Letters to the Editor, January 28, 2004

Sami

Greetings,

PLEASE continue the fine work, which allows those of us in the US to receive non-US/Zionist slanted news.

Jeff Hunt

It is important that the World media try to cover the U.S. Primaries and General Election as the U.S. media is predominantly controlled by the Neo-Cons in the Whitehouse. Please make every effort to cover the 2004 election in as much depth as possible. The survival of our Democracy depends on the world media covering this election.

The U.S. right-wing Media Propagandists are doing their best to insure that the weakest Democratic candidate will be the nominee. The primary practitioners of right-wing propaganda are Fox News (a.k.a. Faux News), CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC, Washington Times, New York Post, and to a slightly lesson extent, ABC, CBS, Washington Post, and the New York Times.

First they were reporting all Howard Dean and even contributing money to his campaign to the maximum amount allowed. Then when Dean stated looking weak, they started pushing Kerry in New Hampshire and Edwards in South Carolina. The man they fear the most is Wesley Clark as he would run the strongest campaign against Bush. When they aren't ignoring Clark, they are attacking him. Check out today's issue (Jan 27) of the Wall Street Journal for an editorial by Peggy Noonan. It is a total smear of Clark.

Tony Leiker

Lubbock, TX

It IS pitiable to watch, the way the Western news media (mouthpiece for war - governments (criminals)) is trying to level down the priority of WMD for starting the bombardment of Iraq.

It IS and it WAS, from the beginning, a phony/illegal war and shall be prosecuted / written to the history books accordingly whatever the collaborationists are muttering.

My name is Lindsay Coleman. I am a student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. I am desperately trying to write an article on the wall being built in Israel. I am in dire need of pictures. I was wondering if you would allow me to reproduce one or two of the images on your website for my article. They, of course, would be accredited to you. I am not a journalist by trade, I am a law student. Yet I feel very passionate about this story and think it deserves more Canadian media attention. As such, I implore your organization to please allow me to use a few of the images in your possession of the wall as they are pertinent to my article. I do not concede that the article will in fact be published, but I will try and submit it to any paper that would publish it. No one is talking about this huge issue in Canada, and I think it is time the Canadian media does make the country of Canada aware.

Thank you for you co-operation.

Lindsay Coleman

Editor: Al-Jazeerah is using the photos on Fair Use basis. Go ahead and use them with the proper accreditation. God bless your effort.

Ending the democracy deficit in the Muslim world By Richard Haass, in The Straits Times, Singapore

It is difficult to believe any altruistic motives that could be attributed to the US efforts to promote democracies in Arab/Muslim world. Americans mince no words spelling out that all their policies and strategies are strictly in the best interest of their own country. America's best interest in dealings with other countries is to have 'friendly governments' which is much simpler if the countries are ruled by dictators. They have only to tackle the one on the top. They are not supposed to bother what the people think or demand. Examples are galore, but Pakistan is more obvious one. So under such circumstances, why HAAS is lamenting the democracy deficit in Muslim world?

The only plausible answer could be that given other experiences around the world, US strategists may feel, it is much more easy and less obvious, when the US sponsored and managed 'mass movements' usher in a regime change. Georgia recently and Serbia earlier are the best example of a democratic 'regime change', all for the benefit of the US imperial power.

The theory and practice of US regime change should be the first order of study for the third world, to protect their society and their freedom from the excesses of the rampaging Americans.