Archive for May, 2006
An excellent critique of Hariri TV by Zaynab Yaghi.
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
An author of a book on Lebanese wine claims that he won a special international “best in the world” award. Oh, ya. Today I ate a mango. It was rated the “best in the world.”
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
Now you can go to sleep. Saudi Minister of Interior, Prince Nayif, denied that the powers of the “moral police” have been curtailed.
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
Mundafi` (leaping or forward moving): this is how Al-Arabiyya TV described US military shooting of Afghan civilians. The US military propaganda person supplied by US propaganda center in Dubai told Al-Arabiyya viewers that US troops shoot “over” the heads of demonstrators. But he failed to explain how bullets “over” the head can kill.
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
Fox News in AlArabiyya. Al-Arabiyya TV inaugurated news visuals and sound effects for its “news delivery.” It is so influenced by Fox News. I bet you that some Fox News “consultants” were behind the changes. I was in fact expecting the American flag to appear somewhere on the screen.
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
National Potato Day. (thanks Julie)
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
It seems that the Institute for Gulf Affairs has become a mere propaganda tool of AIPAC and its cronies. I reported a week ago, based on a story in the Washington Post, about a new report by Freedom House (mostly prepared by their new ally, the Institute for Gulf Affairs) about Saudi textbooks. The report [...]
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
Draw your own conclusions: For political purposes, US officials now appear almost exclusively on Al-Arabiyya TV and LBC-TV. British officials favor the highest rated, Al-Jazeera.
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
Flashback.
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
Wake up the children. Wake up the children. Raise the Red Lanterns. Raise the Red Lanterns. Hassan Fattah is back. Hassan Fattah is back. He is now covering Lebanon from….Israel, literally and figuratively. But this is only fitting. After all, he learned the trick of the trade from Martin Peretz at the New Republic. You [...]
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
“In the last six weeks, a resurgent Taliban has surprised the Americans with the ferocity of its annual spring offensive and set some officials here to worrying that the United States might become tied down in a prolonged battle as control slips away from the central government — in favor of the movement that harbored [...]
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
“How would you define the difference between a probing question and a rude one?I don’t think there are any rude questions. I don’t even like reporters to say thank you.”
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
“Iraqis’ Accounts Link Marines to the Mass Killing of Civilians”
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
How nice: “The Pentagon is pressing Congress to approve the development of a new weapon that would enable the United States to carry out nonnuclear missile strikes against distant targets within an hour.
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
I swear. I never see Haykal on Al-Jazeera when he is NOT talking about `Ali Mahir. It seems to be always about `Ali Mahir. That only proves my theory: that Haykal should stop talking, NOW.
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
Gris, Juan, Violin and Glass, 1915.
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
Inexplicably, Najah Wakim (see p. 6) supports Syrian arrests, and refers to the Syrian dissidents as “traitors.” This is surprising because Wakim–I know full well–was harassed and persecuted by Syrian mukhabarat in Lebanon.
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
“in a recent Turkish poll, 74% of respondents said they saw America as the biggest threat to world peace.”
Posted on May 29, 2006 by As'ad
“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