Re: Robert Fisk on Assange and Wikileaks Archived Message Posted by Raskolnikov on May 31, 2019, 9:15 am, in reply to "Robert Fisk on Assange and Wikileaks" Very powerful piece which should be the kind of thing journalists have been producing every day on Assange, but insted silence. Such tomfoolery is insignificant compared to the monstrous revelations of American cruelty; the account, for example, of how US troops killed almost 700 civilians for coming too close to their checkpoints, including pregnant women and the mentally ill. And the instruction to US forces – this bit of history from Chelsea Manning – not to investigate when their Iraqi military allies whipped prisoners with heavy cables, hung them from ceiling hooks, bored holes into their legs with electric drills and sexually assaulted them. In the secret US assessment of 109,000 deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan (itself a gross underestimation), 66,081 were officially classified as non-combatants. What, I wonder, would have been the American reaction to the killing of 66,000 US citizens, 20 times more than the dead of 9/11? I imagine they would have gone into a blood lust and wanted to wage war on the "perpetrators"; exactly what their reaction to 9/11 was. This paragraph just brings home how the idea of "unpeople" is so common in the media coverage of the GWOT. Message Thread: Robert Fisk on Assange and Wikileaks - dovetailjoint May 31, 2019, 6:37 am Re: Robert Fisk on Assange and Wikileaks - Raskolnikov May 31, 2019, 9:15 am Re: Robert Fisk on Assange and Wikileaks - dovetailjoint May 31, 2019, 9:53 am   Searching