>Syria Special: The Media Creates the "Al Qa'eda Myth"
Complementary to Joanna Paraszczuk's analysis of this week's media coverage of a supposed merger between "Al Qa'eda in Iraq" and the Syrian insurgent faction Jabhat al-Nusra, I offer an eight-minute critique of how the "Al Qa'eda myth" has entrenched itself in US foreign policy and is now being promoted by the media to explain developments in Syria.