Having seen McClatchy Newspapers as the source for almost the only honest reporting you can find in the 'traditional media' (much better name than MSM, now that Daily Kos is part of the TRUE MSM), I was browsing their online main page today when I saw the title Baghdad Observer. It was followed by a very nice photo and this lede: "Leila Fadel's trip to two bomb-wrecked Yazidis cities in northern Iraq provides the stark contrast with the sadness there and the pleasures of the military base."
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When you get to her blog's main page, there's a short entry from today, 8/23, titled "The Changing Language of War" about the origins of the new Iraqi slang word "enaalso". Not a pleasant read, but nowhere near as emotion-wrenching as the 8/22 entry, "The Divide""
On Sunday I spent the day in two Yazidi villages in west Ninewah province. Here they have nothing. Along the dusty roads, beige clay houses blend into the landscape. There is no running water or electricity. Now they have less than ever. More than 400 people were killed last week in four coordinated truck bombings. The stories were endless as the U.S. military that helped me get here rushed me from one bombing site to the next. The landscape was scarred and the women chanted, cried and fainted in grief in this ancient religion they will chant and mourn from sun up to sun down for a week.
I HIGHLY recommend you read the entire story. It will hurt, but you'll be better for the knowledge. We don't see views like this often enough in the traditional media. We need to demand that they be more frequently offered.