>Edward Said says:>Have any of the innumerable members of the foreign media >covering the conflict done a story about these brutalised young Israelis >conscripts, trained to punish Palestinian civilians as the main part of >their military duty? I think not. < > >the (U.S.) NATION magazine -- which also publishes Said's stuff (and >Henwood's) -- had a report on this, I think by Edward Friedman. (BTW, I like >Said's stuff in al Ahram better than what the NATION publishes. It's more >concrete, less airy.) >JD
JD, Said probably has the so called mainstream foreign media in mind, as you doubtless are aware--so one wonders what your point is here. As for your other 'points': Greider their main global economics man has yet to even acknowledge in the kind of detail that it deserves the concerns expressed by Raffer and Singer. I think Silverstein's and Klare's pieces on Sa'udi Arabia have only scratched the surface (in fact I think Silverstein's analysis was wrong in so far it accorded a kind of monopoly pricing power to the putative swing producer--note Raffer and Singer and Bina analysis that I have discussed here, but I myself until recently had the same wrong ideas about the Sa'udis as monopolists and OPEC as an effective cartel). As I said, the Cortright analysis of the consequences of the sanctions was shoddy--which again was not to say that the estimates which he held up were not right. But hey I haven't been subbed to the Nation for a while. RB
