Obama’s lies over the Afghanistan war remind us of the lessons of Nineteen Eighty-Four by John Pilger The New Statesman In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate, Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls … Continue reading Welcome to Orwell’s World