"It's a scintillating stratagem. Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words 'the American people' provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don't need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it's very comfortable. This does not apply of course to the 40 million people living below the poverty line and the 2 million men and women imprisoned in the vast gulag of prisons, which extends across the US.
"The United States no longer bothers about low intensity conflict. It no longer sees any point in being reticent or even devious. It puts its cards on the table without fear or favour. It quite simply doesn't give a damn about the United Nations, international law or critical dissent, which it regards as impotent and irrelevant. It also has its own bleating little lamb tagging behind it on a lead, the pathetic and supine Great Britain."
Harold Pinter died in December 2008, but his spirit is still with us. Pablo Neruda died about two weeks after the Chilean president Salvador Allende had, on September 11, 1973, been so brutally overthrown and probably killed [3] by the U.S. and CIA-supported forces of the dictator-to-be, the general Augusto Pinochet, and his fascist thugs. The following poem, written during the Spanish Civil War, could just as well serve as an illustration of the countries plundered and laid in ruins from U.S. invasions and brutality.Excerpt from 'I'm Explaining a Few Things' [4] by Pablo Neruda (1936)
...
And one morning all that was burning,
one morning the bonfires
leapt out of the earth
devouring human beings --
and from then on fire,
gunpowder from then on,
and from then on blood.
Bandits with planes and Moors,
bandits with finger-rings and duchesses,
bandits with black friars spattering blessings
came through the sky to kill children
and the blood of children ran through the streets
without fuss, like children's blood.
stones that the dry thistle would bite on and spit out,
vipers that the vipers would abominate!
Face to face with you I have seen the blood
of Spain tower like a tide
to drown you in one wave
of pride and knives!
From "Explico algunas cosas" por Pablo Neruda (1936)
...
Y una maà ±ana todo estaba ardiendo
y una maà ±ana las hogueras
salà an de la tierra
devorando seres,
y desde entonces fuego,
pà ³lvora desde entonces,
y desde entonces sangre.
Bandidos con aviones y con moros,
bandidos con sortijas y duquesas,
bandidos con frailes negros bendiciendo
venà an por el cielo a matar nià ±os,
y por las calles la sangre de los nià ±os
corrà a simplemente, como sangre de nià ±os.
Chacales que el chacal rechazarà a,
piedras que el cardo seco morderà a escupiendo,
và boras que las và boras odiaran!
Frente a vosotros he visto la sangre
de Espaà ±a levantarse
para ahogaros en una sola ola
de orgullo y de cuchillos!
Chile, Pablo Neruda's home country, has never truly recovered from the U.S. led coup against the democratically elected Salvador Allende who was trying, as a convinced humanitarian and socialist, to restore human rights, dignity and property to the desperately poor indigenous people of this nation, so cruelly plundered and exploited by European colonials ever since the days of Columbus.
All over Latin America, the bells of freedom for the oppressed people are ringing louder and louder. As the psychopaths in the castles of the global Empire are trembling, indigenous people are standing up straight, lifting from their backs the burden of their centuries-old submission. In this fight for freedom and human dignity they are supported by their own movements for justice and equality. In Venezuela, in Bolivia, in Ecuador, and all over Latin America, we are seeing the emergence of signs of liberation from the Global Empire. Voices of freedom are ringing loud and clear and the Empire is trembling.
The times are gone when the U.S. could steal whatever they would until now have claimed as their birthright. The brutal giant is toppling and very soon we will see the light of day emerging from the ruins of the plundered countries the Empire has been trampling to shreds, with corpses piling up in the hundreds of thousands and personal dignity and right to life being scoffed at. The universe will be reborn as a place where people have the power to decide for themselves the fate of their nation. The world will be a place where all people will have the right to a life in dignity with freedom from constant fear.
Notes:
[1] Nobel
Laureate Pinter Assails Bush, Blair - The speech
was prerecorded due to Pinter's poor health. "Pinter,
who has been treated for cancer in recent years, was supposed to have delivered
the traditional Nobel lecture in person, but was forced to cancel his trip to
Sweden because of poor health." (idem)
[4] Idem note [2]
Pinter died on 24 December, 2008 - "Harold Pinter: Nobel Prize-winning
playwright and poet who dominated British theatre for four decades'
[3] It has
never been ascertained whether Salvador Allende actually committed suicide as
his presidential palace was being
bombed by Pinochet's CIA-supported forces or whether he was killed by those
thugs. [4] Idem note [2]
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