Gary Trudeau gives us an example of how the media spins the story. Today's focus: Afghanistan.

Doonesbury reports from Afghanistan. (image: Doonesbury.com)

Doonesbury Reporting From Afghanistan

Gary Trudeau, Reader Supported News

17 April 12

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Gary Trudeau gives us an example of how the media spins the story. Today's focus: Afghanistan. -- SMG/RSN

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+1 # Radscal 2014-03-15 18:44

This article has been up for two days, and not a single comment?

The continent of Africa has mineral reserves and other natural resources that have made many European regimes wealthy for centuries while impoverishing the humans who live there. Now, Western transnational corporations are also exploiting the labor in new ways.

And all the military operations that are highlighted in this article are examples of the "divide and rule" strategy that Power has used against the people since the dawn of civilization. A dawn that first rose on this, the home continent for us all concurrently with that other seminal land, what we now call Iraq.

The arrogance of Power sickens me.

0 # RobertMStahl 2014-03-18 11:38

'Tis a bifurcation principle in the history of evolution, a cusp of time where an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure is subsumed by damage control, instead. Nevertheless, for the learning, or learning to learn as Gregory Bateson puts it, missed, there is a wonderful history of humanity over time in western education, also subsumed by the status quo, or totalitarianism . An appreciation for life and it origins (Lynn Margulis), or the Universe (GUTCP) and much more contrasts the desolate terrains in this wake of history, only that it, too, is up for auction with such ripples in human activity. Really, there is not much I can say. I appreciate your comment.

Paul Craig Roberts, Arthur Silber, Tarzie, Chris Floyd, all are reporters needed as much as Nick Turse (and Chris Hedges).

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