Contrast coverage of Russia's Aleppo offensive -- evil, barbaric -- with muted coverage of the US's Mosul offensivehttp://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iraq-mosul-airstrike-20170325-story.html …
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See Peter Hitchens on this very conspicuous discrepancy: http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/03/aleppo-and-mosul-two-very-similar-battles-two-utterly-contrasting-media-attitudes.html …
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Patrick Cockburn, same subject, back in October http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iraq-syria-aleppo-mosul-patrick-cockburn-propaganda-we-consume-a7373951.html … Lots of good articles on this
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American public was expected to declare solidarity with extremist forces in Aleppo incl AQ. Their removal was cast as huge tragedy.
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Hysterical domestic climate re: Russia made that the only acceptable narrative, despite the obvious absurdity.
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of course! Why would we have the MSM shining light on the profitable US war machine?
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It's only a war crime if Syria, Russia or black Africans do it Michael.
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@kierobar apparently Russia are evil monsters while we are just making the world safer or something
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Partly wrong. It's getting a little more coverage than expected,from MSM because Trump is now in charge.
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Sure, here's your less muted coverage: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/voices-concern-high-civilian-deaths-mosul-170325111006277.html … 500 casualties in the last week alone.
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I wish no one would die. Half a mil in Syria, since the beginning of the conflict.
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They were killing civilians in Aleppo in cold blood so they would not become refugees, so the houses would be empty for Assad.
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THAT is why there was outrage. More outrage when a man faces a child and shoots her to take her family home, than drops a bomb.
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Is that just? I have no idea. They are both horrible.
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We've been living in a "Wasteland" as T.S. Eliot called it. People are more than ever craving authenticity.
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yep I shared this a week or so ago after reading the article. Man, f*ck war.
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