Tuesday, 1 April 2008

US in Iraq, China in Tibet. Same?

I think was Hitler who said that the bigger the lie, the more likely it is to be believed. If this is true, it's true because most people simply cannot believe, don't dare believe, what "their" government is doing "on their behalf". 

Have a look at this from Medialens. It compares the way corporate media deals with two contrasting occupations -  Iraq, where we are helping them out (!) - and Tibet, where the Chinese government is an illegal occupier. (If the article has been archived - then look here instead).

At the same time have a look here at just a tiny sample of the photos of Philip Jones Griffiths who died recently. He was arguably the best photographer of the Vietnamese war (and elsewhere). 

Where are the PJGs of the Iraq war? (This is a little unfair, because there are some heroic photo-journalists in Iraq - what I mean is - where are the photographs?!)

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