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Cindy Sheehan
THE TIRELESS Cindy Sheehan has apparently joined the growing phalanx of prominent progressive doubters of the US government version of the killing of Osama bin Laden. The media have largely abandoned Cindy; she’s no longer front page news, as she frequently was when she rose to challenge George Bush’s wars.
Not that the mainstream media would ever give an authentic critic of the US imperial project a fair audience or a fair shake, but the fact remains that under Obama, most of the major outlets have tacitly made Cindy a non-person, and that, of course, includes a lot of liberal venues. Way to go boy and girls! That’s the American way to stamp out a pesky dissenter!
Cindy’s steady march to the left hasn’t helped, either. In a very short period of time this woman, wounded as deeply as only a parent can be by the loss of her child, has gone from superficially informed citizen to a formulated, dependable and ultra-lucid critic of the American capitalist system and its eternal wars. I’m using the word system, here, folks. Cindy sees past the circus put forth by the transient occupants of the highest offices in the land, has little patience with the claptrap dished out by the commentariat, and focuses with brave abandon on the rarely touched nature of the social arrangement so many apologists defend as “the American Way of Life.” She recognizes that while high officials may imprint their style momentarily on world events, they cannot, will not, and do not determine the actual dynamic or trajectory of the American socioeconomic system. It’s a lot bigger than them, and, besides, as politicians, they’re for the most part shills, not prime movers in the machinery of the system.
As media observers will surely agree, that kind of political clarity alone signifies automatic banishment from access to mass audiences in the United States. People in this country can gripe endlessly about the symptoms of the underlying disease , but never mention its root cause, the disease itself, capitalism. If you do, the ax is sure to follow. What did the feudalists used to call it? Lese majesté?
Below, in an interview with (of all people) Drew Pinsky, the celebrity shrink interpreter, she sets forth her rationale for disbelieving the official accounts of Osama’s departure from this Earth. Check it out.—Patrice Greanville
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2 comments
Beside the fact that she poses a normal question, and has like so many, doubts on this matter, i find it more striking to see how she is interviewed. This man is patronising her, he is treating her as if she is a nutcase. Saying in a way that all her actions, protests are a kind of therapeutic form to overcome the loss of her son. Unbelievable, shame on this kind of journalism!She is a very decent woman, she is just answering all these questions without correcting him.
Maybe of interest in all that context is the history of propaganda and government lies.
They are going back to ancient times, as a matter of fact.
There was a pretty good book written about that.
http://socratesbooks.blogspot.com/2011/05/when-governments-lie-history-of.html