You have my sympathy Shirl and I hope things get better in your country. I am glad we have a Zimbabwean here to verify what's happeining in her own country. I've given up relying on the mass media for unbiased information on anything. It is a fact that the US and its stooges manipulate the mass media to cover up their agendas win over public opinion SOMETIMES based on false information (e.g.Iraq invasion), but almost always pointing the finger at their prey for allegedly abusing human rights when they themselves have supported the most wicked tyrannts known to modern history (Islam Karimov, Saddam Hussein (paradoxically) to mention a few). Being half sudanese, I can confirm that the recent arrest warrant issued for the sudanese President is one such manipulation pointing a finger at him for committing "Genocide" whereas the problem is much more diverse than to be simplified into blaming the president for all the woes in Darfur. It would be interesting, although unimaginable, for the western media to portray US interests in the recent oil discoveries in Sudan which "coincide" with their attention to internal affairs in the country and the subsequent pressure on Sudan to allocate contracts to US oil firms instead of the chinese firms that have been preferred by the sudanese gov based on their competitive offers. As one kashmiri activist was told by a visiting congressman off the record after asking for US assistance in their political struggle for independance, "you got to discover oil first".
You have my sympathy Shirl and I hope things get better in your country. I am glad we have a Zimbabwean here to verify what's happeining in her own country. I've given up relying on the mass media for unbiased information on anything. It is a fact that the US and its stooges manipulate the mass media to cover up their agendas win over public opinion SOMETIMES based on false information (e.g.Iraq invasion), but almost always pointing the finger at their prey for allegedly abusing human rights when they themselves have supported the most wicked tyrannts known to modern history (Islam Karimov, Saddam Hussein (paradoxically) to mention a few). Being half sudanese, I can confirm that the recent arrest warrant issued for the sudanese President is one such manipulation pointing a finger at him for committing "Genocide" whereas the problem is much more diverse than to be simplified into blaming the president for all the woes in Darfur. It would be interesting, although unimaginable, for the western media to portray US interests in the recent oil discoveries in Sudan which "coincide" with their attention to internal affairs in the country and the subsequent pressure on Sudan to allocate contracts to US oil firms instead of the chinese firms that have been preferred by the sudanese gov based on their competitive offers. As one kashmiri activist was told by a visiting congressman off the record after asking for US assistance in their political struggle for independance, "you got to discover oil first".