“For some people, war is terror, disaster and death. For others, it’s a PR problem.” The domestic counterpart to the ad agency I mentioned below that is going to help sell the US-eye view of the conflict to the Islamic world, Spinning the War reflects on the public relations firm the Pentagon has hired “to help… look good while bombing Afghanistan.” Working for Change And a collection of the logos the nightly news broadcasts are using in their spins on:

America Fights Back, America Strikes Back, America Responds, War on Terrorism, War on Terror, A Nation United, America At War, America On Alert, Attack On America, Attack on Terror, America Under Attack, Anthrax…

And (for some balance??), John Pilger:

“ The war against terrorism is a fraud. After three weeks’ bombing, not a single terrorist implicated in the attacks on America has been caught or killed in Afghanistan.

Instead, one of the poorest, most stricken nations has been terrorised by the most powerful – to the point where American pilots have run out of dubious “military” targets and are now destroying mud houses, a hospital, Red Cross warehouses, lorries carrying refugees.

Unlike the relentless pictures from New York, we are seeing almost nothing of this. Tony Blair has yet to tell us what the violent death of children – seven in one family – has to do with Osama bin Laden.

And why are cluster bombs being used? The British public should know about these bombs, which the RAF also uses. They spray hundreds of bomblets that have only one purpose; to kill and maim people. Those that do not explode lie on the ground like landmines, waiting for people to step on them.

If ever a weapon was designed specifically for acts of terrorism, this is it. I have seen the victims of American cluster weapons in other countries, such as the Laotian toddler who picked one up and had her right leg and face blown off. Be assured this is now happening in Afghanistan, in your name.”

More about Pilger, a journalist with an emphatic viewpoint, here.