Mainstream Media Rediscovers Massacres, Just Not the Ones We Fund
Al Jazeera reports RSF fighters filming an execution in el-Fasher’s Saudi Hospital, a barbarity that demands condemnation. Yet, the same outlets that breathlessly cover these horrors often fall silent when similar, or worse, actions are perpetrated by US-allied forces. We are trained to gasp at the savagery of 'bad' actors while granting moral immunity to those in Washington's orbit. Where is the
same urgent framing when hospitals in Gaza are bombed, often with US-made munitions? Or when Israeli forces document their own abuses against Palestinians? The funding mechanisms are clear: US taxpayers send billions in aid to Israel annually . The selective outrage isn't about human rights; it's about geopolitics and maintaining narratives.