Archive for March 1, 2009
The rich are suffering: are you crying?
“Now that Harvard is expecting a roughly $11 billion endowment decline over the current academic year—30% of the total—the university is in such a financial squeeze that it has frozen faculty salaries and offered early retirement to 1,600 employees. Princeton is even more addicted to its endowment, which provides about 45% of its operating budget. [...]
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
Zionist sensitivity?
Don’t you like it when Zionists (to cover or distract from their crimes against humans) feign sensitivity to animals? Very cute indeed. (thanks Olivia)
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
Critique of Waddah Shararah
Warning: this is too delicious. Comrade Raed offers a critique of the writings of Waddah Shararah. (thanks Raed)
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
A folksy bigot
Paul Harvey died. He was seen by millions in the US as a cute and folksy racist, sexist, and bigot.
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
Violation of secularism
“NEARLY everyone now takes for granted the wisdom, constitutionality and inevitability of some form of federal financing for community social services run by religious groups. Who anymore can imagine that the United States managed to exist for over 200 years without the government providing any direct aid to faith and its works? It is truly [...]
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
The White Man Lectures to Iraqi "women" and "pussies"
The American White Man lectures to Iraqi police. (thanks Joelle)
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
American "liberation": Worse than Saddam
“Mr. Ricks predicted that W.’s snake-bit war may yet swallow up Mr. Obama, that America will be in Iraq for many years to come, and that in the end, we will be the losers. What emerges will be an Iraq that “is not a democracy, not an American ally, and run by a strongman, probably [...]
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
My talk at SOAS next Friday
My talk at SOAS at the University of London on the US media and the Israeli war on Gaza:Friday 6th March6pm, SOAS, KLT
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
Dubai miracle..my potato
“THREE property industry high-flyers, including the senior agent of a company part-owned by James Packer, are among 13 Australians under arrest in Dubai as its supposed property miracle has succumbed to the global financial crisis.” (thanks Saeed)
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
Iraqi Refugees
“As human rights organizations call for aid and resettlement for millions of Iraqi refugees, some who are exasperated by America’s refugee system are going home or attempting to return to other countries in the Middle East. They feel abandoned by federal policies that offer limited and brief financial support and leave many refugees living in [...]
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
Death squads and terrorist gangs–unto the nations
“The Israeli military’s policy of targeted killings has been described from the inside for the first time. In an interview with The Independent on Sunday, and in his testimony to an ex-soldiers’ organisation, Breaking the Silence, a former member of an assassination squad has told of his role in a botched ambush that killed two [...]
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
Hariri tribunal
I promised my readers regular and frequent updates about the Hariri tribunal. Today, there are new developments: blah blah blah, and blah. More tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
"Relatively" Democratic Afghanistan, as NYT would say
“President Hamid Karzai decreed Saturday that presidential elections be moved forward to April or May, just weeks after they were set for August, in what appears to be an attempt to avert constitutional challenges to his legitimacy.”
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
relatively democratic and relatively theocratic and relatively terroristic
The New York Times defines Iraqi government of war criminals, militia goons, and religious nuts: “relatively democratic Iraq”.
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
The real Rafiq Hariri
We have somebody new writing on Lebanon in the New York Times: “Mr. Hariri had been a leading opponent of Syria’s political control over his country.” Let me explain a few things to Marlise. Rafiq Hariri was installed in 1992 by Syrian intelligence service, and he bribed his way to that prime ministership. Hariri lasted [...]
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
War criminals you like
“Now facing a trial at The Hague that could send him to prison for life, Stanisic has called in a marker with his American allies. In an exceedingly rare move, the CIA has submitted a classified document to the court that lists Stanisic’s contributions and attests to his helpful role. The document remains sealed, but [...]
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
The little king from a little dynasty
“Ashton describes Hussein’s brush with LSD (Linda Christian, described as a “fading starlet” from Hollywood, brought it to one of the king’s parties; the king needed medical treatment afterward), as well as how the king chose which day to attack the Palestinian rebels, in what would become Black September of 1970, based on the advice [...]
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
The American Left and the Middle East: the lousy Example of the Nation magazine
Here, the Nation magazine continues in its Zionist apologia and provides praise for Grossman merely because he does not question Israeli decisions to engage in crimes, massacres, occupation, and wars of aggression. His son (a member of a terrorist army who probably killed–like other Israeli terrorist soldiers kill–a countless number of Palestinian and Arab civilians–is [...]
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad
Translation of my "Dance of Death: ‘Waltz with Bashir’ and Sympathy for the Killer
Phar kindly translated from Arabic my critique of Waltz with Bashir: Dance of Death: ‘Waltz with Bashir’ and Sympathy for the Killer” “The film “Waltzing with Bashir” is being shown in some cities here in America. I didn’t want to see it on the big screen so I didn’t have to hear the “oohs and [...]
Posted on March 1, 2009 by As'ad