giving lies a stage
complicit in their propaganda
giving voice to their rage
The opiate of a perception
a mandate to cover news
but letting the leaders
command the stage, our views
A platform for their deceptions
covering the cruel facts
Their oppression of their people
willing to kill the innocents
for another day in power
Deny them this vehicle
let them rant from the balcony
the madmen, dictators
should not control the media
Independence should be the watchword
not trying to catch them in lies
in respectfully waiting for them to speak
in a place of their choosing
Cover the reality in the street
or refuse to broadcast their lies
March
5, 2011
“Moammar
Gadhafi's son speaks with CNN”
Saif
al-Islam Gaddafi
Saif
al-Islam al-Gaddafi
Nic
Robertson
&
edited
April 25, 2015
Black
and White – v2
September
4, 2006 19:05
Black
and White
&
edited
April 25, 2015
The
Granary – v2
January
30, 2010
The
Granary
This
poem is about my memory,
of
the jarring sensation
seeing
a photograph circa 1994,
of
one of the all-time
great
pictures, capturing evil,
before
it rose up to full flowering
of
Joseph Goebbels,
in
1933 at the League of Nations
Life
Magazine article about the photo
on
display at The Granary Gallery
on
Martha’s Vineyard
taken
by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 - 1995),
a
master of black and white. Photojournalist of the century, http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/eisieintro.htm.
&
Tweet
about nighttime abductions in Tajoura district of Tripoli
massacre
in Zawiya
March
4, 2011
&
firing
of tear gas on people coming out of prayers
in Tajoura neighborhood of Tripoli
March
4, 2011
&
the
coming of a Friday day of prayers, which have been the days
of
the largest protests in many of the countries in revolt
March
4, 2011
&
The
ludicrous statements of Moammar Gaddafi
February
28, 2011
The
coverage of the sons of Muammar Qadhafi
with
Christiane Amanpour
February
27, 2011
&
seeing
the genocide in Libya
and
hearing the rabbling of Gadhafi
2/22/2011
&
on
the transformations since the beginning of January -
all
the protests in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Oman,
Jordan,
Iran, Iraq, Palestinian Territories, Djibouti, Mauritania, Senegal, etc.
and
especially
the resignation of Hosni Mubarak
February
11, 2011
&
and
the jubilance in Tahrir Square
versus
the bloodshed in Bahrain and Libya, etc.
February
18, 2011
&
hearing
claim by President Obama 2/15/2011
in
a news conference that when history books tell it
we
will be seen as being on the right side of history
in
how the United States responded
&
Post
on Twitter by Wael Ghonim
“Our
Revolution was like Wikipedia”
February
14, 2011
&
Post
on Twitter by Wael Ghonim
“This is Revolution 2.0: No one was a hero
because everyone was a hero.”
February
13, 2011
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