1.0 link 69922 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-gareth-porter/newspeak-and-the-new-war-_b_69922.html The more I read the press releases and public statements of the U.S. military command in Iraq (the "Multinational Force Iraq") under Gen. David Petraeus, the more I am reminded of the dystopian future empire of George Orwell's 1984, in which the state controls thought processes through an ingenious language called "Newspeak." That variant of English is organized so as to reinforce the total dominance of the state by removing all shades of meaning except the extreme dichotomies that keep...

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