Posted on 28-3-2003
Misinformation
Is Power
by Alan Marston
What is truth? A question with the same philosophical religious
implications as `What is God?'. Most of the time we can treat
such
questions with philosophical detachment and agree to disagree,
but not so
in the middle of a war when getting good information means the
difference
between life and death.
It appears that a war is only going on in Iraq, and right there
is the
prime symptom of another global war, the war on democracy, which
employs
misinformation instead of munitions. What is truth? is the central
question
for all humans, always has been, but it has never been answered
so
powerfully for death and so accessibly for life. For every bucket
of death
answers projected via mainstream media outlets there is a teaspoon
of
life-giving information in an ever expanding network of electronic
independent media, of which PlaNet hopes it plays a part.
Rather than reiterate misinformation, which will be second-hand
and
re-propagates it, PlaNet aims to give alternative, pro-democracy,
information and recommends that each individual searches out
information
for themselves, choosing sources that feel like life-promoting
truth.
Instinct comes before intellect.
Click on... and live.
www.indymedia.org
www.fair.org
www.greenpeace.org
www.scoop.co.nz
www.arena.org.nz
www.cafca.org.nz
www.commondreams.org
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