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22 July 2005, 13:45

The underlying thesis of this article is complete garbage. Poverty and hunger in the third world is a result of their indifferent governments.

Been there seen it.

What you have seen is poverty caused by overlords fawned to and supported by the Western powers, which includes much of Europe.

Today Iraq is such a telling example of that:

Can we possibly see Africa worse than it is now, with all our intervention?

If we had not colonized the countries (Latin America only daring to break free now of U.S. influence) and then departed when it suited us, stripping the land of its riches, leaving behind a people who knew not where they were.

And to blame people for not usurping their no-good rulers once we left, which in true in influence we never did because it suited us to have these despots in power, well we might look to the U.S. and U.K. governments today as a good example of how people are either powerless to do anything, or disinterested in their children’s future. For the actions of our leaders today will have telling consequences in the future and they will not be pleasant.

What has happened to Iraq in the the previous century and indeed the manipulation of the Middle East by the West is criminal to say the least - if there were only a body who could adjudicate such matters and have the power to correct the harm.

’Been there seen it’ Learn about history. The facts are available. Learn the causes of what you are seeing.

And perhaps you might glance then towards the future. For the past and present suppression by a class system (including its ownership of press, television and radio that most are guided by) this suppression will be nothing to the future horrors.

The dominant have more and more tools to manage their powers and have yet to focus to the own people the extent of this dominance, for they do not wish to lose power and it will become real.

Those in the ’turned off television, press and talk radio mode’ watch helplessly as power from the new ’party’ ’class’ ’rulership’ call it what you will, descends with an ever tightening grip.

Orwell was a few years too early. But his assessment (Working as an insider in the BBC and seeing how even the then socialist Labour party operated) is proving his works to be, in their most general and shocking terms, correct.

"Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this.

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.

We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.

Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.

What pure power means you will understand presently.

We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing.

All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.

The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.

They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.

We are not like that.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Power is not a means, it is an end.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution.

The object of torture is torture.

The object of power is power.

Now do you begin to understand me?"

George Orwell 1984

History of Iraq — UK and US imperial interventions

False memories — George Orwell wisdom