Archive for August 30, 2004
Solon and His Students.
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
“An FBI investigation into the handling of highly classified material by Pentagon civilians is broader than previously reported and goes well beyond allegations that a single analyst gave a top-secret Iran policy document to Israel.”
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
Listening to the speeches of Sen. John McWayne and Giuliani is quite an experience. If I can find a device that would block the words “freedom” and “liberty” from my radios and TV, I would buy it and install instantly. What a vapid word it has become; the word “potato” carries more meaning to me [...]
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
What a mess. The terror factor in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
This is Zionism: Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed early on Thursday a 14-year-old Palestinian.
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
According to a confidential US poll in Iraq, Sistani is the most popular Iraqi leader, and As-Sadr is viewed positively by 57.19 percent of Iraqis. (When I read about popularity of clerics anywhere or about popularity of religious demagogues in civilian clothes, I confirm my admiration for French secularism).
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
“The Brazilian authorities believe that hired death squads or “social cleansing” groups are the most likely perpetrators of attacks which have killed at least seven homeless people in Sao Paulo.”
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
How ironic. I hear the speeches on TV outside (the Republican convention) talking about the defeat and the end of the Taliban, and then I read this: “Taliban warn of more attacks.”
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
“Bodies left unburied on Darfur hillside tell story of executions by Sudanese army and Janjaweed militia.”
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
It is time that you dispel your myths about Israeli kibbutzim.
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
Dégringolade.
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
If anybody knows anything about a TV channel called PAX TV, please let me know. (They invited me to a show on Sep. 11 issues).
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
Jürgen Habermas: “Certainly, the patriotic upsurge following upon September 11, had an American character. But the key to the curtailment of fundamental law, which you’ve referred to, to the breach of the Geneva Convention in Guantanamo, to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, etc., I would locate elsewhere. The militarization of life domestically [...]
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
More from the government newspaper, New York Times. It carried this headline today: U.S. and Russia Still Dominate Arms Market. And when you read the full article you read that in fact, “the United States maintained its lead in worldwide weapons sales in 2003, signing deals worth more than $14.5 billion, or 56.7 percent of [...]
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
“To the Editor: If Leon Wieseltier and the Book Review think that his review of ”Checkpoint” (Aug. 8), Nicholson Baker’s novel about a man who wants to kill President Bush, largely on account of the war with Iraq, was an appropriate occasion for Wieseltier to tell us where Janet Malcolm lives and to fret about [...]
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad
Interview with MIRA NAIR: “Have you been mistaken for a Muslim on the streets? Last time I checked, Muslims looked like every other human being…”
Posted on August 30, 2004 by As'ad