I visited the website of Aljazeera English this morning, and discovered something that surprised me.  The live videos I used to watch in order to learn a different point of view of what was happening in the Middle East are blocked and can’t be watched from America.  Why?  What for? By whom?  If I go to america.aljazeera.com the videos I want to see aren’t there – at least I didn’t find them.  I did find some reports on Iraq, though, that were infinitely better than anything I’ve seen at the New York Times or the Washington Post, both of seem to be just echoing the administration or the neocon lines.

I can still read the reports at Aljazeera English, so I guess maybe I shouldn’t panic, but it sure was odd and a bit creepy to have this box or something like it pop up with each video:

I have been so short of time to spend on this blog, or doing the research of Middle East happenings that I’ve been doing for so long that others may well have picked this up long before I ever found it.  It makes me feel that the talk of the loss of our freedoms here in the US, is not at all just talk.  What’s happened to freedom of information?  What else are they trying to hide?  What’s happened to the media in this country?