Dont believe the hype! One obvious difference between the two - TopicsExpress



          

Dont believe the hype! One obvious difference between the two leaders was that Chávez was elected and Abdullah was not. Another is that Chávez used the nation’s oil resources to attempt to improve the lives of the nation’s most improverished while Abdullah used his to further enrich Saudi oligarchs and western elites. Another is that the severity of Abdullah’s human rights abuses and militarism makes Chávez look in comparison like Gandhi. But when it comes to western political and media discourse, the only difference that matters is that Chávez was a US adversary while Abdullah was a loyal US ally – which, by itself for purposes of the US and British media, converts the former into an evil villainous monster and the latter into a beloved symbol of peace, reform and progress. For a further summary of the Kings legacy, here is another great article: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/23/saudi-arabias-king-misremembered-man-peace/
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:33:07 +0000

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