Today I saw that the news had finally covered something on the genocide in Sudan.
"Media coverage of the ongoing genocide in Darfur has been woefully inadequate. The Center for American Progress found that during June 2005, CNN, FOX News, NBC/MSNBC, ABC, and CBS ran 50 times as many stories about Michael Jackson and 12 times as many stories about Tom Cruise as they did about the genocide in Darfur."
Bush pressures Sudan on Darfur, citing possible US sanctions.
Bush said he would give Mr. Bashir "a short period of time." If Mr. Bashir doesn't comply, Bush said he would direct the Treasury Department to block transactions between the Sudanese government, something that should have been enforced a long time ago. Bush also threatened to bar 29 Sudanese companies from doing business in the US. Bush threatened to also impose sanctions against individuals that were responsible for the violence. I am interested to see if Ms. Rice will seek any new sanctions from the United Nations.
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i wonder what the 29 businesses there are in the Sudan that would suffer if they were disallowed to do business here in the US. sanctions against those businesses would only bring about political change if the 29 organizations hold a great deal of influence in the Sudanese government and would suffer greatly if they lost ties to the US. otherwise, it would be a futile attempt to bring about change in the Sudan, and more than likely would just further damage the economy and therefore bring about more suffering in the country.
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