Greenwald writes: "In Fayoush, Yemen this morning, just outside of Aden, 'a
massive airstrike' hit a marketplace and killed at least 45 civilians,
wounding another 50."
House destroyed by Saudi-led airstrike in Saana. (photo: Hani Mohammed/AP)
Today's Civilian Victims in Yemen Will Be Ignored Because US and Its Allies
Are Responsible
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
06 July 15
I n Fayoush, Yemen this 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; itll 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. Itll 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.
This media imbalance is a vital propaganda tool. In U.S. media land,
Americans are always the victims of violence and terrorism, always menaced
and threatened by violent Muslim savages, always targeted for no reason
whatsoever other than primitive Islamic barbarism. That mythology is
sustained by literally disappearing Americas own victims, pretending they
dont exist, denying their importance through the casual invocation of
clichés weve been trained to spout (collateral damage) and, most
importantly of all, never humanizing them under any circumstances.
This is how the American self-perception as perpetual victim of terrorism,
but never its perpetrator, is sustained. Its also what fuels the belief
that They are propagandized but We arent. While these deaths will be
concealed from the American public, people in that part of the world will
hear much about them: just as Americans heard almost nothing about the Al
Jazeera journalist imprisoned for years in Guantanamo with no charges, Sami
al-Hajj, while he was a cause celebre in the Muslim world, leading Americans
to believe that only the Bad Countries, but never Us, imprison journalists.
From this latest Yemen bombing and so many like it, the resulting
differences in worldviews and perspectives isnt be because they are
propagandized, but because we are.
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Today's Civilian Victims in Yemen Will Be Ignored Because US and Its Allies
Are Responsible
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
06 July 15
n Fayoush, Yemen this 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; itll 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. Itll 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.
This media imbalance is a vital propaganda tool. In U.S. media land,
Americans are always the victims of violence and terrorism, always menaced
and threatened by violent Muslim savages, always targeted for no reason
whatsoever other than primitive Islamic barbarism. That mythology is
sustained by literally disappearing Americas own victims, pretending they
dont exist, denying their importance through the casual invocation of
clichés weve been trained to spout (collateral damage) and, most
importantly of all, never humanizing them under any circumstances.
This is how the American self-perception as perpetual victim of terrorism,
but never its perpetrator, is sustained. Its also what fuels the belief
that They are propagandized but We arent. While these deaths will be
concealed from the American public, people in that part of the world will
hear much about them: just as Americans heard almost nothing about the Al
Jazeera journalist imprisoned for years in Guantanamo with no charges, Sami
al-Hajj, while he was a cause celebre in the Muslim world, leading Americans
to believe that only the Bad Countries, but never Us, imprison journalists.
From this latest Yemen bombing and so many like it, the resulting
differences in worldviews and perspectives isnt be because they are
propagandized, but because we are.
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