![]() ![]() If you live here and don’t listen to Democracy Now!, odds are you didn’t even know that second strike happened. Nor was I in Yemen’s Saada province a few weeks later when a Doctors Without Borders health clinic was bombed. After all, what do I know? I wasn’t there when the American gunship began firing on that hospital Doctors Without Borders ran in Kunduz, and I didn’t get there afterwards either. Usually, I try to avoid talking about our wars once I leave the office. troops dispatched to Kunduz to help Afghan forces” - I’ve never felt so close to this country’s various combat zones. drone strike kills 4 militants in Pakistan” “ U.S. As I cull through the headlines - “ Suspected U.S. It’s a disconcerting job for someone used to reporting stories on the ground. Today, I’m a news producer at Democracy Now! and, from the moment I arrive at the office, I’m scouring the wire services for the latest casualties from Washington’s war zones. Once I was a freelance reporter, spending weeks or months covering a single story. By “the dead,” I mostly mean people across the world that my government has killed or helped another nation’s government kill while I was sleeping. When I say “very early,” I mean a few minutes after four a.m., as the sky is just softening to the color of faded purple corduroy. When people ask me what my new job is like, I tell them that I wake up very early and count the dead.
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