Jackowski: War, occupation and massacre
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Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Rosemarie Jackowski, an advocacy journalist and peace activist who is the author of “Banned in Vermont.”
The latest massacre in Afghanistan is just one more in a long history of U.S. atrocities. Most of these acts by U.S. troops go unnoticed &#; hardly rating a mention on the nightly news. Why has this news report broken through the wall of silence? And why is there a media reaction to it? The media has ignored so many other atrocities.
When interviewed by Leslie Stahl on CBS, &#;60 Minutes&#; (May 12, ), Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stated that the deaths of , Iraqi children were worth it. There was hardly a ripple of concern about Albright&#;s statement. Maybe it is just luck and timing that c
I love words. So I love to read and have been writing since I could hold a pencil. Some day, I'll put all those scribbled journals into a novel or memoir. For now, I'm happy to write about how others influenced the world. I blog at and review books at I started to teach music when I was 13, kept teaching when I got married to a nice guy, and had a lot of students while we raised four kids. I got a music degree, did other undergrad and grad work, and became more and more curious about how others lived. My husband and I began to teach in Asia during summers off. In my 40s, I decided to quit teaching music and tried a few jobs - including more than five years as alumni director of Northwest University in Seattle. Then in my early 50s, I went back to school for a post-grad degree (a Ph D in Intercultural Studies). At AGTS in Missouri, my profs taught us to do good research and appreciate the dreams and influences of migrants and intercultural workers. My cohort was full of expats who traveled, lived, and served around the world. How exciting - and useful. Surprise! Today, my husband and I live in Indonesia, a wonderful tropical base for teaching in universities and seminar
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