Archive for February 18, 2005
Having lost the election in Iraq despite millions of US funds, Iraqi puppet prime minister/car bomber/embezzler-in-Yemen/former Saddam’s henchman warns that the winning list has Iran ties (unlike his “good” foreign ties).
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
“Low-income workers face most challenges under the president’s proposed Social Security reforms.”
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
They are demonstrating in Jordan against government repression. Bush keeps praising “democracy” in Jordan. The Arabic word reads “government.”
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
“In a case that echoes the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan posed before cameras while threatening to shoot prisoners in the head, shoving a detainee into a wall and punching another inmate. The troops also mugged for “trophy shots” with the corpse of an enemy fighter who had invaded their [...]
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
Every person who dies in the Middle East is now declared to be a “martyr” and every war that the US launches is a “liberation” war. I am suffocating.
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
“According to Reuters, during their detention “two of the three said they had been forced to insert a finger into their anus and then lick it, and were forced to put shoes in their mouths.” Reuters also reported: “All three said they were forced to make demeaning gestures as soldiers laughed, taunted them and took [...]
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
Israeli occupation forces dealing with Palestinians.
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
Journalist group calls US to account over Iraq
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
The final proof: global warming is a man-made disaster
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
Israeli occupation forces dealing with Palestinians.
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
invisible workers who fear deportation in Israel
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
German scholar is exposed as fraud
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
There is “liberation” and then there is “double liberation”. I heard Don Rumsfeld yesterday refer to the recent destruction of Fallujah as “the liberation” of Fallujah. But I thought that Iraq as a whole was “liberated” when US invaded the country, and broguht down Saddam’s regime. And when you “liberate” the whole you “liberate” the [...]
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
Voting for Ayatollah Sistani. I heard Sen. John Warner saying yesterday in a Senate hearing that Iraqis voted in large numbers to show support for “freedom” and “democracy”. No, Senator. Iraqis voted in large numbers (in most areas but not all) to show support for an Ayatollah who never left his house in 6 years, [...]
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad
The Lebanon I left behind, the Lebanon that I will not return to. I saw Druze sectarian feudal warlord, Walid Jumblat, talk about Rafiq Hariri and Syria on Future-TV. He said that he is nostalgic to the old days of his excellent relations with the Syrian regime. He mentioned his past alliance with the likes [...]
Posted on February 18, 2005 by As'ad