Archive for January 6, 2007
Another American foreign policy plan succeeds: “Hundreds of angry and fed-up Somalis demanded that Ethiopian troops leave the city Saturday, smashing cars, burning tires, and hurling stones and threats as a prevailing sense of insecurity deepened in the patched-together neighborhoods of Mogadishu.”
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“In 2000, the Council of Ministers approved the history program, but the minister of education at the time stopped it because it did not suit the Syrian occupying authorities, Messarra says. Today, most history books stop at 1943 and cover only one region of the country.” Messarra is lying here. The reason why the history [...]
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“When McWhorter confines regret and shame about this joblessness to the past, he implies that all that’s left in today’s black men is shamelessness. This, I think, comes perilously close to evoking a gilded narrative of master-servant nostalgia: How we miss the good old days when “those people” (and it has been said of the [...]
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“Surveys increasingly show that, especially among the poor, women even more than men are turned off by marriage because they expect so little from it.”
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“General Clark said the time for a military solution was long past, that US troops lack the skills and the political legitimacy to pacify the conflict-ridden regions, and that the only way forward was a political initiative encompassing the entire region. We’ve never had enough troops in Iraq,” writes General Clark, who was the Supreme [...]
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“UN shame over sex scandal: The international organisation says that almost 200 of its peacekeepers around the world have been disciplined for sex offences – including rape and child abuse – but not one seems to have been prosecuted.”
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“The IDF was surprised when an Iranian missile was fired on one of its missile ships, and by the Hezbollah’s extensive use of anti-tank missiles in the war, he said. Also, Hezbollah outposts in open areas were well concealed, and Israeli troops discovered them only when they happened upon their underground bunkers, Halamish asserted.”
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
Yet another success for the Bush Doctrine: “Starving Afghans sell girls of eight as brides”
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
Don’t you love it when Saudi propagandists criticize the Syrian regime for being undemocratic? This is like Syrian officials criticizing `Abdul-Halim Khaddam for corruption. Or like Khaddam criticizing Syrian interferences in Lebanon, etc.
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“30,000 extra troops will be thrown into the battle for Baghdad”. I say 40,000. Do we have 50,000? 50,000??? We have 50,000. Do we have 70,000? 70,000?
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“Millions of Britons who visit the United States are to have their fingerprints stored on the FBI database alongside those of criminals, in a move that has outraged civil rights groups.” (Arab visitors will be caramelized).
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
I would never want to defend Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch. But today, Iraqi puppet prime minister, Nuri Al-Maliki, blasted human rights organizations (for their criticisms of Saddam’s execution) and asked “Where were they when Saddam was killing his victims”? In fairness, those human rights organization were criticizing Saddam’s regime. He should direct that [...]
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“It is, therefore, a worry when research by Robert Putnam, a professor at Harvard University, suggests that higher levels of ethnic diversity in a community lead to lower levels of trust between its members.” So what do you want? Just keep it white and “pure”, or do you want to reinstitute segregation?
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“Iran with nuclear weapons is unacceptable, new House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told The Jerusalem Post hours after entering the party leadership position. The Maryland Democrat said the view is shared by his party, rejecting assertions that the Democrats would be weaker than the Republicans on Iran.”
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“The Bush administration is imposing economic sanctions on Chinese, Russian and North Korean companies for selling missiles and weapons goods to Iran and Syria, administration officials said. “
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“The Gates Foundation has poured $218 million into polio and measles immunization and research worldwide, including in the Niger Delta. At the same time that the foundation is funding inoculations to protect health, The Times found, it has invested $423 million in Eni, Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Total of France [...]
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
When you read the byline of John Burns you know that you are about to read official US propaganda. This is third article by Burns in which he asserts that the US had nothing to do with Saddam’s execution. OK. Enough already.
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“Iraq’s massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days. The US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which has been seen [...]
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran”. You know, I read this and thought: for much of my life, I have always been certain that the liberation of Palestine will come. I, however, was certain that it will happen, but not in my life time. But since the Israeli war on Lebanon last summer, I [...]
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad
“Iraqi academic Falih `abd al-Jabbar expressed his disappointment as one of the Iraqis who have “waited in exile for over three decades†hoping for the urban Iraqi middle class to “rise and rebuild the civic stateâ€, only to discover that this class had “acquired much of the pettiness of its rural leaders … and had [...]
Posted on January 6, 2007 by As'ad