[lbo-talk] Voice of America, voice of reason?

ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Sat Apr 11 08:34:08 PDT 2009


On Apr 11, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> I think this is the guy we saw on the Maddow show the other week,
> who said that the Somali pirates are desperate people who used to be
> fishermen, but that commercial vessels have trawled their waters
> empty, so they turned to piracy to stay alive.

Or maybe this guy: http://bit.ly/E0rb.


> Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be
> declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal
> Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the
> US to China - is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we
> still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They
> will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates
> onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But
> behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold
> scandal. The people our governments are labeling as "one of the
> great menace of our times" have an extraordinary story to tell --
> and some justice on their side.

--ravi

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