Archive for May 28, 2006
“Recent hopes that the Arab League might pay Gulf aid direct to civil servants’ bank accounts have been dashed—after the Americans blocked it, says the presidency.”
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
“Sudan’s military intelligence has been supportive of both the CIA (spilling a few beans on al-Qaeda) and the janjaweed militias who have done most of the killing in Darfur.”
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
“And for the most part Hollywood is incapable of dealing with even the most heavyweight subjects—terrorism included—without indulging in a mixture of sensationalism and idiocy.”
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
“Almost nobody has heard of the woman with whom [Voltaire] shared most of his life, Emilie du Châtelet. But you can make a good case that she was a more rigorous thinker, a better writer, a more systematic scientist, a formidable mathematician, a wizard gambler, a more faithful lover and a much kinder and deeper [...]
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
“In 1900 the new American governor of Cuba, General Leonard Wood, summarised this view in a report to President McKinley: “When people ask me what I mean by stable government, I tell them, ‘Money at six per cent.’—
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
From Dictatorships that you like: ““THE United States is a damned country that deserves only to be cursed. It declares its own occupation of our lands legitimate, but brands our resistance as terrorists.†This was not the Libyan leader, Muammar Qaddafi, speaking 20 years ago, when his country was a pariah and he was the [...]
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
“According to the Sunday Telegraph, Blair made “significant” last-minute changes to his major foreign policy address and “objections by President George W. Bush’s inner circle played a key role in the alterations.””
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
“A powerful member of Congress alleged yesterday that there has been a conscious effort by Marine commanders to cover up the facts of a November incident in which rampaging Marines allegedly killed 24 Iraqi civilians.”
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
“Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies’ products.”
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
And UK used to brag that it found the winning formula for colonization in Iraq: “British forces in Iraq have been attacked by insurgents nearly 60 times a month since the start of the year. The new figure, covering the first four months of 2006, is a 26 per cent increase on 2005.”
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
I have one question for Darfur groupies: do they plan to protest Israeli jailing of more than 200 Darfur refugees who sought asylum?
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
Haaretz: “Tel Aviv within range of new Hezbollah rocket” (Angry Arab: All Arab capitals and cities are within range of old and new Israeli rockets)
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
“Heavy Marijuana Smoking Not Linked To Raised Lung, Neck Cancer Risk”
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
“Mideast Debate Takes Root at UC Irvine” (I am of the opinion that we should, out of respect for the victims of the holocaust, leave it out of our discourse on the Arab-Israeli conflict. And Israeli political exploitation of the holocaust does not justify any other political exploitation of the holocaust).
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
US and western government are quite amused that they are starving the Palestinian people to punish their democratic vote. But in the long historical term, this will become a major event. People will be remembering this event the way they remember other major Western injustices in the region.
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
US is pleased with Syrian actions on the border with Iraq, which only proves my theory: the Syrian government is willing to sell Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine to stay in power.
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
Former communist Karim Muruwwah completes his Hariri transformation. Here, he supports the sectarian single-member electoral districts.
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
Hariri rag, Al-Mustaqbal, is now the most blatantly racist newspaper in Lebanon–yes, more racist than An-Nahar.
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
In this article, Salim Huss tells the story when Walid Jumblat (he calls him “one of the ministers” here) threatened to kill him in a cabinet meeting.
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad
Nur Al-Ashqar was injured by Israeli occupation bombing in Dibbin near Marji`yun (in South Lebanon).
Posted on May 28, 2006 by As'ad