REVIEW: A symbol of all that is wrong with the ‘war on terror’: Review of Prisoner 345 and Lost Stories Retold
Prisoner 345: My 2330 days in Guantánamo, by Sami Alhaj. Doha, Qatar: Al Jazeera Media Network, 2019. 126 pages. No ISBN. The Refugee’s Messenger: Lost Stories Retold, edited by Tarek Cherkaoui. Istanbul, Turkey: TRT World Research Centre, 2019. 192 Pages. ISBN 978-605-9984-28-7 A RECENT article in...
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ftjpjr:oai:pjr.ojs.aut.ac.nz:article/1092 2023-05-15T18:12:35+02:00 REVIEW: A symbol of all that is wrong with the ‘war on terror’: Review of Prisoner 345 and Lost Stories Retold Robie, David 2020-07-31 application/pdf https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/1092 https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v26i1.1092 eng eng Asia Pacific Network https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/1092/1363 https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/1092 doi:10.24135/pjr.v26i1.1092 Copyright (c) 2020 David Robie http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 CC-BY-NC Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa; Vol. 26 No. 1 (2020): Media freedom in Melanesia; 317-320 2324-2035 1023-9499 asylum seekers human rights journalism journalism refugees rendition reviews social justice torture war on terror info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Non-refereed Book, Web or Film Review 2020 ftjpjr https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v26i1.1092 2022-02-07T08:05:54Z Prisoner 345: My 2330 days in Guantánamo, by Sami Alhaj. Doha, Qatar: Al Jazeera Media Network, 2019. 126 pages. No ISBN. The Refugee’s Messenger: Lost Stories Retold, edited by Tarek Cherkaoui. Istanbul, Turkey: TRT World Research Centre, 2019. 192 Pages. ISBN 978-605-9984-28-7 A RECENT article in the Middle East Eye pilloried the United States lack of preparedness for the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic. Lamenting that if only the world’s richest democracy could have instead of frittering away trillions of dollars on ‘endless wars’ invested in the country’s health infrastructure, the world would be in a better place today. Washington had ‘built an entire infrastructure to counter terrorism and criminalise Muslim communities’, spending almost $6.4 trillion on pointless wars that had killed off half a million people since September 11 2011 (Hilal & Raja, 2020). Yet, which was the biggest threat – the elusive target of the so-called ‘war on terror’, or the pandemic, which killed more than 20,000 Americans and infected a further 500,000 (with numbers still rising when this edition of PJR went to press)? Article in Journal/Newspaper sami Pacific Journalism Review (Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology) Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 26 1 317 320 |
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Prisoner 345: My 2330 days in Guantánamo, by Sami Alhaj. Doha, Qatar: Al Jazeera Media Network, 2019. 126 pages. No ISBN. The Refugee’s Messenger: Lost Stories Retold, edited by Tarek Cherkaoui. Istanbul, Turkey: TRT World Research Centre, 2019. 192 Pages. ISBN 978-605-9984-28-7 A RECENT article in the Middle East Eye pilloried the United States lack of preparedness for the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic. Lamenting that if only the world’s richest democracy could have instead of frittering away trillions of dollars on ‘endless wars’ invested in the country’s health infrastructure, the world would be in a better place today. Washington had ‘built an entire infrastructure to counter terrorism and criminalise Muslim communities’, spending almost $6.4 trillion on pointless wars that had killed off half a million people since September 11 2011 (Hilal & Raja, 2020). Yet, which was the biggest threat – the elusive target of the so-called ‘war on terror’, or the pandemic, which killed more than 20,000 Americans and infected a further 500,000 (with numbers still rising when this edition of PJR went to press)? |
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