A Tiny Revolution: I Happen to Have Marshall McLuhan Right Here
a post from Jonathan Schwarz at A Tiny Revolution following up on the Time Magazine/Alex Perry/FAIR skirmish – includes book excerpts from Larry Devlin, the CIA guy in the Congo at the time of Lumumba’s overthrow and this disturbing/racist excerpt from a 1960 Time Magazine story about Lumumba –
The drums and tom-toms grew quiet. The last writhing dancers fell exhausted in the dust… With a primeval howl, a nation of 14 million people reverted to near savagery, plunged backward into the long night of chaos. Tribe turned upon tribe. Blacks turned upon Europeans..
evidently the Congo got Mobutu because The West needed, um .. cobalt! – Ooga booga ooga booga!! – mab .. read more
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