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<DIV align=left><SPAN class=750125607-15092001><FONT face=Arial>Dear
all:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=750125607-15092001><FONT face=Arial>I want to share
something I got from an Ulster catholic that has been engaged in the peace
movement as long as I have known her. I belive that this is the part of
truth that western world leaders, media, and many of us have difficulties in
taking responsibility for. I believe that it is possible to put the criminals in
front of the Haag international court of justice, or the new international
war-crimes court, speak aloud that we take responsibility for the atrocities our
countries have comitted (and still are comitting), showing mercy and atoning by
forgiving the debt of those countries that need it to get out of the morass of
impotence, lifting the sanctions off Iraks back, ... and investing more in real
peacework.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=750125607-15092001><FONT face=Arial>I am a newcomer
in the OST-community and still only haftrained by Birgit Williams and Romy
Shovelton. I hope I sometime will be able to afford to complete
it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=750125607-15092001><FONT face=Arial>From the
training so far, I got a method that allows me to work in accordance with
my deepest values. But I am still concerned about an issue. I have heard and
read that OST is a method that allows us to go further than to open for good
conversations, but I have not seen it done yet. I really want to believe
it. The discourse of love is good as long as it translates into loving
action. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=750125607-15092001></SPAN><SPAN
class=750125607-15092001><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=750125607-15092001><FONT face=Arial>This is like an
Ouroboros. As A. Einstein said, no problem can be solved from the level of
awareness that created it, but I have to add that all my actions to change that
level of awareness are taken from the same level of awareness I want to
change.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV align=left><SPAN class=750125607-15092001><FONT face=Arial>What more can I
do than just participating and opening spaces for dialogue about what really
matters? <SPAN class=750125607-15092001><FONT face=Arial>What can this community
do more than having heartfelt, deep sharing of our belief in humanity?
</FONT></SPAN>Anybody has any clue?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>Moliní - Managing Complexity</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Eugenio Moliní</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial><A
href="mailto:eugenio.molini@telia.com">eugenio.molini@telia.com</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>Mobil: +46 (0)70 5644668</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>Brunbarsvagen 8</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>11421 Stockholm</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>Sverige</FONT></DIV>
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<H2><!--headline--><FONT face=Arial>Pilger: Inevitable ring to the
unimaginable<!--endheadline--></FONT></H2><B><!--byline--><FONT
face=Arial>JOHN PILGER<!--endbyline--></FONT></B><FONT face=Arial> </FONT>
<P><!--story--><!-- This document was created from RTF source by rtftohtml version
2.7.5 --><FONT face=Arial>IF the attacks on America have their source in
the Islamic world, who can really be surprised? </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Two days earlier, eight people were killed in southern
Iraq when British and American planes bombed civilian areas. To my
knowledge, not a word appeared in the mainstream media in Britain. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>An estimated 200,000 Iraqis, according to the Health
Education Trust in London, died during and in the immediate aftermath of
the slaughter known as the Gulf War. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>This was never news that touched public consciousness
in the west. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>At least a million civilians, half of them children,
have since died in Iraq as a result of a medieval embargo imposed by the
United States and Britain. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>In Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Mujadeen, which gave
birth to the fanatical Taliban, was largely the creation of the CIA.
</FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>The terrorist training camps where Osama bin Laden,
now "America's most wanted man", allegedly planned his attacks, were built
with American money and backing. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>In Palestine, the enduring illegal occupation by
Israel would have collapsed long ago were it not for US backing. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Far from being the terrorists of the world, the
Islamic peoples have been its victims - principally the victims of US
fundamentalism, whose power, in all its forms, military, strategic and
economic, is the greatest source of terrorism on earth. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>This fact is censored from the Western media, whose
"coverage" at best minimises the culpability of imperial powers. Richard
Falk, professor of international relations at Princeton, put it this way:
"Western foreign policy is presented almost exclusively through a
self-righteous, one-way legal/moral screen (with) positive images of
Western values and innocence portrayed as threatened, validating a
campaign of unrestricted political violence." </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>That Tony Blair, whose government sells lethal weapons
to Israel and has sprayed Iraq and Yugoslavia with cluster bombs and
depleted uranium and was the greatest arms supplier to the genocidists in
Indonesia, can be taken seriously when he now speaks about the "shame" of
the "new evil of mass terrorism" says much about the censorship of our
collective sense of how the world is managed. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>One of Blair's favourite words - "fatuous" - comes to
mind. Alas, it is no comfort to the families of thousands of ordinary
Americans who have died so terribly that the perpetrators of their
suffering may be the product of Western policies. Did the American
establishment believe that it could bankroll and manipulate events in the
Middle East without cost to itself, or rather its own innocent people?
</FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>The attacks on Tuesday come at the end of a long
history of betrayal of the Islamic and Arab peoples: the collapse of the
Ottoman Empire, the foundation of the state of Israel, four Arab-Israeli
wars and 34 years of Israel's brutal occupation of an Arab nation: all, it
seems, obliterated within hours by Tuesday's acts of awesome cruelty by
those who say they represent the victims of the West's intervention in
their homelands. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>"America, which has never known modern war, now has
her own terrible league table: perhaps as many as 20,000 victims." </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>As Robert Fisk points out, in the Middle East, people
will grieve the loss of innocent life, but they will ask if the newspapers
and television networks of the west ever devoted a fraction of the present
coverage to the half-a-million dead children of Iraq, and the 17,500
civilians killed in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon. The answer is no.
There are deeper roots to the atrocities in the US, which made them almost
inevitable. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>It is not only the rage and grievance in the Middle
East and south Asia. Since the end of the cold war, the US and its
sidekicks, principally Britain, have exercised, flaunted, and abused their
wealth and power while the divisions imposed on human beings by them and
their agents have grown as never before. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>An elite group of less than a billion people now take
more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>In defence of this power and privilege, known by the
euphemisms "free market" and "free trade", the injustices are legion: from
the illegal blockade of Cuba, to the murderous arms trade, dominated by
the US, to its trashing of basic environmental decencies, to the assault
on fragile economies by institutions such as the World Trade Organisation
that are little more than agents of the US Treasury and the European
central banks, and the demands of the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund in forcing the poorest nations to repay unrepayable debts;
to a new US "Vietnam" in Colombia and the sabotage of peace talks between
North and South Korea (in order to shore up North Korea's "rogue nation"
status). </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Western terror is part of the recent history of
imperialism, a word that journalists dare not speak or write. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>The expulsion of the population of Diego Darcia in the
1960s by the Wilson government received almost no press coverage. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Their homeland is now an American nuclear arms dump
and base from which US bombers patrol the Middle East. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>In Indonesia, in 1965/6, a million people were killed
with the complicity of the US and British governments: the Americans
supplying General Suharto with assassination lists, then ticking off names
as people were killed. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>"Getting British companies and the World Bank back in
there was part of the deal", says Roland Challis, who was the BBC's south
east Asia correspondent. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>British behaviour in Malaya was no different from the
American record in Vietnam, for which it proved inspirational: the
withholding of food, villages turned into concentration camps and more
than half a million people forcibly dispossessed. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>In Vietnam, the dispossession, maiming and poisoning
of an entire nation was apocalyptic, yet diminished in our memory by
Hollywood movies and by what Edward Said rightly calls cultural
imperialism. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>In Operation Phoenix, in Vietnam, the CIA arranged the
homicide of around 50,000 people. As official documents now reveal, this
was the model for the terror in Chile that climaxed with the murder of the
democratically elected leader Salvador Allende, and within 10 years, the
crushing of Nicaragua. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>All of it was lawless. The list is too long for this
piece. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Now imperialism is being rehabilitated. American
forces currently operate with impunity from bases in 50 countries. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>"Full spectrum dominance" is Washington's clearly
stated aim. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Read the documents of the US Space Command, which
leaves us in no doubt. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>In this country, the eager Blair government has
embarked on four violent adventures, in pursuit of "British interests"
(dressed up as "peacekeeping"), and which have little or no basis in
international law: a record matched by no other British government for
half a century. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>What has this to do with this week's atrocities in
America? If you travel among the impoverished majority of humanity, you
understand that it has everything to do with it. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>People are neither still, nor stupid. They see their
independence compromised, their resources and land and the lives of their
children taken away, and their accusing fingers increasingly point north:
to the great enclaves of plunder and privilege. Inevitably, terror breeds
terror and more fanaticism. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>But how patient the oppressed have been. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>It is only a few years ago that the Islamic
fundamentalist groups, willing to blow themselves up in Israel and New
York, were formed, and only after Israel and the US had rejected outright
the hope of a Palestinian state, and justice for a people scarred by
imperialism. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Their distant voices of rage are now heard; the daily
horrors in faraway brutalised places have at last come home. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial>* John Pilger is an award-winning, campaigning
journalist. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial><I>-Sept 13th</I> </FONT>
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