Archive for February 24, 2009
The Plot Thickens: Quantum and US money in Lebanon
“One of the biggest beneficiaries of Alhurra’s largesse has been a network of Lebanon-based companies revolving around a Harb friend named Eli Khoury. He is the top executive at the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency franchise in Beirut and a partner or shareholder in two affiliated companies, Quantum Communications and Brand Central. Khoury’s firms have [...]
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
Glorificaton of bigotry
“Republican Jon Kyl sponsoring screening of Geert Wilders’ film, says ‘all too often, people who have the courage to point out the dangers of militant Islamists find themselves vilified and endangered’”
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
In the US, it is called terrorist olive oil
“In an unintended consequence of Israel’s offensive in Gaza last month, sales of Palestinian olive oil in Britain are soaring, importers have said.”
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
Rational capitalism?
“In the 1930s Keynes decried the growing dominance of financial capital, which threatened to reduce the real economy to “a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation,†and recommended the “euthanasia of the rentier.†However, financialization is so essential to the monopoly-finance capital of today, that such a “euthanasia of the rentier†cannot be achieved—in contravention [...]
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
Dahlan o Dahlan
Did you see the Dahlan tribute/interview in Saudi sleaze website, Elaph? It is good. No, really it is if you want to induce puking.
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
War criminals
“Israel continues to obstruct independent investigations into allegations of laws of war violations by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas military forces in Gaza by preventing independent human rights monitors from entering Gaza, Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem said today. After submitting applications for permission to enter via the Erez crossing in January 2009, [...]
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
Zionist racism
Do you notice that American Zionists really think that Fascist Zionists are rather cute? “Joe Lieberman told the local press he “wanted to meet Lieberman, because he will play an important role in the next government, so it’s important that we in the US get to know him well.”” (thanks Sellam)
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
Hamid Karzai is nice, no?
“The pilots do not need to be told that civilian deaths soared last year in Afghanistan, the majority from Taliban attacks, but others from airstrikes called in by American and British troops under fire. President Hamid Karzai has so angrily condemned the strikes that in December he was invited to visit the Roosevelt, so that [...]
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
Iranian Jews
““Let them say ‘Death to Israel,’ †he said. “I’ve been in this store 43 years and never had a problem. I’ve visited my relatives in Israel, but when I see something like the attack on Gaza, I demonstrate, too, as an Iranian.— (thanks Marcy)
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
Canada is no more innocent: was it ever?
“Dozens of angry protesters shouted “death to Canadians” and paraded the bloody bodies of two dead boys in front of a government office in Kandahar Monday, after an explosion southwest of the city near a village for disabled people.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
Anti-Semitic
Gen. Michel `Awn’s comments on Jews are anti-Semitic.
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
Some ethnic cleansing is not that bad for you, according to this columnist
“Israel, too, engaged some in ethnic cleansing — or why else all those Palestinian refugees? But the attempt was both chaotic and, as we can see, not wholly successful.” (thanks Sarah)
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
Hitchens on Lebanese women
This is what Hitchens said on Lebanese women: “Speaking of sex, said NOW Lebanon, just incidentally, what did you think of Lebanese women? “Ah,” he said, “the fragrant and lustrous womanhood of Lebanon requires no endorsement, it’s already established itself.” And it was, he added, “very much on show, if that isn’t too cheap and [...]
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
Zizek on Munich
Khalil sent me this: “thought you might like this quote from Slavoj Zizek’s In Defense of Lost Causes. In his first chapter, Happiness and Torture in the Atonal World, Human, all too human, he states the following ideas about Munich, which also deal with the same themes in Waltz with Bachir and many other films, [...]
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
About the Amos Oz post yesterday
Asa sent me this comment about Stephen’s point on Oz (I cite with his permission): “Stephen’s overall point is of course correct, however for the sake of accuracy I feel I should point out that his calculations are not quite right since the population figures in the CIA World Factbook include the Palestinian refugees in [...]
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad
At least I will no more read about the genius of Sheikh Mo
“Dubai’s stock market rallied Monday, a day after the United Arab Emirates announced a $10 billion bond purchase to shore up the debt-ridden city-state, which had been hit hard by collapsing real estate prices and tight credit in recent months.”
Posted on February 24, 2009 by As'ad