By achieve on 10 May 2010
America, Empire of barbarism The secret Guantanamo by Thierry MeyssanManipulation and misinformation in the media (Monte Avila Editores, 2008). "Href " auteur29 http://www.voltairenet.org/article162810.html "> You think maybe you are informed about what happened at Guantanamo and was surprised that President Obama could bridge the torture center. You were wrong. You do not know the true purpose of this device and making it indispensable for the current administration. Beware! If what you want is to keep thinking that there are common values between us and the United States and we must remain allies of Washington, refrain from reading this article. Arrested outside a session of "upgrading" at Guantanamo. We all remember the pictures of torture that circulated on the Internet. They presented themselves as war trophies they had picked up a few U.S. soldiers. But, unable to verify its authenticity, the mainstream media did not dare to play them. In 2004, CBS gave them a story.Thus began a great movement to denounce the mistreatment of Iraqis. The Abu Ghraib prison showed that the alleged war against the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein was in fact a war of occupation like any other sequel with the same crimes. Washington said, as expected, that they were excesses committed behind the controls by a few individuals unrepresentative qualified as "bad apples." Some soldiers were arrested and tried to serve as an example. And the case was closed until the next revelation. Simultaneously, the CIA and the Pentagon were preparing public opinion in both U.S. and allied countries, for a change of moral values.The CIA had appointed a liaison officer with Hollywood, Colonel Brandon Chase (a cousin of
Tommy Lee Jones), and hired famous writers (like Tom Clancy) and writers to write new scripts for movies and television. Objective: To stigmatize the Muslim culture and trivializing torture as part of the fight against terrorism. As an example, the adventures of agent Jack Bauer in the 24 series have been widely supported by the CIA to take each season a little further the limits of acceptability. In the early episodes, the hero intimidates suspects to extract information. In the following episodes, all the characters suspect each other, and tortured each other, with more or less unscrupulous and increasingly confident that they are fulfilling their duty. In the collective imagination, centuries of humanism were well swept and imposed a new barbarism. This allowed the Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer (who is also a psychiatrist) to present the use of torture as a "moral imperative" (sic) in these difficult times of war against terrorism. Research Swiss senator Dick Marty to the Council of Europe confirmed that the CIA had kidnapped thousands of people across the world, including several dozens-possibly hundreds-had been abducted in the territory of the European Union.