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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.
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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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.
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.