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If Development Was Measured Not By Gross National Product, But A Society's Success In Meeting The Basic Needs Of Its People, Vietnam Would Have Been A Model. That Was Its Real "threat." From The Defeat Of The French At Dien Bien Phu In 1954 To 1972, Primary And Secondary School Enrollment In The North Increased Sevenfold, From 700,000 To Almost Five Million. In 1980, Unesco Estimated A Literacy Rate Of 90 Percent And School Enrollment Among The Highest In Asia And Throughout The Third World.

More Terrorists Are Given Training And Sanctuary In The United States Than Anywhere On Earth. They Include Mass Murderers, Torturers, Former And Future Tyrants And Assorted International Criminals. This Is Virtually Unknown To The American Public, Thanks To The Freest Media On Earth.

Israel Is The American Watchdog In The Middle East, And That's Why The Palestinians Remain Victims Of One Of The Longest Military Occupations. They Don't Have Oil. If They Were The Saudis, They Wouldn't Be In The Position They Are Now. But They Have The Power Of Being Able To Upset The Imperial Order In The Middle East.

Two Increasing Themes Which Appear To Dominate Our Listening, Reading And Watching Lives Are Propaganda And 'national Security', Or Manufactured War.

Iraq Has Been Successfully Demonized As If Everybody Who Lives There Is Saddam Hussein. In The Build-up To This Attack On Iraq, Journalists Have Almost Universally Excluded The Prospect Of Civilian Deaths, The Numbers Of People Who Would Die, Because Those People Don't Matter.