Blog #4: Anti-War Voices

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 Anti-War Sources

    The two anti-war websites antiwar.com and theamericanconservative.com are two sources where you can find information and news on everything do to with foreign policy and anti-war articles. The only thing is, I and probably many other people have never heard of such sites that have information regarding something as good as being against war. The reason behind this lies within our media. Not only do our common media sources not take note of websites like this, they don't even cover information that has to do with anything being against war. The reason behind this is that they wish to get the highest ratings in order to bring in more revenue and more attention to their company. Why would they cover something being against war when they could promote half true information that hints towards a war or some violent act that would then pull in more ratings? 

    While these websites mostly cover things to do with foreign policy, they also cover information of violent acts that occurred in other countries. However, the difference between these articles and those covered by mainstream media is that these sources don't have their own political leanings added on to the story to make it go one way or another, they rather just have the plain facts and information on people it affects. For example take this article on the bombardment of a Taiz school. All this article covers is who was injured/killed, some background on the area, and how it affects innocent lives. If something like this was covered by a mainstream source you could probably expect half the facts and something some political figure in the U.S. said at some point in order to make them look bad. 

Child killed, 5 civilians injured in coalition shelling on school in Yemen's Taiz
Aftermath from the bombardment in Taiz

   

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