A Letter From A Reader, About How To Understand Afghanistan

And--what's the matter with us--WIKILEAKS!

Hey Celia,

If you want a good historical assessment of Afghanistan, see the interview of Pepe Escobar on Grayzone by Ben Norton. Pepe is an old Asia hand. He has a long history of excellent, on the ground reporting, which is censored from mainstream media. The Taliban today is not the Taliban of 20 years ago. 

Also, the new government was inaugurated under a grand trine, obviously chosen by astute Islamic astrologers. The government has a good future. No burkhas, no revenge.

The whole 20 years was an operation involving hundreds of billions of dollars, money laundering and arms sales to the western corporations. The geopolitics is complex, but China and Russia and Iran clearly won, and will be involved in mineral extraction, and building infrastructure for the New Silk Road.

Blessings of peace on the Afghani people,

Thank you Celia for your voice.

Best Wishes,

Eleanor Robin Gaura Vila,

Jalisco, México

Note: Eleanor, thank you. I went to the Grayzone site but did not find the Pepe Escobar interview. Then I placed my palm against my forehead, wondering where my mind has been.

Julian Assange.

Wikileaks. What did they go after him for?

The Afghanistan War Logs.

More detailed, even, than The Pentagon Papers. What Assange says here is in keeping with your observations Eleanor.

He gave his life so that we would have all this, and somehow, we don’t manage to even remember it. Assange wears a T shirt with a Norwegian saying about the importance of “digging through time.” Archives, thousands of pages— it all takes time, but we chase the story down the street like puppies after a red ball. That’s not where the truth is (the red ball.) As Assange says, you have to dig down, through time.

You have to go back in time, to see the present. And the “media” is structured such that nothing ever goes back, everything is red ball red ball red ball, and ratings. And above all, decontextualization as a national obsession.

“The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.”

—George W.S. Trow

Here it is, https://wikileaks.org/afg/

—but who has time?

If we stop chasing the red ball, we could, perhaps, know something. Sometimes I think Julian Assange knows more than any other single person alive, so it makes a kind of obscene perfect sense that nobody can ever hear him speak again. Because detailed knowledge is a kind of terrorist act in America. If you actually know things, you lose your bones. You lose stature, stability. You become a second class citizen, an outcast, a madman. In his case, a political prisoner with no statement, even, on what his crime was, against whom—only the sickening certainty that nobody can hear his voice because he speaks in such a detailed, exacting manner.

I do not believe Assange is a CIA agent, but I am aware some people think that. Nobody has ever contested the fact that 100% of what Wikileaks has published is real, authentic documentation, nothing fake, no spin, and no Psy-Ops. What Assange got wrong was: He thought if he unearthed the documents and cables and emails for us, to see how everything works behind the media facade of global cabal power, that we would read it.

https://wikileaks.org/afg/