Archive for January 25, 2005
Exotic Landscape, 1908. Henri Rousseau.
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
For those who care (and can read Arabic): the transcript of my appearance last week on Al-Jazeera.
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
Whither Political Islam?
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
Full text: Global Opinion: The Spread of Anti-Americanism
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
Coaching Iraq’s New Candidates, Discreetly: U.S.-Funded Programs train the puppets.
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
Shifting roles of US spies and special forces: Pentagon takes over some CIA spy operations while US ‘super-secret’ commandos get duty on US soil.
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
Terry Eagleton offers his views on suicide bombings. An interesting treatment, but I disagree with him. Not only due to my categorical rejection of all forms of suicide–regardless of motives, but also he is not accurate that sucide bombers do not necesarrily embrace death. Some suicide bombers (especially those who are driven– even if partially–by [...]
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
The only democracy in the Middle East is…Cyprus. “Israel is poised to expel a senior BBC journalist it accuses of criminal defiance of censorship laws over an interview with the nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu.”
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
Global poverty targeted as 100,000 gather in Brazil (Bush offered to bomb poor people worldwide to eradicate poverty).
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
Israeli occupation forces stole her land.
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
So the president of Columbia University has organized the most pro-Israeli and unbalanced conference to appease the Zionist activists who have been attacking Middle East studies at Columbia. And then Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Danny Ayalon cancelled his participation. Good, I say.
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
The Israel Defense Forces have asked Attorney General for permission to clear completely a 300-meter-wide strip along the Gazan-Egyptian border. This would require the demolition of hundreds of Palestinian houses in Rafah.
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
Sa`d Al-Bazzaz and Saudi Intelligence. This is explosive. In a trial in London, it is revealed that Sa`d Al-Bazzaz’s media empire is a front for Saudi intelligence. I have written about this former Goebbels of Saddam Husayn. Nobody has worked harder than this man to produce the personality cult of Saddam, especially during the Iran-Iraq [...]
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
Letters of Isaiah Berlin.
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
I cannot stop pontificating on Yasir `Arafat.
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
From the poem The Eye in the Wound by Syrian poet Muhammad Al-Maghut (my translation): “I planted, in the wound, my eye So my destroyed house appeared and near my rosy spear I saw the head of Kulayb, lightening the face of the camp saying to me: Do not make peace saying to me: You [...]
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
Losing the war for hearts and minds in the Middle East: U.S. ‘liberty’ Policy is provoking resistance and instability (by Michael C Hudson–my dissertation advisor)
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
The armed Israeli occupiers versus the unarmed natives.
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
Defying Israeli soldiers with a flag.
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad
Sexual assaults in [Texas] state prisons are up sharply
Posted on January 25, 2005 by As'ad