Al-Jazeera: An Island of Pro-Empire Intrigue by Sukant Chandan http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/chandan260311.html

AJE started to lose its pretence of "every angle, every side"during the reporting from Tahrir Square. Millions watched with pride, inspiration, and nervousness the battle of the masses at Tahrir with AJE playing the agit-prop role in the struggle.However there were two interrelated areas in which AJE's reporting became suspect. Firstly, few of its guests, analysts and opinion-makers,went beyond a liberal agenda. Many of the guests were from Western NGOs and think tanks,neither of which have ever made any significant contribution to the liberation of any country of the Global South

It has been,however, on the reporting of Libya and the Gulf where AJE has completely exposed its agenda, which is very much a reactionary Gulf and pro-West agenda.Still riding on the good will from the reporting in Tunisia and Egypt,in the first few days of the Libyan uprising,AJE turned all its attention and agit-prop to the Libyan rebellion and said nothing negative about the concurrent visit of British Prime M.Cameron's arm-selling trip to the Gulf -far from it,AJE actually handed over airtime to Cameron to conduct war propaganda against Libya.It was clear from that point on that AJE would do anything to protect the Gulf area from uprisings,and focus on those regimes that the West have had in their sights for regime change:Libya and Syria