This is from one of my favorite sites. True translations of what is said by foreign countries. I’ve always been amazed by what you “find” on foreign web sites that is either ignored by the western press, or is completely opposite of what was really said.
Without the cultural exchanges between regions speaking different languages and without the ability to read the foreign press or at least to read translations of the kind we post, it would be virtually impossible to understand each other’s issues or points of view. Sadly, however, interest in foreign languages on US campuses is waning. In keeping with this, false patriotism is on the rise, the State Department ignores differences in the cultures of their client states, and Western peoples are increasingly supporting their governments’ crusades against people of different cultures, blaming these people and their cultures for the things that their own governments are doing. Read more here.