by John Pilger
‘In Nineteen Eighty-Four,
George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of
war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth.
‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan,
‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the
past’.”
Barack Obama is the
leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the close of the
decade, the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer
peace, but rather a permanent war that “extends well beyond
Afghanistan and Pakistan” to “disorderly regions and
diffuse enemies”. He called this “global security”
and invited our gratitude. To the people of Afghanistan, which America
has invaded and occupied, he said wittily: “We have no interest
in occupying your country”.’
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