POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Terrorism?
What a joke.
The United States just murdered a number of innocent Yemenis
with a drone strike.
That is indeed terror, state terror.
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There is not, and never has been, an organization called al
Qaeda.
We have the words of several important statesmen, including
a former British foreign minister, that the word was only used inside the
American government as a catch-all for "bad guys" in certain regions
of the world.
The word actually means “hole” or “sewer.” Can you imagine a
secret fierce group calling itself “sewer”?
Yet the continued use of the term - repeated over and over
in the press - undoubtedly lends weight to vague assertions about threats, and
that is precisely why Washington continues to use this ridiculous language.
So why does the press keep repeating the nonsense?
The answer is found in the degree of genuine independence of
thought and investigation exhibited by our mainline press, and that is simply
not much.
It is not an organization. It does not send e-mails. It does
not write press releases. If indeed it were an organization and it did these
things from time to time, does any thinking person not understand that NSA and
others would locate them quickly, causing the launch of drones in minutes?
But there are some pretty nasty people out there in the
world. The United States has cynically used some of them again and again to get
something it wants, the latest being the effort to topple the government of
Syria.
It used them in
Afghanistan – twice: once to fight the Russians in the 1980s, and a second time
to defeat the Taleban government and carry out acts of terror like the murder
of thousands of Taleban prisoners - and in Libya and in other places.
The United States in using these people and heavily
assisting them – aided by its friends Israel and Turkey – is responsible for more
terror in Syria alone than any so-called terrorist group could conceive of
doing on its own anywhere.
