Archive for June, 2005
“Poll: In wake of Iraq war, allies prefer China to U.S.” (I prefer Sweden to China)
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
“From Modesto, California, a window on the Arab world” (thanks Ema)
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
“Big Media Interlocks with Corporate America”
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
“Iraqi students say arrested for wearing jeans”
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
“America’s neo-conservative world supremacists will fail: Current US megalomania is rooted in the Puritan colonists’ certainties”
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
“Brazilians fear U.S. is plotting to take Amazon”
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
I don’t believe this. It is propaganda. I don’t have time to explain. But former puppet prime minister/car bomber/Saddam’s henchman/embezzler-in-Yemen, Iyad `Allawi, also used to make such claims when he would meet with clan leaders. It is intended for internal US audience to send a false message of full control and flexibility by US forces.
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
“Inquiry Exposes Canada’s Role in ‘Renditions’: Hearings Suggest Cooperation With U.S. in Sending Arab Canadian Citizen to Syria for Interrogation”
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
“Turkey’s Growing Sex Trade Snares Many Slavic Women”
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
“The extraordinary decision by an Italian judge to order the arrest of 13 people linked to the Central Intelligence Agency on charges of kidnapping a terrorism suspect here dramatizes a growing rift between American counterterrorism officials and their counterparts in Europe.”
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
Matisse: Une Seconde Vie
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
Diet soda drinks outside of the US taste much better and sweeter than diet soda drinks in the US. It must be due to chemicals that they use which may not be permitted by the FDA in the US. I now officially urge the FDA to permit the use of those chemicals NOW. I said, [...]
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
THE REAL BUSH DOCTRINE: “U.S. Plans Expansion of Crowded Iraq prisons: Faced with a ballooning prison population, U.S. commanders in Iraq are building new detention facilities at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison and Camp Bucca near the Kuwaiti border and are developing a third major prison, in northern Iraq.”
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
The Bush Doctrine: “other countries also began investigations into America’s role in the disappearance of their citizens.”
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
“The Power and the Glory: Myths of American exceptionalism”
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
“Almost not believing that ISG could be disinterested in this story, I contacted my old graduate professor at Georgetown, Dr. Assad AbuKhalil. Dr. AbuKhalil has become a violent critic of Israel and the Bush Administration’s Iraq War, running a weblog called “the Angry Arab†chock full of pictures of suffering Palestinians and Iraqis sent to [...]
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
I can tell how fragmented this country is by the different moods and sub-political cultures of every audience I address. From the southern suburbs, to Beirut, and yesterday in Tyre, the audiences are quite different. But imagine how odd it was to have the brother of Layla Khalid (THE Layla Khalid) express full support for [...]
Posted on June 26, 2005 by As'ad
I have met and interviewed many people already. Many officials and senior leaders talked to me at length but off the record. I wish I can share what I have learned. In fact, one senior leader specifically said that I am not to post what he told me on my site. I gave my first [...]
Posted on June 24, 2005 by As'ad
The SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER gives its 2005 tolerance award to a torturer. It also gave the Sudanese government its 2005 award for ethnic harmony.
Posted on June 22, 2005 by As'ad
“Arms trade ‘undermines efforts to relieve debt’”
Posted on June 22, 2005 by As'ad