Last Sunday's massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by a US army sergeant and Wednesday's farewell to arms by a departing Goldman Sachs executive may appear to be totally separate events, but perhaps are interconnected in more ways than one might think.
It would be tempting to attribute both to the Ides of March, when interplanetary alignments supposedly trigger changes in human behaviour. However, there is little doubt that both will become well-entrenched as pieces of history shaping the new world order.
The two biggest problems facing mankind today in terms of human and financial costs are military conflicts and economic crises. Both can be linked to the largest cover-up and disinformation campaigns since the end of World War II.
These campaigns are destined to fail. The people behind them know it but, caught in a lose-lose ''damned if they do and damned if they don't'' situation, they have no option except to stay the course.
The war in Afghanistan can only be sustained because it depends on brainwashing members of the American public into a) thinking they are being protected, and b) sending their children to kill or be killed in defence of the cause.
A key part of this disinformation campaign is to keep the full impact of wars out of the public eye. The US public certainly is not being told the full story about the deep psychological, mental and physical damage being inflicted on hundreds of thousands of servicemen and women.
Would it be good journalism to shine more light on this? It certainly would, but unlike during Vietnam, it is not being reflected on US TV screens.
