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roachboy · 03-19-2011, 06:37 PM

strange, isn't it?

let's leave aside the obvious realpolitik matters. they're self evident---there was no compatible action about gaza because the united states under bush 2 would not have allowed it. period.

i wonder the extent to which the consensus follows from a shift in media paradigm that's happened across the coverage of egypt--so something very new that's happened very fast one effect of which has been to open a space that actually treats north africa---and the middle east---as inhabited by human beings with aspirations not that different from those that allegedly animate people to the north.

just a theory.

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roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	strange, isn't it? let's leave aside the obvious realpolitik matters. they're self evident---there was no compatible action about gaza because the united states under bush 2 would not have allowed it. period. i wonder the extent to which the consensus follows from a shift in media paradigm that's happened across the coverage of egypt--so something very new that's happened very fast one effect of which has been to open a space that actually treats north africa---and the middle east---as inhabited by human beings with aspirations not that different from those that allegedly animate people to the north. just a theory. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 03-19-2011 at 06:42 PM..