tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15211548.post3721040498780262840..comments2011-02-12T11:07:55.539-05:00Bassam Sebtihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782175662290272238noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15211548.post-10922677564746385902011-02-09T00:08:37.532-05:002011-02-09T00:08:37.532-05:00

The heavy commercialisation of US media plus the American public's general insularity combine to spike much foreign news coverage on mainstream US TV cable news. Then, as far as the Mid East is concerned, you have the heavy bias towards Israel in the US media, which has the added effect of mitigating against Al Jaz, seen by some in the US as "terrorist supporting" etc. However, this

Benjaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01823246393666389713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15211548.post-89390274378439548852011-01-28T03:15:36.940-05:002011-01-28T03:15:36.940-05:00

Bassam, did you hear Biden&#39;s comment. I wonder if Obama will go out and correct him. Biden says that Mubarak is not a dictator. Well what ever Biden thinks here is interesting because the whole world knows Mubarak is a dictator. But US foreign policy continues to use lies, lies, lies, lies, lies.<br /><br />http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/0127/

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Bassam, it didn&#39;t surprise me in the least. the US backed the dictator, for years and years. there was no anti islam angle to the story. only democracy designed for regime change that US/IS supports (re: iran&#39;s green revolution, the velvet and orange revolutions) does the US msm cover.<br /><br />it scares them. the last thing they want is democracy in places like egypt and jordan. they

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