[Peace-discuss] Our terrorism

[Rachel Storm]

I listened to this and heard this comment when it was aired and it reminded me of why I adore Democracy Now.

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>Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:54:38 -0600
>From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Our terrorism  
>To: peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
>
>	Mumbai Imagery vs. Iraq and Afghanistan Coverage
>
>Interviewed by Democracy Now!'s Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman (12/1/08) on the 
>Mumbai attacks, Tariq Ali has a "point I would make about this whole business, 
>which is, of course, ghastly, terrible":
>
>     "I think it should be stated that if images were shown of the killings that 
>were going on in Afghanistan or in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier province as a 
>result of state terrorism carried out by the United States and its allies or in 
>Iraq -- let's imagine that every single atrocity being committed in Iraq and 
>Afghanistan were broadcast like this by the world media -- the effect would be 
>electric, but it isn't. So we see these images, horrific though they are, from 
>Mumbai... and we don't contextualize what is going on in the world as a whole. 
>And that, I think, can be dangerous."
>
>http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/12/02/mumbai-imagery-vs-iraq-and-afghanistan-coverage/
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