Jeremy Corbyn krijgt echt belangrijke vredesprijs >> aandacht van de reguliere media: nul komma nada...

Gisteren bracht Stan van Houcke een artikel van RT (RT, je weet wel, het mediaorgaan dat volgens de westerse reguliere media en de meeste westerse politici 'fake news' dan wel Russische propaganda brengt.....). Hierin het nieuws dat Jeremy Corbyn, Noam Chomsky en Japanse vredesactivisten de Sean MacBride Peace Prize 2017 hebben gewonnen.

Vreemd genoeg werd dit bericht door niet één regulier westers mediaorgaan gebracht..... Wel zeuren over 'fake news' of manipulatie door mediaorganen als RT en Sputnik (zonder een flinter van bewijs), maar als er een prijs wordt gewonnen door mensen die zich verzetten tegen de huidige inhumane neoliberale status quo, zijn diezelfde mediaorganen en politici niet thuis, laat staan dat men er over bericht....* Mensen dat is pas echt manipulatie van het volk, zoals die mediaorganen en politici op dagelijkse basis het volk voorliegen en belazeren........

Onder het artikel nog de reactie van Ron, zoals die op het blog van Stan van Houcke is te lezen. Ron gaat hier in op het toekennen van de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede, die dit jaar naar ICAN ging. Zie wat de directeur op durfde te lepelen n.a.v. die toekenning, een tenenkrommend en schandalig praatje..... Ach ja, als je de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede krijgt, heb je de grote kans een oorlogsmisdadiger te zijn, in dat rijtje misstaat ICAN niet, althans als je de woorden van Beatrice Fihn, de directeur van die organisatie leest......

Jeremy Corbyn and Noam Chomsky win peace prize amid media silence

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during a United Nations panel in Geneva, Switzerland © Pierre Albouy / Reuters

Published time: 10 Dec, 2017 23:56Edited time: 11 Dec, 2017 09:28

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been awarded the Sean MacBride Peace Prize along with Noam Chomsky and Japanese anti-military base activists**, yet the award received scant coverage in the British media.

The International Peace Bureau presents the Sean MacBride Peace Prize to individuals, organizations or movements for their work in the areas of peace, disarmament and human rights.

Corbyn, along with renowned scholar Noam Chomsky and the All Okinawa Council Against Henoko New Base, were deemed this year’s recipients. Corbyn received his award in Geneva  Friday.

The Labour leader was recognized for his “sustained and powerful political work for disarmament and peace.” His longtime work with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the UK and the Stop the War Campaign was commended, as was his efforts for peace as a politician.

Margaret Hollins@HollinsMargaret

Interesting to note IPB's award of MacBride Peace Prize to Jeremy Corbyn "for his sustained and powerful political work for disarmament and peace" not widely reported in UK. Perhaps inconvenient for national party politics? http://www.ipb.org/events/macbride-peace-prize-to-jeremy-corbyn/ …

9:16 PM - Dec 10, 2017

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Luther Blissett@BlissettCarl

#BBCNews is it true Jeremy Corbyn won an international peace prize this weekend, just I'm yet to see/hear it on any of your news programs

8:25 PM - Dec 10, 2017

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The UK media may not be reporting @jeremycorbyn's honour this week but the Swiss media is.
"British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is awarded the Sean MacBride Award by the International Peace Bureau in Geneva"https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/2017/12/07/jeremy-corbyn-prix-determination-courage …

2:14 PM - Dec 10, 2017

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“As a member of parliament in the UK he has, for 34 years continually taken that work for justice, peace and disarmament to the political arena both in and outside of Parliament,” the International Peace Bureau said. “He has ceaselessly stood by the principles, which he has held for so long, to ensure true security and well-being for all – for his constituents, for the citizens of the UK and for the people of the world.”

“As leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition he continues to carry his personal principles into his political life – stating openly that he could not press the nuclear button and arguing strongly for a re-orientation of priorities – to cut military spending and spend instead on health, welfare and education.”

The Japanese All Okinawa Council Against Henoko New Base was recognized for its commitment to close the Futemna Marine Air Base and its opposition to building another military base in Henoko. The group was awarded its prize in Barcelona at the end of November.

Chomsky was recognized for his decades-long efforts supporting peace, his anti-imperialist stance and his criticism of militarist US foreign policy. He will be presented with his award in the US next year.

Emmanuel Deonna@DeonnaEmmanuel

Jeremy Corbin receives the Sean McBride Prize for Peace in Geneva!@VilleDeGeneve #InternationalPeaceBureau#Forumdémocratiquemondial

9:43 PM - Dec 8, 2017 · Geneva, Switzerland

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*  Opvallend: de laatste week merk ik, dat je bij het zoeken in het Engels op Google, alleen nog resultaten te zien krijgt, die verwijzen naar de reguliere westerse (massa-) media.........

** Als ik me niet vergis de hele gemeente/stadsraad van Okinawa, die zich inzet voor de sluiting van een luchtmachtbasis van de VS en zich bezighoudt met het tegenhouden van een nieuwe VS basis in Henoko, de eerste basis wordt overigens als de gevaarlijkste ter wereld beschouwd.......

Hier de reactie van Ron onder dit bericht op het blog van Stan van Houcke (lezen mensen!):

Ron11 december 2017 om 16:26:00 CET

Nee, dan de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede die gaat dit jaar naar de bizarre trendy lobbyclub ICAN,die strijd voor het uitbannen van kernwapens.

De onnozele directeur Beatrice Fihn van NGO-coalitie ICAN zei afgelopen zaterdag in een interview in de Volkskrant o.a. letterlijk het volgende:

"De kernbom is een erg onhandig,ouderwets wapen dat niet geschikt is voor moderne oorlogvoering(?)...
Effectieve vernietiging(?) bereik je nu met precisieraketten, hoogwaardige technologische cyberoorlogsvoering........

Ze (de VS) hebben betere wapens.Wapens die efficiënter werken en veiliger voor hun bondgenoten......"
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/zij-krijgt-dit-weekend-de-nobelpijs-voor-de-vrede-de-kernbom-is-een-onhandig-ouderwets-wapen~a4544219/

.....so much for echte Vrede.........

Hier de link naar het volledige rapport bij de Séan MacBride Peace Prize 2017
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Zie ook:
'The Guardian weigert brief van meer dan 200 Joodse vrouwen, waar dit medium loog en blijft liegen over 'antisemitisme' Corbyn' (en zie de links in dat bericht)

'Jeremy Corbyn weggezet als nazi in fake news 'antisemitisme schandaal' >> haatzaaien met een 'groter doel''

'The Corbyn Doctrine' (via blog Stan van Houcke)

'PAX blij met toekenning Nobelprijs voor de Vrede aan ICAN............'

'Bernhard Hammelburg veegt Nobelprijswinnaar Beatrice Fihn de mantel uit, zelfs voordat hij wist wat ze te berde bracht.......'

VS: China is een gevaar, terwijl China, uh de VS dat land omsingeld heeft met 400 bases...........

Afgelopen vrijdag in de tweede editie van Information Clearing House, een interview met John Pilger, o.a. filmmaker. Zijn nieuwe film, 'The Coming War on China', handelt o.a. over de agressie van de VS tegen China en de VS staatspropaganda (inclusief haat- en angstzaaien), die één op één wordt overgenomen door de reguliere media in de VS (en langzaam maar zeker ook die in de rest van het westen), propaganda waarmee China als een bedreiging wordt neergezet....... 

Volgens Pilger en zoals u zelf wellicht al elders heeft gezien of gelezen, wordt zoals gezegd China als een bedreiging afgeschilderd voor de VS, in de reguliere media aldaar......... Terwijl tegelijkertijd, de VS met maar liefst 400 militaire bases China omsingeld houdt, iets wat uiteraard geen aandacht krijgt in diezelfde media. Zoals dat hier gaat, als de reguliere mediaorganen het hebben over Oekraïne en De Krim, de feiten worden welbewust achtergehouden. Zo spreekt men nog steeds over de annexatie van De Krim, terwijl dat land in een door internationale waarnemers goedgekeurd en geldig referendum massaal koos voor aansluiting bij Rusland!*

Hier het artikel (waaronder u voor een vertaling kan klikken >> dutch): 

"Confronting China"

By John Pilger

October 28, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - 

TJC: Please tell us about your new film, The Coming War on China.

JP: The Coming War on China is my 60th film and perhaps one of the most urgent. It continues the theme of illuminating the imposition of great power behind a facade of propaganda as news.  In 2011, President Obama announced a ‘pivot to Asia’ of US forces: almost two-thirds of American naval power would be transferred to Asia and the Pacific by 2020.
The undeclared rationale for this was the ‘threat’ from China, by some measure now the greatest economic power. The Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, says US policy is to confront those ‘who see America’s dominance and want to take that away from us’.
The film examines power in both countries and how nuclear weapons, in American eyes, are the bedrock of its dominance. In its first ‘chapter’, the film reveals how most of the population of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific were unwittingly made into nuclear guinea pigs in a programme whose secrets – and astonishing archive – are related to the presence of a missile base now targeting China. The Coming War on China will be released in cinemas in the UK on December 1st and broadcast on ITV (in the UK) on December 6th.

TJC: How do you assess Australia’s role in America’s ‘Pivot to Asia’?

JP: Australia is virtually the 51st state of the US.  Although China is Australia’s biggest trader, on which much of the national economy relies, ‘confronting China’ is the diktat from Washington. The Australian political establishment, especially the military and intelligence agencies, are fully integrated into what is known as the ‘alliance’, along with the dominant Murdoch media. I often feel a certain sadness about the way my own country – with all its resources and opportunities – seems locked into such an unnecessary, dangerous obsequious role in the world. If the ‘pivot’ proceeds, Australia could find itself fighting, yet again, a great power’s war.

TJC: With regards to the British and American media, how can the US get away with selling China as a 
threat when it is encircling China?

JP: That’s a question that goes to the heart of modern-day propaganda. China is encircled by a ‘noose’ of some 400 US bases, yet the news has ignored this while concentrating on the ‘threat’ of China building airstrips on disputed islets in the South China Sea, clearly as a defence to a US Navy blockade.

TJC: Obama’s visit to Japan, and particularly to Hiroshima, was a really cynical act. What was your impression of Japan and the political situation there?

JP: Japan is an American colony in all but name – certainly in terms of its relationship with the rest of the world and especially China. The historian Bruce Cumings explores this in an interview in the film.  Within the constraints of American dominance, indeed undeterred by Washington, Japan’s current prime minister Shinzo Abe has developed an extreme nationalist position, in which contrition for Japanese actions in the Second World War is anathema and the post-war ‘peace constitution’ is likely to be changed.

Abe has gone as far as boasting that Japan will use nuclear weapons if it wants. In any US conflict with China, Japan – which last year announced its biggest ever ‘defence’ budget – would play a critical role. There are 32 US military installations on the Japanese island of Okinawa, facing China. However, there is a sense in modern Asia that power in the world has indeed moved east and peaceful ‘Asian solutions’ to regional animosities are possible.

TJC: Do you think the new trade and investment deals like the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and especially the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) will affect China’s business operations?

JP: It’s difficult to say, but I doubt it. What is remarkable about the rise of China is the way it has built, almost in the blink of an eye, a trade, investment and banking structure that rivals that of the Bretton Woods institutions. Unknown to many of us, China is developing its ‘New Silk Road’ to Europe at an astonishing pace. China’s response to threats from Washington is a diplomacy that’s tied to this development, and which includes a burgeoning alliance with Russia.

T.J. Coles is the author of Britain’s Secret Wars (2016, Clairview Books).

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* Die internationale waarnemers worden nu meer en meer afgeschilderd als onbetrouwbaar. Zo hoorde ik vorige week een discussie op BBC World Service, waar men sprak over waarnemers als onbetrouwbaar..... Tja, zo kan je alsnog als agressor zeggen, dat democratische verkiezingen in een land dat je toch al wilt aanvallen, ongeldig zijn!!

Zie ook: 'Deutschland verschärft die Gangart gegen China' (Duitsland stopt met toenadering tot China; met grote instemming van de VS terreurentiteit)

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor het label 'Cumings'.

VS bezig met optuigen van en oefenen op Wereldoorlog III........

Het volgende artikel van John Pilger vond ik op het blog van Stan van Houcke, die het van Global Research haalde. Hierin betoogt Pilger, dat de Derde Wereldoorlog al is begonnen, al is dit nu nog een propagandaoorlog met leugens en afleiding van uiterst dubieuze zaken, waarbij de reguliere media de slippendragers zijn van de neoliberale machthebbers.......

Pilger wijst op de VS dat een ongelofelijk aantal militaire- en raketbases (of basissen, zoals u wilt) over de wereld heeft en intussen Rusland en China omsingeld heeft met deze bases...... Ook de hypocriete leugens van Obama over het kernwapenvrij maken van de wereld, wordt grondig onderuit gehaald door Pilger.

Vandaar ook dat Pilger aandacht aan de VS presidentsverkiezingen schenkt en wijst op het gevaar dat Hillary Clinton als president zal vormen voor de 'wereldvrede........' Voorts wijst Pilger op de enorme budgetten aan belastinggeld, die het westen o.l.v. de VS uitgeven aan defensie, bijvoorbeeld Australië dat 195 miljard dollar aan defensie spendeert........... De VS en de NAVO landen geven jaarlijks alleen al 7 keer meer uit aan defensie, dan Rusland en China samen.........

A World War Has Begun. Break the Silence

This is an edited version of an address by John Pilger at the University of Sydney, entitled A World War Has Begun:

I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, “Where is that?” If I offer a clue by referring to “Bikini”, they say, “You mean the swimsuit.”

Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island.

Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 — the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve years.

Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated.  Palm trees grow in a strange grid formation. Nothing moves. There are no birds. The headstones in the old cemetery are alive with radiation. My shoes registered “unsafe” on a Geiger counter.

Standing on the beach, I watched the emerald green of the Pacific fall away into a vast black hole. This was the crater left by the hydrogen bomb they called “Bravo”. The explosion poisoned people and their environment for hundreds of miles, perhaps forever.

On my return journey, I stopped at Honolulu airport and noticed an American magazine called Women’s Health. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the headline: “You, too, can have a bikini body.”  A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had interviewed women who had very different “bikini bodies”; each had suffered thyroid cancer and other life-threatening cancers. Unlike the smiling woman in the magazine, all of them were impoverished: the victims and guinea pigs of a rapacious superpower that is today more dangerous than ever.

I relate this experience as a warning and to interrupt a distraction that has consumed so many of us.  The founder of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, described this phenomenon as “the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the habits and opinions” of democratic societies. He called it an “invisible government”.

How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile.

In 2009, President Obama stood before an adoring crowd in the centre of Prague, in the heart of Europe. He pledged himself to make “the world free from nuclear weapons”. People cheered and some cried. A torrent of platitudes flowed from the media. Obama was subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

It was all fake. He was lying.

The Obama administration has built more nuclear weapons, more nuclear warheads, more nuclear delivery systems, more nuclear factories.  Nuclear warhead spending alone rose higher under Obama than under any American president. The cost over thirty years is more than $1 trillion.

A new mini nuclear bomb is planned. It is known as the B61 Model 12. There has never been anything like it. General James Cartwright, a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said, “Going smaller [makes using this nuclear] weapon more thinkable.”

In the last eighteen months, the greatest build-up of military forces since World War Two — led by the United States — is taking place along Russia’s western frontier.  Not since Hitler invaded the Soviet Union have foreign troops presented such a demonstrable threat to Russia.

Ukraine – once part of the Soviet Union –  has become a CIA theme park. Having orchestrated a coup in Kiev, Washington effectively controls a regime that is next door and hostile to Russia: a regime rotten with Nazis, literally. Prominent parliamentary figures in Ukraine are the political descendants of the notorious OUN and UPA fascists. They openly praise Hitler and call for the persecution and expulsion of the Russian speaking minority.

This is seldom news in the West, or it is inverted to suppress the truth.

In Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — next door to Russia – the US military is deploying combat troops, tanks, heavy weapons. This extreme provocation of the world’s second nuclear power is met with silence in the West.

What makes the prospect of nuclear war even more dangerous is a parallel campaign against China.

Seldom a day passes when China is not elevated to the status of a “threat”.  According to Admiral Harry Harris, the US Pacific commander, China is “building a great wall of sand in the South China Sea”.

What he is referring to is China building airstrips in the Spratly Islands, which are the subject of a dispute with the Philippines – a dispute without priority until Washington pressured and bribed the government in Manila and the Pentagon launched a propaganda campaign called “freedom of navigation”.

What does this really mean?  It means freedom for American warships to patrol and dominate the coastal waters of China.  Try to imagine the American reaction if Chinese warships did the same off the coast of California.

I made a film called The War You Don’t See, in which I interviewed distinguished journalists in America and Britain: reporters such as Dan Rather of CBS, Rageh Omar of the BBC, David Rose of theObserver.

All of them said that had journalists and broadcasters done their job and questioned the propaganda that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction; had the lies of George W. Bush and Tony Blair not been amplified and echoed by journalists, the 2003 invasion of Iraq might not have happened, and  hundreds of thousands of men, women and children would be alive today.

The propaganda laying the ground for a war against Russia and/or China is no different in principle. To my knowledge, no journalist in the Western “mainstream” — a Dan Rather equivalent, say –asks why China is building airstrips in the South China Sea.

The answer ought to be glaringly obvious. The United States is encircling China with a network of bases, with ballistic missiles, battle groups, nuclear -armed bombers.

This lethal arc extends from Australia to the islands of the Pacific, the Marianas and the Marshalls and Guam, to the Philippines, Thailand, Okinawa, Korea and  across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India. America has hung a noose around the neck of China. This is not news. Silence by media; war by media.

In 2015, in high secrecy, the US and Australia staged the biggest single air-sea military exercise in recent history, known as Talisman Sabre. Its aim was to rehearse an Air-Sea Battle Plan, blocking sea lanes, such as the Straits of Malacca and the Lombok Straits, that cut off China’s access to oil, gas and other vital raw materials from the Middle East and Africa.

In the circus known as the American presidential campaign, Donald Trump is being presented as a lunatic, a fascist.  He is certainly odious; but he is also a media hate figure.  That alone should arouse our scepticism.

Trump’s views on migration are grotesque, but no more grotesque than those of David Cameron. It is not Trump who is the Great Deporter from the United States, but the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama.

According to one prodigious liberal commentator, Trump is “unleashing the dark forces of violence” in the United States. Unleashing them?

This is the country where toddlers shoot their mothers and the police wage a murderous war against black Americans. This is the country that has attacked and sought to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democracies, and bombed from Asia to the Middle East, causing the deaths and dispossession of millions of people.

No country can equal this systemic record of violence. Most of America’s wars (almost all of them against defenceless countries) have been launched not by Republican presidents but by liberal Democrats: Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.

In 1947, a series of National Security Council directives described the paramount aim of American foreign policy as “a world substantially made over in [America's] own image”.  The ideology was messianic Americanism. We were all Americans. Or else. Heretics would be converted, subverted, bribed, smeared or crushed.

Donald Trump is a symptom of this, but he is also a maverick. He says the invasion of Iraq was a crime; he doesn’t want to go to war with Russia and China. The danger to the rest of us is not Trump, but Hillary Clinton. She is no maverick. She embodies the resilience and violence of a system whose vaunted “exceptionalism” is totalitarian with an occasional liberal face.

As presidential  election day draws near, Clinton will be hailed as the first female president, regardless of her crimes and lies – just as Barack Obama was lauded as the first black president and liberals swallowed his nonsense about “hope”. And the drool goes on.

Described by the Guardian columnist Owen Jones as “funny, charming, with a coolness that eludes practically every other politician”, Obama the other day sent drones to slaughter 150 people in Somalia. He kills people usually on Tuesdays, according to the New York Times, when he is handed a list of candidates for death by drone. So cool.

In the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton threatened to “totally obliterate” Iran with nuclear weapons.  As Secretary of State under Obama, she participated in the overthrow of the democratic government of Honduras. Her contribution to the destruction of Libya in 2011 was almost gleeful. When the Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi, was publicly sodomised with a knife – a murder made possible by American logistics – Clinton gloated over his death: “we came, we saw, he died.”

One of Clinton’s closest allies is Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of State, who has attacked young women for not supporting “Hillary”. This is the same Madeleine Albright  who infamously celebrated on TV the death of half a million Iraqi children as “worth it”.

Among Clinton’s biggest backers are the Israel lobby and the arms companies that fuel the violence in the Middle East.  She and her husband have received a fortune from Wall Street. And yet, she is about to be ordained the women’s candidate, to see off the evil Trump, the official demon. Her supporters include distinguished feminists: the likes of Gloria Steinem in the US and Anne Summers in Australia.

A generation ago, a post-modern cult now known as “identity politics” stopped many intelligent, liberal-minded people examining the causes and individuals they supported — such as the fakery of Obama and Clinton;  such as bogus progressive movements like Syriza in Greece, which betrayed the people of that country and allied with their enemies.

Self absorption, a kind of “me-ism”, became the new zeitgeist in privileged western societies and signaled the demise of great collective movements against war, social injustice, inequality,  racism and sexism.

Today, the long sleep may be over. The young are stirring again. Gradually. The thousands in Britain who supported Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader are part of this awakening – as are those who rallied to support Senator Bernie Sanders.

In Britain last week, Jeremy Corbyn’s closest ally, his shadow treasurer John McDonnell, committed a Labour government to pay off the debts of piratical banks and, in effect, to continue so-called austerity.

In the US, Bernie Sanders has promised to support Clinton if or when she’s nominated. He, too, has voted for America’s use of violence against countries when he thinks it’s “right”. He says Obama has done “a great job”.

In Australia, there is a kind of mortuary politics, in which tedious parliamentary games are played out in the media while refugees and Indigenous people are persecuted and inequality grows, along with the danger of war. The government of Malcolm Turnbull has just announced a so-called defence budget of $195 billion that is a drive to war.  There was no debate. Silence.

What has happened to the great tradition of popular direct action, unfettered to parties? Where is the courage, imagination and commitment required to begin the long journey to a better, just and peaceful world? Where are the dissidents in art, film, the theatre, literature?

Where are those who will shatter the silence? Or do we wait until the first nuclear missile is fired?

The original source of this article is Global Research

Copyright © John Pilger, Global Research, 2016

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