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justinsb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-05 09:36 AM
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Edited on Sat Jun-25-05 09:40 AM by justinsb
Although these sources are demonized and ridiculed in the US, the news sources that dismiss them are now certainly no better. True they have their own bias, they all see things a little differently but to say that they knowingly lie would be untrue. Many of their facts I think you could honestly say are facts and these, at least, do not seem to be as facinated with trivia, star power and 'trials of the century'. They will also deliver news that the US msm ignores

http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage - the English version of al Jazeera

http://english.pravda.ru/ - the English version of the Russian Pravda

From Today: "The Americans are not in control, they control their bases, they travel around in huge convoys, they bully people in the streets, making fun of them and humiliating them in public. Not even Saddam's security forces did that. If there is an incident they have no problem destroying a whole block and those living inside it rather than to confront the enemy"

And of course there are these, which may be a little more 'comfortable' for Americans but are also better sources of information that the US MSM

www.cbc.ca/news/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

http://www.abc.net.au/news/default.htm

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