As I read the tributes to slain Western journalists like Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, I cannot help but feel a huge amount of disgust. These were not courageous scribes trying their utmost to bring the truth to Western readers about the brutality of Arab tyrants.

These ‘journalists’ were tools of an imperial Western hegemonic power that tries their utmost to pull a wool over the eyes of their readers are they provided support to the corrupt, lying, murderous imperial Western hegemonic power as it dominated and subverted Arab lands in the Middle East and North Africa.

When imperial tools die, it is not a day to mourn. It is a day to celebrate. There are absolutely no redeeming qualities about the corporate-owned media in the Western world. And those that work for these corporate-owned media cannot be any more accurately described than simply ‘the scum of the Earth.’

Marie Colvin and Anthony Shadid could pay lip service to the fact that Arabs are suffering at the hands of their dictators, but they could not hide the fact that they worked war-mongering corporations that propagandized their readers into supporting immeasurable death and destruction in the Arab world. Death and destruction caused, in large part, by the United States and Israel.

Good riddance, I say.