Archive for May 31, 2004
For those who care, I can be heard live or on-line on Democracy Now tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5:05AM (Pacific Time) 8:05AM Eastern Time. The topic is Saudi Arabia.
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
From a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish (my translation): “Oh, ye homeland, repeated in massacres and songs Point out to me the source of death Is it the dagger or the lie?”
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
From Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish’s poem A State of Siege (my translation): “…He says at the edge of death: I have no footstep for loss, Free I am near my freedom and my future is in my hands… and I shall enter, soon, my life and will be born free without parents, and will choose [...]
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
US women lag in elected office
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
And who brought democracy to Afghanistan? The US of course, why do you ask? Karzai is alleged to have given cabinet posts to warlords in exchange for support in upcoming vote.
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
THIS IS ZIONISM: 111 Palestinians killed by Israei army in May alone
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
Nobody likes the House of Saud, but they are rarely criticized
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
And who brought Democracy to Iraq? US did, of course. Why do you ask? Bremer threatens to veto Iraqis’ choice of president
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
This is very cool: An A-Z of the Iraq war and its aftermath, focusing on misrepresentation, manipulation, and mistakes
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
Western media talk about this as if there is no domestic violence in the West: Saudi guilty of assaulting TV presenter wife
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
Economic reforms mean: Russia’s poorest face huge cuts in benefits
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
This ignorant and prejudiced writer in Slate.com thinks that the racist and ignorant author of the Arab Mind is sympathetic to the Arabs. He is writing a book on Arab culture too.
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
I’M EXPLAINING A FEW THINGS by Pablo Neruda (tr. Nathaniel Tarn) Treacherous generals: see my dead house, look at broken Spain : from every house burning metal flows instead of flowers, from every socket of Spain Spain emerges and from every dead child a rifle with eyes, and from every crime bullets are born which [...]
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad
Brenda has written the following poem culled together with words from the comments’ section of this site: COLLABORATION (?) -taken from comments on a politically charged blog Somehow the suffering and death and all their fat American asses hurt your feelings if there is a country sabotaged stripped we are being locked up hard to [...]
Posted on May 31, 2004 by As'ad