Mohammed bin Salman, who seems to be running Saudi Arabia these
days, is one of the bad guys. If he were a good guy, he wouldn’t have attacked
his neighboring country, Yemen. He wouldn’t be committing war crimes there in
conjunction with vital U.S. support. If he were a good guy, he’d respect not
only the rights of females but also the rights of everyone else.
Based upon some cursory
research, all that I have time for at the moment, I suggest that the dominant
media in America are biased in their reporting about this political potentate.
I searched Google using “Mohammed bin Salman 2016”. You can check me. I found
headlines with terms like this: “…the prince trying to wean Saudi Arabia off
oil”, “shatters decades of Royal tradition”, “plotting to try and take over as
the country’s new king by the end of 2016”, “buys £452m yacht”, “Mohammed Bin
Salman seems to have won a power struggle in the Kingdom”, “The 30-year-old
prince who is changing the world”, “just pushed through a bold package of
reforms”, “Prince Muhammad Bin Salman Three-Pronged Approach to
Counter-Terrorism”, “Saudi deputy crown prince to visit the United States”,
“Obama hosts Saudi Prince Salman at White House” and “Saudi Arabia Prince
Mohammed Bin Salman To Visit Silicon Valley”.
The preceding articles mainly
sell bin Salman as progressive, modern, bold, daring, and innovative. They
paint him as a great guy with youthful energy. His age is almost always
mentioned.
You would not know that he
started a war against Yemen unless you searched on “saudi aggression on yemen
2016”. Then you’d find some headlines like these: “Airstrikes on Yemen funeral
kill at least 140 people”, “U.N. experts warn Saudi-led coalition allies over
war crimes in Yemen”, “Yemen conflict: The view from the Saudi side”, “US/Saudi
Aggression in Yemen Celebrated by Co-Aggressor UAE”, “Why Saudi Arabia Is
Continuing Its War In Yemen”, “Saudi-Led Coalition Says It Bombed Yemen Funeral
Based on False …”, and “Why is Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen”.
Some of these war-oriented
articles are justifying the Saudi aggression. One article explains that bombing
the funeral procession can be blamed on false intelligence. The man’s name who
is responsible for all this is not in these headlines.
Nowadays, the press is busy
associating Yemen with Iran in order to justify Saudi aggression. However, it
is reluctantly being forced to acknowledge the Saudi starvation strategy. The
spread of cholera and the rising number of deaths is the attention-getter after
2 years.
Had the dominant press
recognized and reported the Saudi aggression for what it was in 2015, the image
of bin Salman would have been entirely different. Today he’s being celebrated
in these media as a liberalizer, even a populist. He’s letting women drive
cars! Think of that! He must be okay. He must be a good guy.
He’s not. Good guys do not
kill with the left hand while distributing Thanksgiving turkeys with the right
hand. That’s what neighborhood gangsters and Mafia do. Bin Salman is a
gangster. He’s a bad guy.
ADDENDUM:
9 hours after this was written, an article in The Duran confirms
the media bias.
Michael
S. Rozeff [send
him mail] is a retired Professor of Finance living in East Amherst,
New York. He is the author of the free e-book Essays on
American Empire: Liberty vs. Domination and the free
e-book The
U.S. Constitution and Money: Corruption and Decline.
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