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Actually, I moved the rant to Bloggernews. Might as well get paid for it. (10 cents a rant).

Pajamasmedia has a long essay by a Russian showing how US reporters misreported what was going on in Russia because they interpreted the story into a "left wing good right wing bad" template, ignoring that the nationalist anti semetic anti Western right wing had a lot more in common with the nationaistic anti semetic and western left wing, and that together they ended up destroying Russia's fragile democracy.
He then goes on to show how a similar template is destroying the will of the US in Iraq, and allowing a moral equivalence of some very very evil men in the name of objectivity.

My essay points out a similar template in Colombia (where I have relatives) and in the Philippines similarly demonizes the good in the right, ignores the bad in the left, and ignores the huge growing middle class who would suffer the most with the win of the left wing and islamicist extremists in all these countries.