I am certainly no fan of Al Jazeera, Al Qaida, or Al Gore, but it is interesting to me that news that might be of concern to many Americans is routinely ignored by the major news media. The Russians are conducting joint military training operations with Venezuela. Russian bombers are there now. Joint Naval execises are planned for the near future. Not one word of this has been on Fox, CNN, or the others that I have seen or heard. But Al Jazeera covered it. All we get are silly sound bites about lipstick and pigs.