Archive for July 23, 2009
Alcohol-fueled
“Saudis and others have been known to flood the tiny nation on weekends, filling Manama’s bars and hotels, holding alcohol-fueled races through Bahrain’s streets and patronizing the many prostitutes who crowd the hotels and clubs.”
Posted by As'ad at 10:06 AM 07/23/09
Obama Doctrine
“Mr. Kaptagaev’s story is not unusual in this poor former Soviet republic in the mountains of Central Asia. Many opposition politicians and independent journalists have been arrested, prosecuted, attacked and even killed over the last year as the Kyr…
Posted by As'ad at 10:05 AM 07/23/09
An election fraud that you will like
“The leading opposition candidate in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia essentially withdrew from the presidential race on Thursday even before voting had concluded, asserting that widespread fraud had assured the incumbent’s victory.”
Posted by As'ad at 9:52 AM 07/23/09
Coverage of Iran
“Tweets, lies and videotape”
Posted by As'ad at 9:49 AM 07/23/09
Value of the space program
I have mocked the space program. I stand corrected. There is after all some value: we now know how to fix a toilet in outer space: “A pump on the recently installed toilet in the American laboratory, Destiny, broke Sunday, contaminating part of the …
Posted by As'ad at 9:49 AM 07/23/09
Amos Oz and the rest of the gang of Zionist hypocrisy
A group of Israeli leftist poseurs are now claiming to demand an investigation into “allegations” of war crimes in the Israeli assault on Gaza. It is sufficient to read the name of Amos Oz to smell hypocrisy. Here is a man who always want to have it …
Posted by As'ad at 9:43 AM 07/23/09
Harvard standards
“Despite the blunt admissions of Israeli soldiers widely published in the Israeli press, it was clear from her calm presentation that Sharvit-Baruch and her cohort live in their own rhetorical universe where even language is assaulted. In the Colone…
Posted by As'ad at 9:41 AM 07/23/09
Resounding failure
“Despite attempts by the operators of the Arrow missile defense system in Israel to portray Wednesday night’s aborted test as “a partial success,” in reality it was nothing less than a resounding failure. The fact that the interceptor missile failed…
Posted by As'ad at 9:40 AM 07/23/09
Oil workers’ union in Iraq
Conflict intensifies between the Iraqi puppet government and the oil workers. (thanks Dina)
Posted by As'ad at 9:38 AM 07/23/09
News that are not fit to print
“Three major Egyptian Islamist bloggers have been arrested over the last 48 hours”. (thanks Olivia)
Posted by As'ad at 9:37 AM 07/23/09
No jokes about the biggest joke in Pakistan
“Pakistanis who send jokes about Asif Zardari by text message, email or blog risk being arrested and given a 14-year prison sentence. The country’s interior minister, Rehman Malik, announced the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had been asked …
Posted by As'ad at 9:36 AM 07/23/09
Iran election fraud: votes to go
There is another aspect of potential fraud in the last presidential election in Iran. My sources in Lebanon tell me that the Iranian embassy would contact Iranians in Lebanon and ask them to vote. Diplomats from embassy would bring the ballot boxes t…
Posted by As'ad at 9:33 AM 07/23/09
Censorship in Free Iraq
There is [puppet] government censorship on all books and publications that enter Iraq. (thanks Sinan)
Posted by As'ad at 9:32 AM 07/23/09
Uncle Dahlan
Would Muhammad Dahlan do something dirty as to bomb the wedding of his own niece in Gaza? Nothing is too dirty for Muhammad Dahlan.
Posted by As'ad at 9:31 AM 07/23/09
Faruq Qaddumi
Husam Kanafani correctly blasts Faruq Qaddumi and discredits him (while attacking the Dahlans of course).
Posted by As'ad at 9:29 AM 07/23/09
The New Saudi ambassador in Lebanon
You need to read this hagiographic article on the new Saudi ambassador in Lebanon in An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people) which is partly owned by Prince Al-Walid bin Talal and the Greek Orthodo…
Posted by As'ad at 9:26 AM 07/23/09
Leszek Kolakowski
Tributes for right-wing anti-communist polemicist, Leszek Kolakowski are pouring in. The tributes are uniformly referring to him as this great thinker and even “philosopher.” But if you read the works of the man, he did not write like a political thi…
Posted by As'ad at 9:16 AM 07/23/09
Another item on Arab Human Development Report
Comrade Joseph and comrade Samah blast the new Arab Human Development Report.
Posted by As'ad at 9:12 AM 07/23/09
Arab Human Development Report
Comrade Khaled provides a succinct critique of the origins and controversy of the new Arab Human Development Report.PS People should know that the Arab Human Development Report is now funded and managed by the outfit of Prince Khalid Al-Faysal (known a…
Posted by As'ad at 9:11 AM 07/23/09
