Archive for August, 2008
A delegation from the SSNP in Lebanon meets with the Saudi ambassador in Lebanon.
Posted on August 31, 2008 by As'ad
Saudi media want to bring Dahlan back. Ghassan Shibil was a reporter for An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people) newspaper in Lebanon). He is now editor-in-chief of Al-Hayat, the mouthpiece of Prince Khalid Bin Sultan. He is a good writer and knows how to conduct interviews. But his lengthy interviews with Muhammad [...]
Posted on August 31, 2008 by As'ad
The rise of Barak Obama, regardless whether he will win or not, will now allow Americans to engage in their favorite sport: self-praise and self-congratulations. You remember what Alexis de Tocqueville had said about Americans: “The Americans, in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise. . . . [...]
Posted on August 31, 2008 by As'ad
For those who ask, I should explain. I only write in Arabic for Al-Akhbar newspaper and Al-Adab magazine. Both are independent and leftist publications. Yet, as you know, Arabic websites freely lift articles and post them and publish them without authorizations or permissions or agreements, and certainly no royalties. And they publish them without even [...]
Posted on August 31, 2008 by As'ad
“A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of Parliament this week to spare him their outrage.”
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
“One in six American soldiers in Afghanistan and one in eight in Iraq are taking daily doses of prescription antidepressants, sleeping pills or painkillers to help them cope with the stresses of combat, according to figures contained in a US Army mental health advisory team report seen by The Herald.”
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
“In 2003, after lobbying for six years, Lockheed Martin got Congress to approve a $3.8 billion loan for Poland to buy 48 of its F-16 fighter jets. It was one of the largest military loans in recent memory.” (thanks Tanweer)
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
Blame the Shi`ite sectarian death squads and their sponsors at the American occupation apparatus: “But the Palestinians, who number about 11,000 and mostly live in Baghdad, remain one of the most vulnerable groups, said Daniel Endres, the envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Iraq.”
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
“And yes, Joseph R. Wood, Cheney’s deputy assistant for national security affairs, was in Georgia shortly before the war began.” (thanks FLC)
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
Husni Mubarak had a role in an old Egyptian movie–kid you not. (thanks Pierre)
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
“Police have been searching for two weeks for the body of Rose, the blue-eyed child.” If only Palestinian children are blue-eyed. Maybe then the Western press would pay attention to their suffering. (thanks Abdullah)
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
“But now here comes Israel’s environment minister, Gideon Ezra, with an equally huge whopper as he warns of an even bigger, more terrible war should Hizbollah attack Israel again. “During the (2006) war, we considered the possibility of attacking Lebanon’s infrastructure but we never (sic) resorted to this option, because we thought at the time [...]
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
“Among the Palestinians on board was Saed Mosleh, 12, who lost his leg to an Israeli tank shell, as well as students who had been prevented by the Israeli embargo from studying abroad.”
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
The Kuwaiti government bans a book because it promotes reconciliation and amity among Sunnis and Shi`ites. Saudis must have protested. (thanks Yahya)
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
“Dissatisfied with the answers, the rabbis nullified her conversion. Yael did not need a divorce, they ruled, because she had never been married. She had never been married because she had never been Jewish. And because she had never been Jewish, her children were not, either.” (thanks Nabeel)
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
“Israeli forces sprayed waste water and gas into a crowd singing songs for freedom from oppression. They also chanted against the killing of children, the abuse of political prisoners and the occupation in general.” (thanks Marcy)
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
“While boycott and divestment campaigns in the West become more sophisticated and widespread, the Arab world’s longstanding boycott of Israel is being undermined by Arab governments, companies and businessmen.” (thanks David)
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
Talal Salman on Adonis.
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
Based on what took place in the Lebanese parliament last Monday, it is clear to me that March 14th and its Saudi, French, and American sponsors will do their best to postpone or even cancel the next parliamentary elections.
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad
I don’t like flags and I don’t like nationalisms, but…for Palestine and the Palestinians, anything and everything.
Posted on August 30, 2008 by As'ad