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House destroyed by Saudi-led airstrike in Saana, July 3. (Photo: Hani Mohammed/AP)
Civilian Victims in Yemen Will be Ignored Because U.S. and its Allies Are Responsible
In Fayoush, Yemen on Monday morning, just outside of Aden, "a massive airstrike" hit a marketplace and killed at least 45 civilians, wounding another 50. Officials told the AP that "bodies were strewn about following the strike." The bombing was carried out by what is typically referred to as a "Saudi-led coalition"; it is rarely mentioned in Western media reports that the U.S.
Jul 07, 2015
In Fayoush, Yemen on Monday morning, just outside of Aden, "a massive airstrike" hit a marketplace and killed at least 45 civilians, wounding another 50. Officials told the AP that "bodies were strewn about following the strike." The bombing was carried out by what is typically referred to as a "Saudi-led coalition"; it is rarely mentioned in Western media reports that the U.S. is providing very substantial support to this "Saudi-led" war in Yemen, now in its fifth month, which has repeatedly, recklessly killed Yemeni civilians.
Because these deaths of innocents are at the hands of the U.S. government and its despotic allies, it is very predictable how they will be covered in the U.S. None of the victims will be profiled in American media; it'll be very surprising if any of their names are even mentioned. No major American television outlet will interview their grieving families. Americans will never learn about their extinguished life aspirations, or the children turned into orphans, or the parents who will now bury their infants. There will be no #FayoushStrong Twitter hashtags trending in the U.S. It'll be like it never happened: blissful ignorance.
This is the pattern that repeats itself over and over. Just see the stone-cold media silence when President Obama, weeks after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, ordered a cruise missile strike in Yemen, complete with cluster bombs, which ended the lives of 35 women and children, none of whose humanity was acknowledged in virtually any Western media reports.
All of that stands in the starkest contrast to the intense victim focus whenever an American or Westerner is killed by an individual Muslim. Indeed, Americans just spent the last week inundated with melodramatic "warnings" from the U.S. government -- mindlessly amplified as always by their media -- that they faced serious terror on their most sacred day from ISIS monsters: a "threat" that, as usual, proved to be nonexistent.
Read the full article at The Intercept.
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Glenn Greenwald is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, constitutional lawyer, commentator, author of three New York Times best-selling books on politics and law, and a former staff writer and editor at First Look media. His fifth and latest book is, "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State," about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Glenn's column was featured at Guardian US and Salon. His previous books include: "With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful," "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics," and "A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency." He is the recipient of the first annual I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism, a George Polk Award, and was on The Guardian team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public interest journalism in 2014.
In Fayoush, Yemen on Monday morning, just outside of Aden, "a massive airstrike" hit a marketplace and killed at least 45 civilians, wounding another 50. Officials told the AP that "bodies were strewn about following the strike." The bombing was carried out by what is typically referred to as a "Saudi-led coalition"; it is rarely mentioned in Western media reports that the U.S. is providing very substantial support to this "Saudi-led" war in Yemen, now in its fifth month, which has repeatedly, recklessly killed Yemeni civilians.
Because these deaths of innocents are at the hands of the U.S. government and its despotic allies, it is very predictable how they will be covered in the U.S. None of the victims will be profiled in American media; it'll be very surprising if any of their names are even mentioned. No major American television outlet will interview their grieving families. Americans will never learn about their extinguished life aspirations, or the children turned into orphans, or the parents who will now bury their infants. There will be no #FayoushStrong Twitter hashtags trending in the U.S. It'll be like it never happened: blissful ignorance.
This is the pattern that repeats itself over and over. Just see the stone-cold media silence when President Obama, weeks after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, ordered a cruise missile strike in Yemen, complete with cluster bombs, which ended the lives of 35 women and children, none of whose humanity was acknowledged in virtually any Western media reports.
All of that stands in the starkest contrast to the intense victim focus whenever an American or Westerner is killed by an individual Muslim. Indeed, Americans just spent the last week inundated with melodramatic "warnings" from the U.S. government -- mindlessly amplified as always by their media -- that they faced serious terror on their most sacred day from ISIS monsters: a "threat" that, as usual, proved to be nonexistent.
Read the full article at The Intercept.
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, constitutional lawyer, commentator, author of three New York Times best-selling books on politics and law, and a former staff writer and editor at First Look media. His fifth and latest book is, "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State," about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Glenn's column was featured at Guardian US and Salon. His previous books include: "With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful," "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics," and "A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency." He is the recipient of the first annual I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism, a George Polk Award, and was on The Guardian team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public interest journalism in 2014.
In Fayoush, Yemen on Monday morning, just outside of Aden, "a massive airstrike" hit a marketplace and killed at least 45 civilians, wounding another 50. Officials told the AP that "bodies were strewn about following the strike." The bombing was carried out by what is typically referred to as a "Saudi-led coalition"; it is rarely mentioned in Western media reports that the U.S. is providing very substantial support to this "Saudi-led" war in Yemen, now in its fifth month, which has repeatedly, recklessly killed Yemeni civilians.
Because these deaths of innocents are at the hands of the U.S. government and its despotic allies, it is very predictable how they will be covered in the U.S. None of the victims will be profiled in American media; it'll be very surprising if any of their names are even mentioned. No major American television outlet will interview their grieving families. Americans will never learn about their extinguished life aspirations, or the children turned into orphans, or the parents who will now bury their infants. There will be no #FayoushStrong Twitter hashtags trending in the U.S. It'll be like it never happened: blissful ignorance.
This is the pattern that repeats itself over and over. Just see the stone-cold media silence when President Obama, weeks after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, ordered a cruise missile strike in Yemen, complete with cluster bombs, which ended the lives of 35 women and children, none of whose humanity was acknowledged in virtually any Western media reports.
All of that stands in the starkest contrast to the intense victim focus whenever an American or Westerner is killed by an individual Muslim. Indeed, Americans just spent the last week inundated with melodramatic "warnings" from the U.S. government -- mindlessly amplified as always by their media -- that they faced serious terror on their most sacred day from ISIS monsters: a "threat" that, as usual, proved to be nonexistent.
Read the full article at The Intercept.
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