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Saudi Censorship
Nov 7 2009, Marco Villa

The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously described as “moderate” in the uncritical U.S. press - if the biggest censor in the Arab...

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