Who is Hillary Clinton to say Assad must go?

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44. Who is "the middle east media"? Just as our home media slants coverage toward certain political

and class interests, so does "the middle east media".

For example, Arab Media Group is part of Dubai Holding, which belongs to the government of Dubai, and 97% of it to one man, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the PM and VP of UAE, who is married to the daughter of King Hussein of Jordan, among his many family and business connections to "royalty" throughout the ME.

Al Jazeera, which was played up as some kind of "radical" news outlet during 911, is owned by Qatar Media Corporation, which is itself owned by the state of Qatar, and specifically by the Al-Thani family. It was the emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who put up the money to found Al-Jazeera.

The ruling class of the Middle East controls its media, and they're a tight little group organized along familial lines. And as they were often installed and supported by western powers, they maintain financial, business and political links to western powers.

I'll add that most of these revolts have as much to do with conflicts between big players, both domestic (ME ruling families) and foreign (big-power rivalries fought by proxy) as they do with the spontaneous actions and desires of "the people".