WITS END - JO LEE Magazine

First, when Gorbachev announced Perestroika, the Western
media bolted an iron mask on the West. They even went so
far as to give a Nobel Peace Prize to Mikhail Gorbachev, the
leader of the most criminal murder machine the world has
ever seen.
The perestroika example is fascinating because the mask was
put on the West but it was not put on Russian people. I and
my Western colleagues in Russia were under the illusion that
a liberal revolution was taking place, a clean break with the
past for Russia.
Westerners in Russia live, work and raise families together
with Russians yet one group wears the mask and one group
does not. The English language media in Russia religiously
promotes the illusion, while the Russian language media does
not, two different perceptions of reality in one geographical
location. Russians consider it futile to explain this paradox to
Westerners.
The second example is more sinister: ‘The war on Terror’.
The illusionists say we are liberating Iraq but in reality we are
destroying it. To say this openly in America will earn you the
title of ‘enemy of the people.’ If one removes the mask of
illusion called ‘The war on Terror’ - the grim reality of an
imminent attack on Syria and Iran shines through because the
destruction of Iraq is useless to the illusionists without
neutralizing those two countries.
62 JO LEE SUMMER 2007