Archive for September 3, 2009
Israel: dirty hands unto the nations
“When Radio Uganda announced at dawn on 25 January 1971 that Idi Amin was Uganda’s new ruler, many people suspected that Britain had a hand in the coup. However, Foreign Office papers released last year point to a different conspirator: Israel…The…
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
Qadhdhafi laughing
Here, the Libyan dictator is seen laughing heartily: he was just told a funny joke.
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
Donkeytube
“Two bloggers from Azerbaijan are facing up to five years in jail after posting a video of a donkey giving a news conference on YouTube.” (thanks Zaki)
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
Sexism and misogyny in UK
Lenin’s Tomb sent me this: “For example, 16% of people in England and Wales think it is acceptable for a man to beat his wife or girlfriend if she nags; 13% think it is acceptable for a man to beat his wife or girlfriend if she flirts with other men…
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
One Thousand Potatoes
Can somebody find out for me? If I were to send him a thousand potatoes, would he mention me in the acknowledgement section of his book? I need to find out before I ship the potatoes.
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
Bravo, Norway!
“Bravo, Norway!” (thanks Amer)
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
Saudi reform
“A report by the Human Rights Watch pressure group has detailed what it says is systematic discrimination in Saudi Arabia against Shia Muslims.”
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
She has a token Arab (bedouin) patient: and she thinks she deserves a blender
“I am a doctor; my professional career has focused on preventing hereditary genetic diseases in the Bedouin Arab community. Today, the laboratory that I founded at Ben-Gurion University is working with Bedouin, Palestinian and Jordanian doctors and …
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
Leviev
“Africa Israel Investments stock plummeted after the real estate firm said it could not repay billions of dollars in debt. Sunday’s announcement by the company, owned by Russian-Jewish billionaire Lev Leviev, caused shares to drop 25.5 percent on th…
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
One theory of the Yemeni conflict
“Saleh is getting old and is probably tired. He is grooming his son to replace him. Ali Muhsin considers himself to be the more deserving than Saleh’s son, especially that the latter has zero popularity and charisma and no one would recognize him in…
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
SSNP and LCP
Comrade Raed wrote a critique of the Lebanese Communist Party and the SSNP.
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
Banning issues of Al-Akhbar and As-Safir in Syria
The lousy Syrian regime continues to ban issues of Al-Akhbar and As-Safir. (thanks Ahmad)
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
A new Arab think tank
It was announced that a new Arab think tank was founded in Kuwait by “an elite group of politicians and academic thinkers.” I kid you not. That is what the official announcement said. So who are those thinkers? They are: Fu’ad Sanyurah, Iyad `Allaw…
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
Weekend at Sultan’s
Now you look at this picture closely. Some of you may wonder about Prince Sultan given previous reports on this site that the man is dead. Well, look again. You shall see that both King `Abdullah and Yemeni president are holding hands with Prince Su…
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
This is supposed to be philosophy
“He visited America regularly, though, and it was in his Jefferson lecture, the highest honour the federal government gives for intellectual achievement, that he coined his best-known aphorism: “We learn history not in order to know how to behave or …
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
Autocrats you like
“Indeed, the king brooks no criticism. Reporters Without Borders, an international media watchdog, says that in the past ten years Moroccan journalists have been sentenced to more than 25 years in prison and $2.9m in fines, hamstringing what was once t…
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
How to “conquer” Masturbation
I was reading the issues of An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people), chauvinist Lebanese newspaper) during the 1958 civil war. I came across a medical advice column. This man wrote to them that h…
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
Hamas: on the footsteps of Fath (in veils)
““HAMAS is very close on recognition of Israel,†says Ahmed Yousef, the Islamist movement’s deputy foreign minister, speaking from the top floor of a high-rise building in Gaza City. “We show all sorts of ideological flexibility on this.—
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad
To the Editor of the Economist
The word reckon is being over-used in the magazine, in article after article. Do something about it.
Posted on September 3, 2009 by As'ad