23562: Esser: toni solo on Haiti and the media (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: D. Esser <torx@joimail.com>

Dissident Voice
http://www.dissidentvoice.org

What Did Aeschylus Write in Daughters of Danaus?
by toni solo

[Excerpt]

October 22, 2004

In Haiti, a short hop away from Palmerola-Soto Cano, the US former
Contra-terrorist air support base, the staff in the morgue and
hospitals of the capital Port au Prince can no longer cope with the
number of dead from the UN supervised repression there. (*) How
unreasonable of them not to appreciate the privilege of participating
in the liberation of their island from their own elected government.
How insensitive of them not to see the clear benefits to the steadily
accumulating cadavers of having been murdered under the auspices of
freedom loving powers like the United States, Canada and France, with
strong support from President Lula of Brazil and His Royal Highness
the King of Jordan.

How many murdered Haitians will matter in the end before some among
the omnipotent plutocrats shed a few tears? A few hundred? A few
thousand? Freedom's trumpeters in the mainstream media can't be
expected to waste newsreel and airtime on irrelevancies. We owe what
we know of the horror of the repression in Haiti to a handful of
incredibly brave journalists like Kevin Pina of Black Commentator and
many anonymous brave Haitians. In their non-coverage of Haiti, the
mainstream news media have reached a new low - after Iraq that hardly
seemed possible. But it is a fact that for the media heralds of
empire, every infamy is likely to be outdone.

*  www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=6438
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