I have just come back from a two week trip to India, having stopped over at Dubai both on the way out andback. While still a comfortable distance from Iraq, the Gulf Emirates and even India felt much closer to thefull horror of the Anglo-American invasion. Satellite and cable television ensured that the presence of BBCand CNN could be felt in a Calcutta restaurant and a Dubai café. But the availability of numerous alternativelocal television channels, newspapers, and above all the animated discussion in the streets suddenly made merealise what a bliss it was to be out of the suffocating shield of Anglo-American propaganda that passes, withgrim irony, as ‘free press’ in the West.