Archive for March 4, 2005

“A U.N. report offers three scenarios projecting the number of new HIV/AIDS cases in Africa ranging from 65 million to 89 million in 2025.”

Posted on March 4, 2005 by As'ad

Nora Boustany of the Washington Post has yet another fluff piece, here on Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Here he claims that he was an opponent of Nasser’s regime from the beginning. Ibrahim did not know that there are some people who read his writings from those times, and some of his writings from the 1960s and [...]

Posted on March 4, 2005 by As'ad

US may send Ahmad Chalabi to Iran.

Posted on March 4, 2005 by As'ad

“American troops fired on a car rushing Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena to freedom today after a month in captivity, killing the Italian intelligence officer who helped negotiate her release and wounding the reporter.”

Posted on March 4, 2005 by As'ad

Free Trade up to a Point: “The United States illegally subsidised its cotton farmers to the tune of $1.5bn (£790m), the World Trade Organisation ruled yesterday.”

Posted on March 4, 2005 by As'ad

“Writers and academics voice anger as state department refuses visa to let Sandinista revolutionary take up post as Harvard professor”

Posted on March 4, 2005 by As'ad

My friend Husam `Itani (the editoral page editor of As-Safir) has a good article today in which he mocks the claims of the opposition in Lebanon about the non-violence of their movement. He points out that some 11 poor and innocent Syrian workers have been killed in Lebanon since the assassination of Hariri, not to [...]

Posted on March 4, 2005 by As'ad

I sometimes receive such an interesting links and information from people I do not even know, and from around the world. One such personl who wishes to remain anonymous sent me some interesting links about New York Times reporter Hassan Fattah. Apparently, he was “discovered” by none other than Thomas Friedman who wrote this about [...]

Posted on March 4, 2005 by As'ad

Mainstream US Media: How much I have changed in my attitudes toward the US media. When I was a graduate student, and even afterwards, I enjoyed doing all these mainstream US “news” shows, although I do not like watching myself or listening to myself in the media. But I later came to realize, that you [...]

Posted on March 4, 2005 by As'ad