-US VISION FOR LEBANON UNDER SCRUTINY/ New World Media Watch

[Gloria]

Full excerpts, links up now at http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical
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Attention!! Now Bush is pissing off.....Iceland!!!


WORLD MEDIA WATCH For July 23, 2003


1//The Independent, UK--NATO FACES RIFT OVER US PLAN TO REMOVE JETS FROM ICELAND (To make matters worse Reykjavik was informed of the politically sensitive decision in May on the eve of parliamentary elections in which the outgoing Prime Minister, David Oddsson, was returned with a sharply reduced majority. Mr Oddsson has hinted that, if the US does remove the jets, America will have to end its military presence in Iceland. That would not be palatable to the Pentagon which has 1,200 naval staff in the country from which it operates four P-3C Orion antisubmarine aircraft as part of its reconnaissance of the North Atlantic, a task it still regards as a high priority.)



2//Asia Times Online, Hong Kong—COMMENTARY: PERFIDIOUS ALBION AND THE LYING AMERICAN (As the gap grows between the facts on the ground in Iraq and the facts in the air of Washington and London, even the media proprietors who have willingly retold the lies, and fashioned many of their own - men such as Conrad Black and Rupert Murdoch - will recognize the noses on their faces, and smell the way the wind is blowing. By themselves, Time's Saigon correspondent in 1972, and his New York editor, couldn't stop the bombing campaign in Vietnam. By himself, David Kelly couldn't stop the Iraq war. That is going to require a great deal more transfer of treasure, and loss of blood. Perfidious Blair and lying Bush aren't the kind of people who ask themselves whether this is really the kind of world in which they want to live.)



3//Al Bawaba, Jordan--IRAQ COUNCIL THREATENS TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST ARAB SATELLITE CHANNELS (The spokesman, whose party is headed by governing council member, Ahmad Chalabi, said, “What these channels are doing is not pure media but rather an implementation of a pre-planned project. “I would like to affirm to you that the Iraqi people will not allow such a ‘plan’ to continue,” he told Al Bawaba. He added, “these channels give no consideration to the feelings of the Iraqi people who have just emerged from a critical situation nor do they care for the country’s current circumstances.”)



4//The Daily Star, Lebanon--US VISION FOR LEBANON UNDER SCRUTINY (The growing American enthusiasm for a full Syrian military withdrawal from Lebanon prompts the questioning of the US administration’s motives and plans for the country… According to Qornet Shehwan Gathering member Samir Franjieh, Lebanon’s interests do not top the American agenda. “What’s noteworthy in Powell’s statement is that there is an agenda that is being proposed to the Syrians, and we know nothing about the content of this agenda, only that it includes some points about Lebanon,” he said.)



5//The Moscow Times, Russia--U.S. ENERGY DELEGATION IN MURMANSK (Demonstrating the United States' intensifying interest in Russian fuel resources, a high-level U.S. Energy Department delegation on Tuesday visited Murmansk, the Barents Sea port from which Washington eventually hopes to import Russian crude…The Bush administration has advocated the construction of an oil pipeline from oil-rich western Siberia to Murmansk, the country's only northern ice-free port, but private funding for the project would be necessary and the Russian government has been hesitant to cede its grip on the country's pipeline network.)

[realFedUp]

1. hmmm, wonder how living in Iceland would be.....

:-)