The horrendous carnage in US wars is the result of failure of these parasites to speak truth to power.Sowe have the spectacle in this country of scumbags like Aaronivitch et al retained as, imperialist friendly reporters and getting fat on the inflated pay while Iraq burns.

In the US,the hijacking of the media by the right has proceeded apace since Hearst decided to promote a previously unknown backwoods Baptist minister speaking to sparsely attended camp meetings in Los Angeles called Billy Graham.

In 1960 US broadcasters were allowed for the first time to sell airtime to religious groups.Paying religious broadcasters allowed television stations to maximize profits while allowing evangelical groups, already familiar through fund-raising,with the entrepreneurial possibilities of regular access to a mass market to peddle their wares.

Televangelists joined the anticommunist crusade with the economic and political elites who sought,during the Cold War,to reverse New Dealism at home and promote pre-emptive intervention and subversion abroad.

In the late 1960s the evangelical movement began to make more active inroads into electoral politics and build bridges with the Republicans.Thus the evangelical imagination with its warnings against the apocalyptic threat posed by godless communism during the Cold War was to become an electoral resource for Bush’s war on terror cover for empire-building in this century’s first US Presidential votes in 2000 and 2004.

Aside from the religious lobby the right-wing corporate Fox,PBS stations and others purvey the sick-making Empire propaganda that we are familiar with in this country through the BBC.

There was an anchor on Fox the other night trying to talk loudly over a 9/11 sceptic guest.He insisted that because we had all seen the planes hit the Twin Towers we had to accept that this was why the Towers had collapsed.

The fact that steel-frame buildings had never come down in such a way before or since seemed not to have even registered with him.

The new Pearl Harbour used to launch the US war on terror was just the latest corporate media production endorsement of Empire in a long history of collusion with established interests.

The BBC even managed to report the collapse of the third building(WTC 7)twenty minutes before it actually took place.WTC 7 was the nerve centre for the inside job conspiracy perpetrated that day having served as HQ for the CIA,Secret Service and MIC-affiliated groups it was the smoking gun that had to be destroyed.

Is it any wonder that the corporate media has been colluding in yet another deception this week to seek to help bolster a weak leader without any real mandate whatever by pretending that the so-called terror attacks were real and warrant another ratchetting-up of the threat level?

Since the death of Diana they know how easy it is to mobilise public hysteria and divert attention from the glaringly obvious questions the public are incapable of asking.

Exactly who is committing these manifold crimes in our name?

Pilger to his credit is one journalist worthy of the name who is unafraid to ask precisely this,the most urgent question of our time,and thereby frame the analysis on which we might rationally make both answer and remedy.