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Isis: Media, marketing and murder

“The advance of an army used to be marked by war drums. Now it’s marked by volleys of tweets,” wrote J.M. Berger in The Atlantic. Hind Shoufani comments on the media blackout surrounding atrocities by Isis 

I have been trying to instigate an argument (just to see how it might go down) with my new partner for six months now. It has been a futile endeavour. He blatantly refuses to fight with me. A good thing, I suppose.

But then, last week, while working on editing my new poetry collection, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) finally managed to cause our first heated argument. James Foley, the American journalist abducted in Syria, was violently beheaded in Iraq. I did not watch


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1 Comment

  • Why are Democrats and Republicans promoting the same Propaganda across all major news networks?
    Is there an alternative to these identical parties in 2016?

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