Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 04:25:42 +0800
Subject: Truth as propaganda
From: Malcolm Riddoch <riddoch-AT-central.murdoch.edu.au>


According to Noam Chomsky April 02, 2003:

"Since September 2002, the United States is the only country in the 
world where 60 per cent of the population believes that Iraq is an 
imminent threat  -   something that people do not believe even in 
Kuwait or Iran. Furthermore, about 50 per cent of the population now 
believes that Iraq was responsible for the attack on the World Trade 
Centre. This has happened since September 2002. In fact, after the 
September 11 attack, the figure was about 3 per cent. Government-media 
propaganda has managed to raise that to about 50 per cent".

Is this true? What are our US list members hearing? Chomsky ties this 
in with a propaganda campaign for the mid-term elections and for the 
Bush doctrine of 'preventive force' - the precedent for our new world 
order (the 'pax Americana') currently being enacted in Iraq.

Cheers,

Malcolm
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"Truth becomes rightness, in the sense of a commanding absorption by 
the one who commands into the compulsion of self-surpassment. All 
correctness is merely a rehearsal of and an opportunity for such 
surpassing; every fixation merely a foothold for dissolving all things 
in Becoming, hence a purchase for willing the permanentizing of 'chaos' 
... Truth is 'rightness', that is to say, supreme will to power. Only 
an unconditioned dominion over the earth by human beings will be right 
for such 'rightness'. Instituting planetary dominion, however, will 
itself be but the consequence of an unconditioned anthropomorphism" 
(Heidegger, Nietzsche III, pp. 173-174).



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