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The Mass Media Are Soldiers in a Wider War

Rami G. Khouri | Daily Star | May 5, 2004

"Arabs are angry when they see dead Iraqi infants with half their skulls blown away due to missile strikes. The Arab satellite channels convey this reality, they don't manufacture it. If Arabs are increasingly angry at the US - which they certainly are - this is almost totally due to the consequences of US military and political policies, not the reporting of these policies by Arab television." [more]

Bush Walks Fine Line on Sadr-Hizbullah Link

Christian Henderson | Daily Star | April 15, 2004

"US President George W. Bush stopped short of accusing Hizbullah of having a direct link to Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army in his statement on the situation in Iraq, but his mention of the party comes amid increased speculation in the West over links between the two groups." [more]

A Challenge that Remains Ungrasped

Rami G. Khouri | Daily Star | September 10, 2003

"The very different forces of Islamist terrorism and American militarism operate according to peculiarly similar criteria: They see the whole world as their legitimate battlefield; they paint their actions in a context of divine mandates and existential struggles for the triumph of good over evil; they cater explicitly to their public opinions and exaggerate fears and threats from the other and, most troublingly, they repeatedly misdiagnose the motives and miscalculate the reactions of the other." [more]

US Control of Baghdad and Its Crude May Signal New Assault on OPEC

Ed Blanche | Daily Star | June 7, 2003

"With that kind of output, with low production costs attracting consumer states away from higher-cost regions like the North Sea, an Iraqi oil industry managed by US-based companies would have the capacity 'to bring OPEC to its knees,' according to Chalabi." [more]

Analysis: Energy Concerns Drive Push into Central Asia

Ed Blanche | Daily Star | March 8, 2002

"There is another reason why the US wants to stabilize Georgia, no easy task given its weak and corrupt central government. The Americans want to build a $2.9 billion, 1,530-kilometer pipeline from the Caspian Basin oilfields in Azerbaijan to Turkeyís Mediterranean terminal at Ceyhan through Georgia, sidelining Russia and Iran and extending US (along with Israeli and Turkish) influence into the former Soviet republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia." [more]

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