QUOTES
American
foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And
that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and
by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to
the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest
in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both
sides of the story.
"I
support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and
of course every other country in the world... That does not require economic sanctions...I
think we've got to take the risk and give up economic sanctions while hanging
on to the disarmament programme and allow the Iraqis to get on with rebuilding
their country."
Much
of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like
Westinghouse, or G.E. [General Electric]. That’s unacceptable. So we’re not getting
editorial policy, we’re not getting a vision of truth. People just don’t know
what is going on anymore, and that’s really dangerous stuff.
