Sportswriter Dave Zirin: Prayers for the People in Boston, Baghdad and Mogadishu
ANGLO AMERICA, MILITARISM, JUSTICE, SPORTS, SHORT VIDEO CLIPS, 22 Apr 2013
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Sports editor Dave Zirin of The Nation magazine responds to the Boston Marathon bombings and discusses the race’s historic significance.
“First, prayers for the people in Boston, Baghdad and Mogadishu who are suffering today,” Zirin said. “Second, I think people have to realize that an attack on the Boston Marathon is really an attack not on Boston or the United States, but on the world.”
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