Mainstream Media Discovers Sudan, Omits Who Funded the Chaos
The besieged city of El Fasher is dubbed 'uninhabitable' by The Guardian , where 250,000 citizens are trapped in a brutal siege. It's a harrowing tale of human suffering, framed as an isolated crisis. Yet, the wider context of how Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) ascended and gained sophisticated weaponry often goes unexamined, especially in mainstream reporting. For instance, the RSF’s ties to
Gulf states, who themselves enjoy robust arms trade relationships with the West, are rarely headline news. We hear about the 'edge of survival,' but never about the 'Made in USA' labels on some of the components in the weapons fueling these conflicts, or the foreign bank accounts propping up the warring factions. How many 'uninhabitable' cities does it take before we question the global arms
bazaar facilitating these horrors? Or does tragedy only become 'news' when it's sufficiently distant from the sources of its geopolitical oxygen?