Archive for June 23, 2009
X-Box Hariri
Flash. I have received this information from a very reliable source: the reason why `Uqab Saqr (director of NowHariri website) was put on the Hariri list in Zahlah (and he won a parliamentary seat), is that he has become very close to mini-Hariri beca…
Posted by As'ad at 1:52 PM 06/23/09
This is Zionism
“Israeli woman denied social benefits for visiting Palestinian husband.” (thanks Yassine)
Posted by As'ad at 12:45 PM 06/23/09
CNN explains the causes of the Iranian Revolution
Elise Labott of CNN explains the underlying causes of the Iranian Revolution: “Pahlavi has lived in exile since 1979, when his father, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, was overthrown during the Islamic Revolution. Under the shah’s regime, Iran saw nation…
Posted by As'ad at 12:41 PM 06/23/09
I don’t like flags but…
“Palestinian girls with their faces painted in the colours of their national flag attend a summer camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 21, 2009.” (thanks Julie)
Posted by As'ad at 12:31 PM 06/23/09
Sexism
“The female driver of the moving train was among the dead.” Why did they mention her gender? (thanks Marc)
Posted by As'ad at 12:22 PM 06/23/09
Fake
“Two people asked a Pentagon official cooperating with prosecutors in an investigation into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to fake his own death to avoid testifying against two pro-Israel lobbyists charged in the case, according to the…
Posted by As'ad at 12:16 PM 06/23/09
Mousavi
“Mousavi, prime minister for most of the 1980s, personally selected his point man for the Beirut terror campaign, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-pur, and dispatched him to Damascus as Iran’s ambassador, according to former CIA and military officials. The amb…
Posted by As'ad at 11:51 AM 06/23/09
Iran and the Arab world
“As’ad AbuKhalil, Lebanese politics professor at California State University, said Iranian opponents of Ahmadinejad — if they come out on top — would still likely promote a nationalist agenda that Riyadh sees as a threat to its interests. Opposition…
Posted by As'ad at 11:46 AM 06/23/09
“We are with you”
“I did what I could and he said, “We are with you” in English.” What did he mean by “you”? The White Man? The New York Times? or the Western colonial heritage?
Posted by As'ad at 11:45 AM 06/23/09
ABC of Iranian developments
Let me explain the ABC of Iranian developments to you. Rafsanjani (the wealthiest and most corrupt man in Iran) represents refrom, and Moussavi (who led one of the most repressive eras in the Iranian revolutionary era and who sponsored Hizbullah in it…
Posted by As'ad at 11:41 AM 06/23/09
ABC of Iranian developments
Let me explain the ABC of Iranian developments to you. Rafsanjani (the wealthiest and most corrupt man in Iran) represents refrom, and Moussavi (who led one of the most repressive eras in the Iranian revolutionary era and who sponsored Hizbullah in it…
Posted by As'ad at 11:41 AM 06/23/09
Shah’s family
The media coverage went from crazy to insane this week. Now, they are–KID YOU NOT–reporting on the reactions of the Shah’s family. Some of them at CNN in fact think that the Iranian people are demonstrating to restore the Shah’s son to power. I he…
Posted by As'ad at 11:38 AM 06/23/09
Shah’s family
The media coverage went from crazy to insane this week. Now, they are–KID YOU NOT–reporting on the reactions of the Shah’s family. Some of them at CNN in fact think that the Iranian people are demonstrating to restore the Shah’s son to power. I he…
Posted by As'ad at 11:38 AM 06/23/09
Didn’t know until this week
I discovered this week that Western media are capable of personalizing victims–only when they want, and only when it serves the larger imperial interests. You watch the coverage and want to us some American reporters: you were under the impression th…
Posted by As'ad at 11:35 AM 06/23/09
Didn’t know until this week
I discovered this week that Western media are capable of personalizing victims–only when they want, and only when it serves the larger imperial interests. You watch the coverage and want to us some American reporters: you were under the impression th…
Posted by As'ad at 11:35 AM 06/23/09
I am back..
May revolutions erupt worldwide.
Posted by As'ad at 11:34 AM 06/23/09
I am back..
May revolutions erupt worldwide.
Posted by As'ad at 11:34 AM 06/23/09
MEMRI: their hilarious standards
So MEMRI switches from covering religious Ben Ladenite kooks in the Arab world to covering the propagandists of the ruling Arab regimes (minus Syria). In the past, MEMRI would refer to the propagandists of the Saudi And Egyptian regimes as “progresive…
Posted by As'ad at 11:33 AM 06/23/09
MEMRI: their hilarious standards
So MEMRI switches from covering religious Ben Ladenite kooks in the Arab world to covering the propagandists of the ruling Arab regimes (minus Syria). In the past, MEMRI would refer to the propagandists of the Saudi And Egyptian regimes as “progresive…
Posted by As'ad at 11:33 AM 06/23/09
