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Al Zawraa Television broadcasts from Syria on behalf of the Sunni Baathist insurgent group, the Islamic Army of Iraq. News includes promoting anti-Shiite propaganda and graphic images of anti-American violence.
Lawrence Pintak, director of the Adham Center for Electronic Journalism in Cairo describes a bit of pre-Christmas, if post-modern, viewing fare:
In one English-language hour-long program, aired a week before Christmas but not seen since, the narrator addresses himself to President George W. Bush, referring to dead US soldiers in Iraq as "miserable nobodies." The program combines scenes of the preparation of car bombs, missile attacks and comments from alleged insurgent commanders with footage of US soldiers storming homes, torture at Abu Ghraib, scenes from "Top Gun," Bush's "mission accomplished" speech, Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" and the final evacuation of Vietnam.
According to Pintak, the head of Al Zawraa claims to have made a deal with three European satellite channels, one of which reaches American audiences. The channel is already seen throughout the Arab world, via Egyptian satellite television. Read more ...
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Pure US propaganda fantasy. .. .
Everyome outside the US knows the US vetoes in the UN and how the US admires and supports racism, terror,and religious bigorty.
And remembr these are unanimous votes.
How does it feel to be a citzen of the most evil state in the world?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2000.htm
Albanaich, What a pathetic little 1 page website you have. Did you make it in your bedroom after school? It has no credibility or sources of its misinformation. Of course that would be the case. You also seem very anti-semitic in your 1 page website. That’s your shot at your propaganda?! Sad. So while you support Islamo-Fascists that cower in caves and hide behind women and children, kill innocents, burn people alive, pervert the minds of their young children with hate of Jews, Christians and Americans, you try and make a comparison to this great nation? Here’s what you’re about: http://www.instituteforcounterterrorism.org/apage/6321.php And by the way, it feels great to be an American.
What is propaganda versus news, Albanaich? Can you offer one substantial piece of news that does not have some element of irrefutable “data” or “analysis” in it?
I think it is fairly common knowledge that, as Chomsky has said, the US is a rogue state. It is also a failed state. What kind of democracy do you have where nobody can count the votes because there is no paper trail? What kind of republic do you have where the corporations sway the government as they do? As for institutionalized racism and religious bigotry, you are on the money.
However, you go too far in your question and are out of line. Just because Dr Zalman is in the US does not mean that she advocates what is happening there. Don’t let your tongue trip up your feet.
Bob,
At least his site comes up. Repeated attempts to access your link suggest that it is down.
Does it feel good to be an American, Bob? Does it feel good to have a government that that has invaded and overthrown literally scores of democratically elected leaders in foreign countries all while giving lip-service to democracy? Perhaps you are proud of the fifty-seven times (minimum) since WW2 that the US has invaded or otherwise meddled in the affairs of sovereign states around the globe. Perhaps you like the fact that the US spends over $700 million dollars per hour in Iraq, goes into debt at a rate of $1.7 billion per day, and still refuses to help the 1 in 8 US citizens who live at or below the poverty line. Do you like your tax dollars being spent to oppress women, children, and unarmed men in Iraq? How many times must the Iraqis ask for the soldiers to leave before the US government will listen?
Further, what do you mean by anti-semitic, Bob? The ICH listing detailed the several times that the US indirectly approved and advocated militant aggression against the Lebanese, Palestinians and the League of Arab States. Last I knew, all of those were considered descendants of Shem and therefore Semites. So, I guess the US is anti-semitic, too. For what it’s worth, Albanaich’s comments are anti-Zionist, that is opposed to that form of bigotry that arose in response to the 19th century anti-Jewishness prevalent in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.
So, I am glad for you that you feel great to be an American in this twenty-first century. I am glad that you identify so strongly with a country that has oppressed and killed around the globe all in the name of spreading democracy. I guess it must feel just wonderful to support a country whose express goal since 1948 has been to ensure that the developing world never develops just so the US can have all of their natural resources (per George Kennan). It must be great to be that callous.
Read Killing Hope
Alluh,
The site link I provided is up, maybe your Islamic ISP won’t allow you to access the truth. Don’t have free speech where you live? Did you help Albanaich write his 1 page website you both so pathetically try to promote. You guys are hilarious! You quote this little 1 page website you made up as a source of relevancy. You quote these obscure comments and think you’re talking to people who don’t know their own country!
Your hatred of this country and of free people is so evident and sad. Your support for terrorism is a blight upon this earth. The US defeated fascism against the Nazis and we will defeat it against you and your kind.
And yes I am proud to be an American and the good for which we stand. And you seem to be proud to support the cowardice and murder of innocent people in terror. You and your kind will not shame the United States with your pathetic attempts at propaganda. We are nothing like you.
You must feel great teaching small children to hate Jews, Christians and Americans. You must feel wonderful supporting the tenets of terror in promoting your fascist oppressive beliefs. While you take advantage of the benefits of our society and freedom, like free speech, to attack us, know that we understand you, the hate you have for us, and your “pretense toward piety.”
Bob,
It seems plain that you have little interest in critically considering your own viewpoint, never mind that of others. I will not stoop to painting with the broad strokes of unsupported logic that you do. Suffice it to say that anyone who has studied American history knows that the US government is not interested in democracy — not in its own country and certainly not abroad.
As for US involvement abroad, recall that nobody lifted a finger against Germany prior to its invasion of Poland in 1939. The sundry laws that put Hitler in power were in effect long before then, but nobody cared – about anti-Jewishness or any of it. It was not until he started to negatively impact the economic concerns in Poland and the rest of Europe that something “had” to be done.
So, no, the US did not defeat fascism; it absorbed it. If you want to dispute that, please explain the hundreds – if not thousands – of German intelligence agents and military officers who were seconded from Germany and brought to the US as advisors after WW2.
For what good does America stand, Bob? Sacrificing the future of its own children for a temporary convenience by raising the national debt to over 75% of the entire output of the country per year? On a personal level, US personal debt equals over 66% of the nation’s GDP. Is that taking care of your children?
Perhaps by good you mean how it lets its own citizens sit in squalor like New Orleans while it pours white phosphorous by the helicopter load on defenseless women and children in Fallujah. Did you know that that is a war crime, Bob? According to the Geneva Conventions, no one is allowed to dump white phosphorous on people. Just like water-boarding and kidnapping of civilians is verboten. But then the US does not seem to care much about its international agreements these days.
As for hating, I teach children to hate actions and attitudes, not people. As far as I know, the only place in the world that routinely labelled people and stirred their children and public to hate them as people is the US. Whether red, yellow, or black, the US has institutionalised levels of prejudice against them all. It is historic. And, what is worse, the US will not address it. Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt anymore, Bob.
Finally, Bob, it would be good if, in your next post, you actually dialogued with my comments instead of reacting to the propaganda-borne presuppositions you have about my person because of my handle. Put another way, if you want to continue this dialogue, contribute more light than heat.
PS: Your site still does not work, and my ISP is one of the largest in the world.
Someday spring will return, and a new dialogue will flower upon the land. And and the arrows of intellect will bring life, not death; and sweet understanding will be as a gentle rain.