii ? Gemând de locul în care a ajuns lumea, dar uitând că facem lumea chiar aşa cum este când nu ne mai atingem de ea, oare ce mai putem vindeca ?

Despre indignarea selectivă...

Sunt lacrimae rerum

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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Dreptcredincioşii, în lume cu Hristos, ca trupul cu sufletul lui, nu sunt orbi sau insensibili la lume.

Noi nu suntem orbi, pentru că avem peste tot în lume un ax al ei, care este doar Iisus Hristos Mântuitorul, Domnul, Dumnezeul nostru. Chiar de abia de mai ajungem să ne mai gândim la El în lucrul cel nebunesc al zilelor...

Ca pe covorul fermecat al copilăriei, oricând ne ducem de lângă El, imediat ne cuprinde fuga, în momentul chiar când am părăsit Axul. Prin mersul nebun al lumii, dacă ne luăm la trântă cu ea, iar nu cu noi înşine, suntem iute pe margini, dintr-o zvârlitură cu care nu ne mai putem pune, oricât de viteji am mai fi. De aceea ne trebuia a ne lupta doar cu păcatele noastre. Altfel, cum chiar pe covor ne ducem la vale, apoi cum, darămite, în prăpastia din lumea cea nebună...

Deci să nu mai stăm de loc în lume? Păi nebună o fi ea, dar e a noastră ! Am vrut-o astfel - fără Dumnezeu ! Am vrut-o făcută după poruncile ne-dumnezeieşti. Am vrut-o doar după nebuniile trecătoare ale tuturor celor omeneşti. Apoi astfel am făcut-o chiar noi ! Acum, de suntem singuri, căci este exclusiv sub răspunderea cea mai grea - tocmai aceea a celor care nu mai o au - ne mai mirăm... Oare nu noi am făcut-o astfel? Cu monstruozitatea aceasta a noastră, oare nu noi am făcut-o astfel ?

De ce să ne mai plângem deci când mergem mereu afară din Biserică pentru toate cele ale traiului ? Păi cu gândul acesta al nostru am lăsat lumea să se usuce! Noi, care abia ne mai plângem păcatele noastre ! Iar cu acelea atât de mari, oare cu ce ochi mai avem de plâns lumea toată ? Nu suntem noi de tot nebuni sau cu inimă împietrită ? Azi, când am ajuns de abia ne mai putem plânge pe noi înşine - nu „de milă” ci de păcate - mai suntem oare vrednici de mirare? Cerem iertare, dar cerem iertare fiind pradă unei rotative compresoare mereu tot mai apăsătoare, până la desensitivare. Pe această foaie sufletească produsă cu metode post-postmoderne de rotative compresoare se poate scrie orice minciună !

De aceea traficul cel mai pervers al dezinformării masive este acela al sentimentelor.

Suntem mereu gata să cedăm unui martelaj mediatic subliminal. De loc subtil, dar eficace, acest martelaj care nu mai e umbros, a ajuns a fi măsura exactă a decăderii noastre colective din demnitatea de oameni liberi: Emotivitatea noastră sătulă, uscată prin neîncredere, însetată prin lipsă de nădejde, prăfuită prin dragoste deturnată, de-abia dacă mai are a izbucni ici sau colo, întrucâtva mai de-adevărat, câte un pic, dar aiurea. Chiar aceste izbucuri sunt repertoriate de magiştrii din întuneric ai discursului public, pentru a fi canalizate spre interese mereu noi, mereu obscure - de obicei nimic altceva decât miasmele grele ale unor mlaştini înşelătoare.

Dintre tot mai rarii scriitori lucizi, care n-au încetat să privească lumea cu omenie, John Pilger este cel mai distins. Un australian care a priceput încă din timpul războiului din Vietnam ce se petrece în lume, un regizor care nu s-a oprit de fel să rostească adevărul, acest bătrân sincer cu scrisul curat, nu încetează să ne minuneze. Ca mergători la biserică, avem încă un exemplu de la o fire smerită, prin aceasta plină de un discernământ tainic, mereu delicat, care ne face de râs fumurile acelui balcanism gras, afumat, din care ne plăcea a da lecţii tuturora !


Iran May be the Greatest Crisis of Modern Times
by John Pilger

April 13, 2007
Copyright © 2007 John Pilger

The Israeli journalist Amira Hass describes the moment her mother, Hannah, was marched from a cattle train to the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. "They were sick and some were dying," she says. "Then my mother saw these German women looking at the prisoners, just looking. This image became very formative in my upbringing, this despicable ‘looking from the side'."

It is time we in Britain and other Western countries stopped looking from the side. We are being led towards perhaps the most serious crisis in modern history as the Bush-Cheney-Blair "long war" edges closer to Iran for no reason other than that nation's independence from rapacious America. The safe delivery of the 15 British sailors into the hands of Rupert Murdoch and his rivals (with tales of their "ordeal" almost certainly authored by the Ministry of Defense – until it got the wind up) is both a farce and a distraction. The Bush administration, in secret connivance with Blair, has spent four years preparing for "Operation Iranian Freedom." Forty-five cruise missiles are primed to strike. According to Russia's leading strategic thinker General Leonid Ivashov: "Nuclear facilities will be secondary targets... at least 20 such facilities need to be destroyed. Combat nuclear weapons may be used. This will result in the radioactive contamination of all the Iranian territory, and beyond."

One million Iraqis fill the streets of Najaf demanding that Bush and Blair get out of their homeland – that is the real news: not our nabbed sailor-spies, nor the political danse macabre of the pretenders to Blair's Duce delusions. Whether it is treasurer Gordon Brown, the paymaster of the Iraq bloodbath, or John Reid, who sent British troops to pointless deaths in Afghanistan, or any of the others who sat through cabinet meetings knowing that Blair and his acolytes were lying through their teeth, only mutual distrust separates them now. They knew about Blair's plotting with Bush. They knew about the fake 45-minute "warning." They knew about the fitting up of Iran as the next "enemy."

Declared Brown to the Daily Mail: "The days of Britain having to apologize for its colonial history are over. We should celebrate much of our past rather than apologize for it." In Late Victorian Holocausts, the historian Mike Davis documents that as many as 21 million Indians died unnecessarily in famines criminally imposed by British colonial policies. Moreover, since the formal demise of that glorious imperium, declassified files make it clear that British governments have borne "significant responsibility" for the direct or indirect deaths of between 8.6 million and 13.5 million people throughout the world from military interventions and at the hands of regimes strongly supported by Britain. The historian Mark Curtis calls these victims "unpeople." Rejoice! said Margaret Thatcher. Celebrate! says Brown. Spot the difference.

Brown is no different from Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and the other warmongering Democrats he admires and who support an unprovoked attack on Iran and the subjugation of the Middle East to "our interests" – and Israel's, of course. Nothing has changed since the US and Britain destroyed Iran's democratic government in 1953 and installed Reza Shah Pahlavi, whose regime had "the highest rate of death penalties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts and a history of torture" that was "beyond belief" (Amnesty).

Look behind the one-way moral screen and you will distinguish the Blairite elite by its loathing of the humane principles that mark a real democracy. They used to be discreet about this, but no more. Two examples spring to mind. In 2004, Blair used the secretive "royal prerogative" to overturn a high court judgment that had restored the very principle of human rights set out in Magna Carta to the people of the Chagos Islands, a British colony in the Indian Ocean. There was no debate. As ruthless as any dictator, Blair dealt his coup de grâce with the lawless expulsion of the islanders from their homeland, now a US military base, from which Bush has bombed Iraq and Afghanistan and will bomb Iran.

In the second example, only the degree of suffering is different. Last October, the Lancet published research by Johns Hopkins University in the US and al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad which calculated that 655,000 Iraqis had died as a direct result of the Anglo-American invasion. Downing Street officials derided the study as "flawed." They were lying. They knew that the chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defense, Sir Roy Anderson, had backed the survey, describing its methods as "robust" and "close to best practice," and other government officials had secretly approved the "tried and tested way of measuring mortality in conflict zones." The figure for Iraqi deaths is now estimated at close to a million – carnage equivalent to that caused by the Anglo-American economic siege of Iraq in the 1990s, which produced the deaths of half a million infants under the age of five, verified by Unicef. That, too, was dismissed contemptuously by Blair.

"This Labour government, which includes Gordon Brown as much as it does Tony Blair," wrote Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, "is party to a war crime of monstrous proportions. Yet our political consensus prevents any judicial or civil society response. Britain is paralyzed by its own indifference."

Such is the scale of the crime and of our "looking from the side." According to the Observer of 8 April, the voters' "damning verdict" on the Blair regime is expressed by a majority who have "lost faith" in their government. No surprise there. Polls have long shown a widespread revulsion to Blair, demonstrated at the last general election, which produced the second lowest turnout since the franchise. No mention was made of the Observer's own contribution to this national loss of faith. Once celebrated as a bastion of liberalism that stood against Anthony Eden's lawless attack on Egypt in 1956, the new right-wing, lifestyle Observer enthusiastically backed Blair's lawless attack on Iraq, having helped lay the ground with major articles falsely linking Iraq with the 9/11 attacks – claims now regarded even by the Pentagon as fake.

As hysteria is again fabricated, for Iraq, read Iran. According to the former US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, the Bush cabal decided to attack Iraq on "day one" of Bush's administration, long before 11 September 2001. The main reason was oil. O'Neill was shown a Pentagon document entitled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts," which outlined the carve-up of Iraq's oil wealth among the major Anglo-American companies. Under a law written by US and British officials, the Iraqi puppet regime is about to hand over the extraction of the largest concentration of oil on earth to Anglo-American companies.

Nothing like this piracy has happened before in the modern Middle East, where OPEC has ensured that oil business is conducted between states. Across the Shatt al-Arab waterway is another prize: Iran's vast oilfields. Just as nonexistent weapons of mass destruction or facile concerns for democracy had nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq, so nonexistent nuclear weapons have nothing to do with the coming American onslaught on Iran. Unlike Israel and the United States, Iran has abided by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which it was an original signatory, and has allowed routine inspections under its legal obligations. The International Atomic Energy Agency has never cited Iran for diverting its civilian program to military use. For the past three years, IAEA inspectors have said they have been allowed to "go anywhere." The recent UN Security Council sanctions against Iran are the result of Washington's bribery.

Until recently, the British were unaware that their government was one of the world's most consistent abusers of human rights and backers of state terrorism. Few Britons knew that the Muslim Brotherhood, the forerunner of al-Qaeda, was sponsored by British intelligence as a means of systematically destroying secular Arab nationalism, or that MI6 recruited young British Muslims in the 1980s as part of a $4bn Anglo-American-backed jihad against the Soviet Union known as "Operation Cyclone." In 2001, few Britons knew that 3,000 innocent Afghan civilians were bombed to death as revenge for the attacks of 11 September. No Afghans brought down the twin towers. Thanks to Bush and Blair, awareness in Britain and all over the world has risen as never before. When homegrown terrorists struck London in July 2005, few doubted that the attack on Iraq had provoked the atrocity and that the bombs which killed 52 Londoners were, in effect, Blair's bombs.

In my experience, most people do not indulge the absurdity and cruelty of the "rules" of rampant power. They do not contort their morality and intellect to comply with double standards and the notion of approved evil, of worthy and unworthy victims. They would, if they knew, grieve for all the lives, families, careers, hopes and dreams destroyed by Blair and Bush. The sure evidence is the British public's wholehearted response to the 2004 tsunami, shaming that of the government.

Certainly, they would agree wholeheartedly with Robert H. Jackson, chief of counsel for the United States at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders at the end of the Second World War. "Crimes are crimes," he said, "whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct which we would not be willing to have invoked against us."

As with Henry Kissinger and Donald Rumsfeld, who dare not travel to certain countries for fear of being prosecuted as war criminals, Blair as a private citizen may no longer be untouchable. On 20 March, Baltasar Garzón, the tenacious Spanish judge who pursued Augusto Pinochet, called for indictments against those responsible for "one of the most sordid and unjustifiable episodes in recent human history" – Iraq. Five days later, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, to which Britain is a signatory, said that Blair could one day face war-crimes charges.

These are critical changes in the way the sane world thinks – again, thanks to the Reich of Blair and Bush. However, we live in the most dangerous of times. On 6 April, Blair accused "elements of the Iranian regime" of "backing, financing, arming and supporting terrorism in Iraq." He offered no evidence, and the Ministry of Defense has none. This is the same Goebbels-like refrain with which he and his coterie, Gordon Brown included, brought an epic bloodletting to Iraq. How long will the rest of us continue looking from the side?

Nu mai mult decât o zi, frate Ioane ! Privim drept înainte, John Pilger ! Nici cu ochelari de cal, nici orbi la lumina laterală, nici uitând de propria mea bârnă ! Indignarea doar pentru câteva din cele ce fac lacrimile lumii, iar nu pentru toate cele ale ei de plâns, este nu atât metanie, cât strigare din piepturi de animale...