Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"Major U.S. news outlets are hardly inclined to be up in arms about Rumsfeld’s record of prewar deception when they remain so dainty about critiquing their own. What passes for soul-searching at the New York Times and the Washington Post is much more like autoeroticism than self-flagellation. No wonder Rumsfeld the media star is back."

"Israeli water policy in the occupied territories is also an illustration of the racial discrimination inherent in the occupation. Studies show that Israeli settlers, with no restrictions on their usage of water, on a per capita basis use 20 times more water than the average Palestinian individual."

"The pusillanimous stand of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is further proof of the power the fanatical friends of a foregn power have over American foreign policy in the Middle East."

"Israel has the requisite infrastructure to cope with its water shortages in the near term. The Palestinians, under conditions of conflict, growing anarchy and possibly separation imposed by Israel, do not."

"Australia has been variously associated with British military involvements in Iraq that date back to 1914. The “excess mortality” for Iraq has been 5.2 million (since 1950) and 1.5 million (since 1991)."

"The controlled hence abnormal political process in Pakistan faces no immediate threat of disruption. It does however raise two critical questions. One, remaining with this largely establishment-controlled democracy can the 8-point agenda, that general Musharraf had articulated and the public had supported in October 1999, be implemented. Two, can the current dispensation produce new political forces which can erase existing public support for the PPP and PML(N) leadership."

"At its core, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict comes down to extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. Those who are committed to resolving this murderous genocidal conflict should work to infuse a little rational DNA tonic into the volatile mix."

"Americans have no choice in this system. Economic elite crafted it in such a way that Americans (people) have no choice. They have to select Bush or Kerry."

"Ultimately, what happens to Wadi Salib and its future development cannot be removed from the reason why it became a dead neighborhood in the first place. The development must be gradual, there must be leadership from the Arab community, support from the Jewish community and the development must find a way of negotiating through the tensions that clearly remain."

"It's all mind-boggling to say the least. I mean, do Israelis really expect to deprive Palestinians of their liberties without criticism? We prefer nonviolence in the Middle East, so why are Church votes raising such ire?"

"This life is combination of joys and sorrows and honest efforts should be done to make this life journey of happiness, love, peace and harmony because LIFE is play/game of one innings."

"The intense anti-U.S. hatred of al Qaeda has to be ascribed to American freedom, culture, wealth, or technology, all of which cannot be changed desirably or easily. By contrast, American citizens-including U.S. athletes and spectators at future Olympics-could be made much safer by rapidly making a meddling U.S. foreign policy overseas more humble. But then the latter change would be a new form of terror-striking fear into the hearts of the U.S. foreign policy elite and the interests they represent."

"Should we make the unfortunate choice of going to war, then I demand that those who do die should as a minimum, be given a true hero's welcome when returned home. Not quietly sneaked back in to Dover Air Force Base in the dead of night with a White House-mandated media blackout serving as a nerve block to prevent the public from putting a real face of death on war."

"The Al-Sadr militia does not pose any threat to the U.S. forces. But Al-Sadr made it clear that the Americans have to leave soon. His supporters are also becoming more popular, providing needed social services in the Shi'a cities of Najaf, Kufa and Karbala in the south and at the Al-Sadr city, a suburb of Baghdad."

"Israeli governments naturally time their most controversial moves to coincide with the American elections. The more closely fought the elections, the more attractive it is for Israeli planners and adventurers."

"The assumptions that shaped US thinking during the Soviet era do not apply in the case of the Arab world today. Sharply declining Arab public attitude toward the US can not be blamed on either a lack of information or on the Arab media."

"...after a period of indeterminable length, but possibly quite short, the American way of life will fade into history. If mankind survives the related upheaval, and if future archaeologists and sociologists and anthropologists examine the remains of the former American civilization and its impact on the world, it will be determined to have been yet another blow out of an empire -- consumed with wealth accumulation, beset by corruption, and ultimately unsustainable."

"It was unfortunate that just in one year time, the founder of Pakistan Mohammed Ali Jinnah died on 11th of September, 1948 and the next to the founder and the first Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaqat Ali Khan was brutally assassinated on October 16, 1951. Since then Pakistan went into the hands of people who could not show the ability to run Pakistan according to dreams of the creators. Therefore, by looking at today’s shape of Pakistan one should not prove to condemn the decision of the creation of Pakistan."

"The “war president” now wants to be a “peace president”. In the other corner of the ring, Kerry is pumping himself up to be the “war monger president”. He will opt for a war of choice whenever he feels the urge – regardless of whether the designated enemy poses any kind of threat to the United States."

"After all, what could I say to wake up a billion Muslims after all that has already happened? I mean, what are mere words compared to real-life images and experiences of war, poverty, humiliation and destruction. What is left to suffer?"