KevinGagnon
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:41 am
<p>Stealing a Nation, A Special Report by John Pilger
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<br /><p>In this shocking film, the award-winning reporter reveals how the British government secretly expelled the entire population of a group of islands to make way for an American military base - from which Iraq was attacked.
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<br /><p>Stealing a Nation - which feels like a companion piece to Pilger's Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy, from 10 years ago - explains how the Wilson administration in the 1960s depopulated Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands to create space for an American
<br />military base in the Indian Ocean: planes flew from there to attack Afghanistan and Iraq.
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<br /><p>What's clever and unsettling about the film is that it makes the viewer's opinion of recent American foreign policy irrelevant. Pilger introduces a new moral complication: the Americans were flying from a stolen sovereign territory in the declared cause of liberating others.
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<br /><p>And the topicality of this 40- year-old story goes further: Pilger shows that the Blair administration recently used an Order in Council (a procedure bypassing parliament) to overturn a British High Court judgement that the Chagossians should reclaim their land. The only possible conclusion is that the squatters from the Pentagon refuse to let the
<br />island go.....
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<br /><p><a href="http://conspiracy.hopto.org:6969/stats.html?info_hash=27b6d788cf63111229c442d56eaf932f63a90af5">Available here</a>
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