Archive for January 29, 2005
I wish Palestinian victims of Israeli gunfire get the attention and coverage of Western victims of Israeli gunfire.
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
How does Michael Ignatieff know that Iraqis are fighting for “a free election“? But then again; Ignatieff knows how to pontificate, and not how to substantiate.
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
Spinoza invited intellectuals “not to deplore, not to laugh, not to detest, but to understand.” I invite intellectuals to deplore, to laugh, to detest, and to (subversively) misunderstand.
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
“Egypt detains opposition lawmaker.” But there is no reason for alarm. Husni Mubarak has expedited normalization with Israel, and has increased pressure on Palestinian groups. That is all what counts.
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
“Shiites Offer Unified Slate, but Fault Lines Show.”
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
“Kuwait’s religious hardliners announced on Saturday the creation of the first political party in the emirate.” This newspaper account does not say that US ambassador was present for the announcement. American alliance with fanatical fundamentalism has not ended.
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
“The Capital of Empty Streets: Baghdad Feels Like a City Preparing for War.”
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
Posters for the Saigon election in 1967. And that one turned out pretty well for US occupation plans, no?
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
So how do the US occupation forces treat the Iraqi puppet ministers: “Yes, I was punched by a soldier. I was very calm with him. I just kept talking to him. He kept punching me, and I kept talking to him….We don’t have to be terrorists to be against the Americans,” Al-Janabi explains. “It’s just [...]
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
Image of Iraqi election. (thanks earljdivoky)
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
“Sweets and flowers”: A new Zogby poll in Iraq. “Majorities of both Sunni Arabs (82%) and Shiites (69%) also favor U.S. forces withdrawing either immediately or after an elected government is in place.”
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
Unintended Consequences: The Shia Will Inherit Iraq
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
Being registered to vote by US troops.
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
The US government (while preaching “freedoms”) has killed AlJazeera: “Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and other Bush administration officials have complained heatedly to Qatari leaders that Al Jazeera’s broadcasts have been inflammatory, misleading and occasionally false, especially on Iraq. [...]
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
The enthusiastic pro-Bush’s wars advocate John Burns of NYT says: “Much of the problem is that the elections are being held under the dominion of the United States…Many Iraqis, interviews in recent months have shown, do not accept that fundamental choices about the shape of their future political system should be made by a foreign [...]
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
“Michael Chertoff, who has been picked by President Bush to be the homeland security secretary, advised the Central Intelligence Agency on the legality of coercive interrogation methods on terror suspects under the federal anti-torture statute, current and former administration officials said this week. Depending on the circumstances, he told the intelligence agency, some coercive methods [...]
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
The Iraqi people between the violent fanaticism of Zarqawi and the violent fanaticism of Bush. (The person in the middle is identified as “the Iraqi people”; the person to the left is identified as “Zarqawi” and his caption says: “Death!Death!Death!”).
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
Baghdad and Death by Egyptian poet Ahmad `Abdul-Mu`ti Hijazi (my translation): “Before he was slaughtered, he was dead Crying in Baghdad over dead time looking for his guard for a poet at his door, telling him..you are the boy and seeing only eyes of flames filling the inside of the palace with dead horror and [...]
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
The Isle of the Dead, 1880. Arnold Böcklin.
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad
Curtain up on Kierkegaard
Posted on January 29, 2005 by As'ad