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Living in Pitiless Times: Baghdad, Beirut and Paris
Prashad, Vijay
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/16/living-in-pitiless-times-baghdad-beirut-and-paris/Date Written: 2015-11-16 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX18171 A week of horrible carnage -- bomb blasts in Beirut and Baghdad and then the cold-blooded shootings in Paris. Each of these acts of terror left dead bodies and wounded lives. There is nothing good that comes of them – only the pain of the victim and then more pain as powerful people take refuge in clichéd policies that once again turn the wheel of violence. How does one react to these incidents? Horror and outrage come first. They are instinctual. Subject Headings |