Archive for July 22, 2009
White shoes in Damascus
Comrade Khaled on neo-liberalism and white shoes in Damascus.
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad
Fascist
“Israel’s foreign minister ran into controversy on the first day of a Latin American trip Tuesday when an official of Brazil’s ruling party reportedly called him a “fascist.— (thanks Devin)
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad
Uncle Dahlan
CNN hearts Dahlan.
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad
Boycott
“AHAVA Dead Sea Laboratories, an Israeli cosmetics company, has situated its main manufacturing plant and showroom at the Israeli Jewish settlement Mitzpe Shalem in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank near the shores of the Dead Sea. Mitzpe Shalem, b…
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad
All that you have done is registered in OUR notebooks
“The Israeli government will remove references to what Palestinians call the “catastrophe” of Israel’s creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the education minister said Wednesday.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad
Zionist hoodlums
So Zionist hoodlums are under instructions from Israeli propaganda outlets to write Zionist comments on websites that are opposed to Israel and its wars and occupation. And since I closed down the comments’ section, Zionist hoodlums feel very frustrat…
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad
Being black in the US
Remember this: a black man in the US is 75 times more likely than a white man to be stopped by police.
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad
Knafah Mania
Blame Lebanese influence for this: “Days prior to the Nablus event, rumors spread that 10 keys were going to be hidden inside the kanafeh and whoever found the keys would walk away with a new car. To add madness to an already absurd situation people…
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad
Gen. `Abdul-`Aziz and Israel
A well-informed reader sent me this about Gen. `Abdul-`Aziz of Mauritania. I wanted to share lest people think that I was defending the general. (The writer does not want to be identified): “General Abdelaziz in Mauritania is no opponent of Israel, …
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad
Ali Allawi: the former puppet defense minister of Iraq
Ali Allawi does not want you to know that he was a puppet defense minister appointed by the Bush administration in Iraq. In this article he merely tells you that he was “a cabinet minister” as if he was serving in London in a democratically elected go…
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad
Who is scared of whom?
Unarmed Palestinian women facing an Israeli occupation soldier. (Al-Quds Al-`Arabi)
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad
The Iran story (again) and the Revolutionary Guards: a matter of documentation and substantiation
This is not about politics: it is about journalism or even basic methods of documentation. I really want to know about the developments in Iran but know that the media are woefully inadequate: Hizbullah media want us to know that all is well in Iran a…
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad
Lebanon: the shallow homeland
There was jubilation in Lebanon today. The country has been for a few years on the verge of civil war, Israel has been destroying the country for decades, the Hariri economy has produced a massive debt of $50 billion, the Palestinians in Lebanon are m…
Posted on July 22, 2009 by As'ad