----- Original Message ----- From: "Institute for Public Accuracy" <ipamedia at nationalpress.com> To: "Institute for Public Accuracy" <institute at igc.org> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 1:05 PM Subject: Terror Aftermath: Deeper Analysis
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> Sunday, September 16, 2001
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> Terror Aftermath: Deeper Analysis
>
> JILL NELSON, JillieJams at aol.com,
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/628350.asp?0si=-,
> http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/jill_nelson
> Author of "Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience" and a
> columnist for MSNBC, Nelson said today: "What we can do is demand
> leadership. Not the leadership of politicians angling for pet projects
like
> missile defense shields or casting about for somewhere to lay the blame
and
> someone to wage war upon. We certainly don't need the leadership of
> America's corporations and Oiltocracy, the defense contractors who stand
to
> profit from military activity or the independent profiteers who are
> capitalizing on our fears by gouging gas prices. It's up to the American
> people to take the high road and demand that our leaders join us. Revenge
> will not resolve the magnitude of this tragedy. Nothing does. We owe the
> dead and those who mourn them the tribute of our true, loving,
> compassionate selves, not the violent and vengeful other."
>
> NAOMI KLEIN, nklein at sympatico.ca, http://www.nologo.org
> Author of the international bestseller "No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand
> Bullies" -- called "a movement bible" by the New York Times -- and a
> leading voice against corporate globalization, Klein said today:
"Americans
> don't get daily coverage on CNN of the ongoing bombings in Iraq, nor are
> they treated to human-interest stories on the devastating effects of
> economic sanctions on that country's children. After the 1998 bombing of a
> pharmaceutical factory in Sudan (apparently mistaken for a chemical
weapons
> facility) there weren't too many follow-up reports about what the loss of
> vaccine manufacturing did to disease prevention. When NATO bombed civilian
> targets in Yugoslavia -- including markets, hospitals, refugee convoys,
> passenger trains, and a TV station -- major media didn't do 'streeter'
> interviews with survivors about how shocked they were by the
indiscriminate
> destruction. The U.S. has become expert in the art of sanitizing and
> dehumanizing acts of war committed elsewhere. This is one of the country's
> many paradoxes: though the engine of globalization around the world, the
> nation has never been more inward looking, less worldly. The U.S. is a
> country that believed itself not just at peace but war-proof, a
> self-perception that would come as quite a surprise to most Iraqis,
> Palestinians and Colombians. The era of the video game war in which the
> U.S. is always at the controls has produced a blinding rage in many parts
> of the world, a rage at the persistent asymmetry of suffering. This is the
> context in which twisted revenge seekers make no other demand than that
> American citizens share their pain."
>
> STEVE NIVA, nivas at evergreen.edu, http://www.commondreams.org,
> http://www.merip.org, http://commondreams.org/views01/0914-04.htm
> Niva, who wrote the article "Between Clash and Cooptation: U.S. Foreign
> Policy and Islamic Movements," is professor of international politics at
> Evergreen State College in Washington and an associate with the Middle
East
> Research and Information Project. He said today: "The present U.S.
strategy
> for ending the threat of terrorism through the use of military force will
> only exacerbate the problem. Terrorism is a phenomenon that can be
defeated
> only by amelioration of the conditions that inspire it. These attacks have
> been attributed to Islamic radicals based in the Middle East and Central
> Asia. While only a fringe element has seized upon violence as their
> solution, many of the world's 1.2 billion Muslim people are understandably
> aggrieved by double standards. When innocent U.S. citizens are killed or
> harmed the U.S. government expects expressions of outrage and grief over
> brutal terrorism. But when U.S. cruise missiles kill and maim innocent
> Iraqis, Sudanese, Afghanis, and Pakistanis, the U.S. calls it 'collateral
> damage.'"
>
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