Archive for April 14, 2005
St. Petersburg. The Summer Gardens in Winter, 1929. Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva.
Posted on April 14, 2005 by As'ad
Eternal Foreign Occupation in Afghanistan.
Posted on April 14, 2005 by As'ad
“Shareholders of heavy equipment maker Caterpillar this week rejected a proposal that called on the company to examine the sale of its bulldozers to Israel due to their use in the demolition of Palestinian homes.”
Posted on April 14, 2005 by As'ad
“The British government formally protested to Israel after the army officer who opened fire when the film-maker James Miller was shot dead in Gaza two years ago was acquitted of disciplinary charges.”
Posted on April 14, 2005 by As'ad
“Murderers executed by lethal injection suffered excruciating pain because they were not properly anaesthetised.”
Posted on April 14, 2005 by As'ad
“Christ’s Militia”
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“An Assembly of Ghosts” (by Eric Hobsbawm)
Posted on April 14, 2005 by As'ad
Interesting account of his meeting with Fouad Ajami. (thanks Muhamad)
Posted on April 14, 2005 by As'ad
“I call President Bush the Christopher Columbus ofpolitical liberty in the Arab World.” Guess who said that?
Posted on April 14, 2005 by As'ad
I cannot believe Robert Fisk: he is a different man when he writes about Hariri. Listen to him: “Hariri started to rebuild Beirut. It will be his new Beirut which will host next week’s brave festivities…” Hariri did not “rebuild” Beirut. Beirut was rebuilt by poor Syrian construction workers, and future generation of Lebanese who [...]
Posted on April 14, 2005 by As'ad
“U.S. jailers at Guantanamo Bay beat a Bosnian detainee so badly he suffered facial paralysis and stuffed the man’s head in a toilet, repeatedly flushing it until he nearly drowned.”
Posted on April 14, 2005 by As'ad
“The former CIA operative accused of a beating an Afghan prisoner who died in custody wants to subpoena the U.S. attorney general and the former head of the CIA to prove he acted under the authority of the federal government”
Posted on April 14, 2005 by As'ad
“Let them eat bombs: The doubling of child malnutrition in Iraq is baffling”
Posted on April 14, 2005 by As'ad