"The U.S. news media have very little appetite for stories about Arabs who don't carry knives, shoot machine guns, launch grenades, or talk on gold-plated cell phones". Middle-east correspondent Rami G. Khouri " News about the Egyptian workers' struggle never reaches European media." Eg ypt : The Victory of Mahalla Workers Exposes the Weakness of Mubarak's Regime The Militancy of Mahalla al-Kubra Background interview and article >> Listen to the interview >> Read article US Imperialism and the Iranian Regime: Ready for War or Peace? >> Listen to the talk , part of MEP show of 04 October 2007 Recent interviews Middle East Panorama on Resonance FM Radio Wednesday between 21:00 to 22:00 GMT (repeated on Sunday between 12:00 - 13:00 GMT) 104.4 FM or www.resonancefm.com
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51