Archive for August 4, 2004
Allegory of Heavenly and Earthly Drunkenness (Sultan Muhammad, Persian, 1526) (Angry Arab particularly likes this one).
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
In a garden pavilion (Persian, 16th century)
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
The Garden of Husayn Bayqara (Bihzad, Persian, 1480)
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
“A SAUDI prince lavished nearly $US130,000 ($185,000) of fine jewellery on US President George W. Bush, his wife, children and top aides in 2003.”
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
FAIR: Media Pack Stick to the Script at DNC .
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
No way! Municipal elections across Saudi Arabia, the first such polls in decades, have been pushed back two months to November.
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
Abused Iraqi Detainees Said to Hold No Intelligence Value.
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
THIS IS US “LIBERATION”: “Water Offers Deadly Relief in a Blistering Iraqi Slum: Typhoid and hepatitis E run rampant because sewage has tainted nearly the entire supply.
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
Women step forward in West Bank.
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
One more post on this outrage: Children in (US) Iraqi prisons.
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
Unique images of England’s ‘unseen’ urban poor are unearthed in Tasmanian museum.
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
Famous names speak up for Chavez in Venezuela poll.
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
The new Iraq policy in an election year seems to be “let Iraqis kill other Iraqis”: Fighting in Mosul between Iraqi puppet police and insurgents. (Civilians were also killed, of course).
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
Corporations for Kerry (and he cannot be happier).
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
“Repeated abuses allegedly suffered by three British prisoners at the hands of US interrogators and guards in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba could amount to war crimes, the Red Cross said yesterday.”
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
Neal (like others) have asked me to break down my long posts into paragraphs. To that I said: No. He also suggested that I start doing audio posts (a new feature). To that I said: maybe.
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
Huntington is at it again, against the Latino immigrants.
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
Anything for the US president: Saudis spearhead attempt to dampen oil prices.
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
Fox News is hilarious, in a crazy kind of way. It is playing outside as I am updating the blog. I often listen to it for (painful) entertainment purposes. They just aired a report on the day’s campaigns of both Kerry and Bush. In the report on Bush, they managed to say that a crowd [...]
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad
(I really, REALLY, find it outrageous that the official account is now that abuse at Abu Ghrayb occurred because of the action of a woman, one woman.) Witnesses: England often sneaked into area where detainees were abused.
Posted on August 4, 2004 by As'ad