Archive for October 18, 2006

For those who care, I will speak live on the BBC News worldservice (radio) 50 minutes from now. The topic is Bush’s interview with ABC News.

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

The Waterspout (La Trombe), (1866), Courbet.

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

“He recalls a meet-and-greet encounter at the White House with George W. Bush, who warmly shook his hand, then “turned to an aide nearby, who squirted a big dollop of hand sanitizer in the president’s hand.” (“Good stuff,” he quotes the president as saying, as he offered his guest some. “Keeps you from getting colds.”)”

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

“There has been a marked decrease of Gulf Arab students in the United States, statistics provided by the US embassy in Abu Dhabi have revealed. The number of students from all Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries choosing to study in the US in the academic years that ended in 2004 and 2005 fell 11.6 per [...]

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

“Enormous and unchecked new power now has been given to a White House whose officials at first called Zacarias Moussaoui the “20th hijacker” but were wrong; who at first called Jose Padilla the “dirty bomber” but were wrong; who at first called Yaser Hamdi such a threat to national security that he could not even [...]

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

Taliban-for-Bush: “Anti-Taliban Campaign Aborted, General Says”

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

The “new security” plans for Baghdad are as credible as those regular reports in An-Nahar about a Lebanese “discovery” of a cure for cancer.

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

“Olmert added: “I emphasized that in no case will we reconcile with nuclear arms in the hands of Iran.” (Angry Arab added: I emphaise that in no case will we reconcile with nuclear arms in the hands of Israel).

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

“Liberation” of space: “George Bush has staked out a bold claim to the final frontier, asserting vigorously America’s right to deny access to space to any adversary hostile to US interests, it emerged yesterday.”

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

“Britain has joined the US, China and Russia to block a proposed ban on cluster bombs in the wake of extensive use of the weapons during the war in Lebanon. A group of countries, led by Sweden, is urging a worldwide ban on cluster bombs at arms talks in Geneva. Each bomb contains hundreds of [...]

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

“Blair: troops may quit Iraq in 10-16 months: PM adjusts stance as mood changes in US“

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

“Rather than high academic ponderousness, it employs deft synopses and punchy polemics. Eagleton is a master of the one-liner, sometimes to encapsulate a difficult theory (“deconstruction is the death drive on the level of theory”) and often to issue a devastating put-down (“Stanley Fish is the Donald Trump of American academia, a brash, noisy entrepreneur [...]

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

Bush Doctrine officially arrives in Iraq. Above, a banner by Al-Qa`idah in Ramadi carries the declaration of the “Islamic state of Iraq.”

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

This is the nicest news item of the week, month, year, etc. Iyad `Allawi (former puppet prime minister/car bomber/Saddam’s henchman/embezzler-in-Yemen) visited the offices of the Saudi daily,Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, in London. He met with the editor-in-chief (appointed by House of Saud of course). How nice.

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

Important. This is an account by Sami Kulayb on a new book just released in France (not available on amazon-france for some reason) on US-French relations and UNSC 1559. Apparently, it talks about the early Hariri bribes to Chirac. Somebody find that book and send it to me NOW. (Here an interview with the author. [...]

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

Full text: “War Crimes Committed by the United States in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability”

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

On the racist shows on LBC-TV and (Hariri propaganda outlet) Al-Mustaqbal.

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

Full text: “Foreseeable Harm: The use and impact of cluster munitions in Lebanon: 2006″

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

Now you know why Bush is pleased with AlArabiya TV (which reminds me, whatever happened to the so-called Al-Hurra TV?). This morning, Aljazeera started its newscast with the news of the Israeli invasion of Rafah. On Alarabiya TV: it was mentioned at 7:12AM.

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad

These pictures don’t appear in US newspapers. The victim is a Palestinian boy shot by Israeli terrorists.

Posted on October 18, 2006 by As'ad