Clinton: "Al Jazeera Is Real News"
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Al Jazeera was gaining more prominence because it offered "real news" -- something she said American media were falling far short of doing. Speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Clinton said the US was losing the "information war." Other countries and global news outlets, she said, were making inroads into places like the Middle East more effectively than the United States. One of the reasons she cited for this was the quality of channels like Al Jazeera. The channel, she said, was "changing peoples' minds and attitudes. And like it or hate it, it is really effective." US news, she added, was not keeping up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830890.html
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A year after entering the Swat Valley, Pakistan's army has begun to scale down its operations in the region. One of the big challenges they face now is to reintegrate some of the men, who were once considered the enemy, back into mainstream society. Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reports from Swat Valley.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/02/2011223183136464957.html
Al Jazeera Revolution
It is hard to imagine the revolutions in the Middle East without Al Jazeera. The channel gave a boost to the protesters and was essential in bringing people out. Thanks to Al Jazeera, you can hear the same chants shouted by demonstrators in Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain, and elsewhere. Al Jazeera helped save lives and forced international media to act. In Libya, as in Egypt, Al Jazeera has been shaping public opinion, challenging people. Al Jazeera is strongest when it can talk to the people it is covering. Iranians are not watching Al Jazeera. This is why it is so exciting that Al Jazeera will soon have channels in Turkish and Swahili. The Saudis, former Egyptian regime, Gaddafi, and many Arab dictators despise Al Jazeera as do those seen as collaborating with American hegemony or with Israel. Al Jazeera is the new Gamal Abdel Nasser, the nationalist force uniting the Arab world.
http://nirrosen.tumblr.com/post/3446734611/the-unstoppable-revolutionary-power-of-al-jazeera
Gaddafi: "It is raining"
Al Jazeera broke into Libyan state TV showing Gaddafi in a jeep, donning a Russian fur hat and struggling with a ginormous umbrella. He said: "I want to have some rest. I was talking to the young men at Green Square; I wanted to stay the night with them, but then it started to rain. I wanted to show them that I am in Tripoli, not in Venezuela. Don't believe those dogs in the media."
Europe's Libyan Connection
For decades, the Arab world has settled for corrupt, ignorant, treacherous despots as their leaders. For a generation, and in some cases two, Arabs lived in constant fear of expressing dissent, a fear so crippling it deemed them useless, incompetent and ultimately irrelevant . But the region has now been revived by its youth who have shown in Tunisia, Egypt, and now Libya that they know no fear, that they would rather die standing than live on their knees.
Still, the West fails to understand that they can not continue to do business with dictators and still say it is "friends of the people." The EU buys 79% of Libya's oil. US companies have practically taken over parts of Libya in recent years as the "free world" began to flirt with Gaddafi in the most scandalous of relationships. How can Europe put pressure on the Libyan government to immediately stop the butchering of innocent civilians when 10% of Europe's oil originates in Libya?
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/21/what-next-mad-dog-libya
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