Comments on: Some Matter More: When 47 Victims Are Worth 43 Words http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/some-matter-more-when-47-victims-are-worth-43-words/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Lloyd Rowsey http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/some-matter-more-when-47-victims-are-worth-43-words/#comment-25321 Lloyd Rowsey Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:54:36 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2390#comment-25321 And for Chomsky's piece at Tomdispatch: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174899 And for Chomsky’s piece at Tomdispatch:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174899

]]> By: Lloyd Rowsey http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/some-matter-more-when-47-victims-are-worth-43-words/#comment-25320 Lloyd Rowsey Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:49:13 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2390#comment-25320 "or visit Media's website." http://www.medialens.org/ “or visit Media’s website.”

http://www.medialens.org/

]]> By: bozhidar balkas http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/some-matter-more-when-47-victims-are-worth-43-words/#comment-25314 bozhidar balkas Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:58:27 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2390#comment-25314 that's the way occupiers control alien pops: via bombs, missiles, tanks, artillery, etc. but US wants more than control of iraq; US, i conjecture, wants also a good piece of it. nato along US/world plutos want also a piece of afghanistan + control of its govt/governance. domestic pops r controled by lies. but don't all belligerent lands/empires do the same? lesson given being: obey us or else. afghans, pals, iraqis need to consider what passive resistance might or might not obtain. thank u that’s the way occupiers control alien pops: via bombs, missiles, tanks, artillery, etc.
but US wants more than control of iraq; US, i conjecture,
wants also a good piece of it.
nato along US/world plutos want also a piece of afghanistan + control of its govt/governance.
domestic pops r controled by lies. but don’t all belligerent lands/empires do the same?
lesson given being: obey us or else. afghans, pals, iraqis need to consider what passive resistance might or might not obtain.
thank u

]]> By: john wilkinson http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/some-matter-more-when-47-victims-are-worth-43-words/#comment-25313 john wilkinson Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:44:35 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2390#comment-25313 "The result is that Westerners are consistently humanised, while non-Westerners are portrayed as lesser versions of humanity." I agree. But don't forget to also include the "progressive" media treatment of the genocide victims in former Yugoslavia -- I didn't see that mentioned in your examples. “The result is that Westerners are consistently humanised, while non-Westerners are portrayed as lesser versions of humanity.”

I agree. But don’t forget to also include the “progressive” media treatment of the genocide victims in former Yugoslavia — I didn’t see that mentioned in your examples.

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