Archive for December 24, 2003
For those who care: a link to my interview earlier this week on Flashpoints. (Thanks to Nico. Nico, is not a rapper, but has his own blog.) Even George W. Bush has his own blog now; click HERE to read it.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Powerful pictures from Iraq by Nir Rosen. (thanks Nir).
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Iran says that it will retaliate if attacked by Israel. Notice how the US press will make this an unprovoked Iranian threat, and will not mention that Israel was the first to issue the threat.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Christopher Hitchens is also caught in a lie. A big lie.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Paul Bremer, the colonial viceroy of Iraq, is certifiably a liar when he states that US did not harm the Iraqi infra-structure. (Usually, perhaps because both of my parents are lawyers, I add “allegedly”, but not this time.)
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
US occupation versus the press in Iraq.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Class struggle 101. (The Holiday season always reminded me of class inequalities.)
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Why do Americans favor tax policies that favor the wealthy?
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Tony Judt is in trouble: he dared to call for a bi-national state.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Colin Powell, who will go down in history as the person who gave that speech, anthology of lies and fabrications really, at the UN would like you to know that Bush, has a vision for a “better world.” It may be true, but the question remains: better for whom?
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
The law of war in the “war on terrorism”.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
The FOGS of war: what happened in the Iraqi museum, for example? But I wish the dead Iraqi civilians got the attention that the Sumerian relics received.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Are these leftist professors (including Edward W. Said and Henry Louis Gates) sexist? I think that they may be but her evidence is not compelling (not in the interview anyway.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Israel not only arrests and kills suspects, but it also gives itself the right to arrest (or kill) relatives of suspects. Notice that US occupation in Iraq is playing by Israel’s playbook, as if Zionism has been a great success in the subjugation of a displaced people. Did you hear human rights organizations calling for [...]
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Even the thuggish warlords of Afghanistan (US favorite allies) are fed up with the dictatorial ambitions of Hamid Karzai, America’s favorite dictator-in-the-making.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Freedom of Speech at Baghdad High school.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
“CARLSON: Well, actually, I didn’t deal with a lot of soldiers… We stayed in a house in Baghdad and saw almost no soldiers… In the drive from Kuwait into Baghdad, I didn’t see a single American soldier from the Kuwait border all the way until I got to the CNN bureau at the Palestine Hotel. [...]
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Will’s article on Sharon’s ultimatum. Will is also a rapper.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
Palestinians are in a state of despair.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad
The neo-con group that urged for years for a war on Iraq, now wants a war against Libya.
Posted on December 24, 2003 by As'ad