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Start the Revolution Without Me

Reason writers around town: At the Beirut Daily Star, Chuck Freund goes to the movies, and finds some surprising revisions of Algeria's anti-colonial foundation myth.

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Jean Bart|8.20.03 @ 4:31AM|

France, the United States, and the Algerian War

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9075.html

Kevin Carson|8.20.03 @ 5:10AM|

�to obliterate the idea of all memory other than newly minted official memory, to destroy any narrative that goes beyond idolatry, beyond the superficial image captured in a sound bite or an orchestrated video clip.�

That sounds pretty much like what the mainstream media does domestically, although for the most part without reference to any conscious design. The main forces behind the phenomenon, rather, are the ideological mindset of journalists and the imperatives of providing infotainment.

Speck Will|9.10.04 @ 12:27AM|

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