The Mirror Has Become An Important Antidote

In Western Australia, Minerals Are Being Dug Up From Aboriginal Land And Shipped To China For A Profit Of A Billion Dollars A Week. In This, The Richest, 'booming' State, The Prisons Bulge With Stricken Aboriginal People, Including Juveniles Whose Mothers Stand At The Prison Gates, Pleading For Their Release. The Incarceration Of Black Australians Here Is Eight Times That Of Black South Africans During The Last Decade Of Apartheid.

This Is Total War. We Are Fighting A Variety Of Enemies. There Are Lots Of Them Out There. All This Talk About First We Are Going To Do Afghanistan, Then We Will Do Iraq... This Is Entirely The Wrong Way To Go About It. If We Just Let Our Vision Of The World Go Forth, And We Embrace It Entirely And We Dont Try To Piece Together Clever Diplomacy, But Just Wage A Total War... Our Children Will Sing Great Songs About Us Years From Now.

Whenever A Journalist Says To Me, "oh, You Don't Understand, I'm Impartial, I'm Objective," I Know What He's Saying. I Can Decode It Immediately. It Means He Channels The Official Truth. Almost Always. That Protestation Means He Speaks For A Consensual View Of The Establishment. This Is Internalized.

It Is Not Enough For Journalists To See Themselves As Mere Messengers Without Understanding The Hidden Agendas Of The Message And The Myths That Surround It.

It Is Time We Recognized That The Real Terrorism Is Poverty.