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In a scathing critique, a Saudi writer charged Arab media largely avoids serious critique of Arab society and instead takes the easy way out by simply cursing the United States.

"Arab writers and columnists have a tendency to affirm populist notions, whether they're good, bad, factual or false," wrote Abdul Rahman Al-Habib of the Saudi daily Al-Watan in the English-language Arab News, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.

The Arab media writes "what people want to hear," he said, and invariably end up with a common scapegoat.
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A majority of people said the middle class, the self-employed and small businesses pay too much in taxes, the poll found. And they think those with high incomes and big businesses don't pay enough.
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Back in the office after another meeting at the TOC (tactical operations center), which is our brigade headquarters. Everything on our battlefield is tracked there. We just moved into this TOC last week; the old TOC was too small for the number of soldiers working there. The new facility is huge, and looks exactly like the picture of military headquarters in the movies.

Inside the TOC we have numerous plasma-screen TVs and some large projections screens, the kind Dr. Evil would use to demand large sums of money. During the nearly four months it took us to build the new TOC, it earned the nickname Death Star. However, those of us with a sense of humor called it Spaceball One.
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