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Killing Live 8, Noisily: The G-8, Liberal Dissent And The London Bombings, Sheila Carapico
Killing Live 8, Noisily: The G-8, Liberal Dissent And The London Bombings, Sheila Carapico
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The organizers of Live 8, the week-long, celebrity-driven musical campaign for increased aid and debt relief for poverty-stricken nations, plugged their July 6 concert in an Edinburgh stadium as "a celebration of the largest and loudest cry to make poverty history the world has ever seen." By rush hour the next morning, four coordinated bombings in the London transit system had stolen the show from the wellorchestrated international extravaganza and handed the microphone to Tony Blair and George W. Bush. Talk about a vast right-wing conspiracy: the London terrorists could not have done more to strengthen the hand of the …