While You are Minding Your Own Business, The U.S. is Constantly Making War Around the Globe

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
Posted on September 22, 2009, Printed on September 23, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/142824/

"War is peace" was one of the memorable slogans on the facade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue in "Newspeak," the language invented by George Orwell in 1948 for his dystopian novel 1984. Some 60 years later, a quarter-century after Orwell's imagined future bit the dust, the phrase is, in a number of ways, eerily applicable to the United States.

Last week, for instance, a New York Times front-page story by Eric Schmitt and David Sanger was headlined "Obama Is Facing Doubts in Party on Afghanistan, Troop Buildup at Issue." It offered a modern version of journalistic Newspeak.