Thursday, March 04, 2004

John Pilger on the Myth of a Democratic Opposition

John Pilger, the award-winning reporter and documentary filmmaker, took the Coke/Pepsi taste test and came up with generally the same answer as I did regarding the similarities in the foreign policy agendas of the Democrats and Republicans.

In his cover story for the March 8, 2004 issue of the New Statesman, Pilger quotes from an article that I wrote for Press Action on the question of whether the New Democrats’ international vision is too terribly different than the one currently being carried out by the neoconservatives in the White House. Pilger says in his article:

"Perhaps the most repulsive section of [his] book,” writes Mark Hand, editor of Press Action, the American media monitoring group, “is where Kerry discusses the Vietnam war and the anti-war movement."
"In this one passage,” writes Hand, “Kerry seeks to justify the millions of people slaughtered by the US military and its surrogates during the 20th century [and] suggests that concern about US war crimes in Vietnam is no longer necessary… Kerry and his colleagues in the ‘progressive internationalist’ movement are as gung-ho as their counterparts in the White House… Come November, who will get your vote? Coke or Pepsi?"

-Mark Hand

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