Monday, August 28, 2017

Editorial: Who's hiding the deaths these days?


Sgt. Roshain E. Brooks, 30, and Sgt. Allen L. Stigler Jr., 22, were identified as soldiers killed in Iraq on Sunday
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Brooklyn's NEWS 12 noted that last Friday saw hundreds turn out for the funeral of Sgt. Roshain Brooks "who migrated to the United States from Jamaica.  Family members say he was motivated to join the armed forces after the terrorist attacks on 9/11."

Matt Peterson (DALLAS MORNING NEWS) reports that the following day saw the funeral of Sgt. Allen Levi Stigler Jr.

This was Stigler's first combat deployment, and he was expected home in a month. He joined the Army in November 2013, soon after graduating from Timberview High School.
Minister R.L. Taylor, Stigler's uncle, released a statement thanking the community for its support in the family's time of need.
"He was one of the greatest nephews anyone could have had," Taylor said. "Caring, respectable and very responsible ... that was our A.J."



Two American service members killed this month in Iraq.

And know what?

Amy Goodman ignored the deaths.

Is it her racism?  Two Black service members die and she doesn't have time for it.

Is it her move to whoring for the establishment?  The same effort that saw her cheerlead for war on Libya?

Or is it just the fact that she's full of s**t?

Earlier this month, two Americans died serving in the ongoing Iraq War and yet the host of "the war and peace report" never found time to do a segment on them or even note them in a single headline.


Despite this, Goodman still travels the country pimping her clip jobs passed off as books while making statements like this, "I really do think that those who are deeply concerned about war and peace, those who are concerned about the growing inequality in this country, those who are concerned about climate change, the fate of the planet, those who are concerned about social, economic, racial injustice are not a fringe minority.  Not even a silent majority.  But a silenced majority silenced by the corporate media."

Goody's the one doing the silencing these days.

If you're not getting how bad it's gotten on Goodman's crap-ass show, let's note this from Sam Husseini (BLACK AGENDA REPORT):


 Contrast Trump's realistic statement with what passes for dissent on "Democracy Now", which recently reverentially interviewed Ta-Nehisi Coates of the once somewhat dignified journal The Atlantic. Coates stated: "The Civil War was the most lethal war in American history. The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars—all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc."  "People." 


Did you catch the problem with Ta-Ta's nonsense?

More people did not die in The Civil War than in WWII.

More Americans died.

620,000 Americans died -- approximately -- in The Civil War.

How many Americans are estimated to have died in WWII?

405,399.

But how many people?


Between fifty-to-eighty-million.

Only the disgraceful Amy Goodman could let Ta-Ta get away with defining only Americans as "people."








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