Politicians and the corporate media keep repeating the same lies, year after year, in the knowledge that most listeners or readers will believe their lies. Back in 2003, when the American Ambassador in Baghdad met on a daily basis with Saddam Hussein\u2019s ministers to arrange all details of the confrontation, day, time, who\u2019ll shoot the first shot, etc, government officials, diplomats and the parroting media kept \u201cinforming\u201d us of the \u201cprogress\u201d of the talks, of the \u201cgreat diplomatic efforts\u201d that were being made in order to avoid the armed conflict. All of this whilst mobilizing half a million soldiers, marines, pilots and transporting everything that would be needed to sustain a long war.<\/p>\n
Three days ago, on Friday 7 October, the same hypocrisy surfaced all over again. Through the same corporate media, the world came to learn that “Eastern Aleppo will be totally destroyed within two months”. The hypocrite and fallacious reason given: “after the latest attempts to broker a ceasefire failed”.<\/p>\n
Will the political truth ever be heard? People will then understand why, despite the fact that nobody likes or wants wars, governments manage to impose them upon us.<\/p>\n
In fact the truth is very simple: Eastern Aleppo will be destroyed because of the \u201csuccess\u201d of the latest attempts to broker an increase of fighters, fighting vehicles, weapons, ammunition, missiles and explosives.<\/p>\n
I shall continue my campaign for the abolition of militarism.<\/p>\n
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Alberto Portugheis is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>. By profession a concert pianist and pedagogue www.apion.org.uk\/tapsim<\/a>,\u00a0he\u00a0is an\u00a0active peace campaigner, whose anti-military stance \u00a0earned him\u00a0a nomination\u00a0\u00a0for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.\u00a0As a result,\u00a0Portugheis wrote,\u00a0\u201cDear Ahed\u2026..The Game of War and a Path to Peace\u201d\u00a0– a book that has received critical acclaim http:\/\/www.dearahed.co.uk<\/a>.\u00a0He contributes regularly to Twitter and has many followers.\u00a0Some of his thoughts, ideas\u00a0and reflections,\u00a0which express only the desire \u201cto make people think\u201d and not take for granted what they read, \u201cno matter where\u201d, can be found in his blog http:\/\/portugheis.livejournal.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In fact the truth is very simple: Eastern Aleppo will be destroyed because of the \u201csuccess\u201d of the latest attempts to broker an increase of fighters, fighting vehicles, weapons, ammunition, missiles and explosives. I shall continue my campaign for the abolition of militarism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}