Archive for November 9, 2009
Israeli miracle? Thus spoke Dan Senor
Dan Senor, the former spokesperson of the American occupation apparatus in Iraq, is now suddenly (with no training in Middle East studies, unless you count a semester in Israel in business administration as Middle East studies) a Middle East expert at …
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
The puppet has fallen: you can’t get him up
“Ramallah indifferent to Abbas’ pending departure”. Oh, really? Are you saying that the PA chief puppet is not popular? Despite having the charisma of a potato?
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Saudi army captures Hawthi fighters
Look at them. Don’t they look like children? (Prince Salman’s mouthpiece).
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Will the Feminist Majority order a war on Israel, just as it urged a war on Afghanistan?
“Israeli municipality staff delivered a notice to demolish the Women’s Society office in the Old City of Jerusalem, accusing the organization of 100 square meters of unlicensed construction.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Income equality and power in the US
“Among the highlights: Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. That’s 44 percent of the body – compared to about 1 percent of Americans overall.”
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Faye and Heidegger
No more silly than Faye’s thesis about Heidegger: “The denunciation of reason and soulless modernism can devolve into crude anti-intellectualism and the glorification of “blood and soil.â€, is the ill-informed review of this thesis by Patricia Cohe…
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Communism and anti-communism
“What these belated anti-Communists fail to realize is that the image they provide of their society comes uncannily close to the most abused traditional leftist image of capitalism: a society in which formal democracy merely conceals the reign of a wea…
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Crisis of Capitalism and socialism
Comrade Khalid on the crisis of capitalism and socialism.
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Anne Frank in Lebanon
There are two articles in Al-Akhbar criticizing the dumb editorial on Al-Manar (Hizbullah) TV criticizing the incorporation of Anne Frank in the curriculum of a Lebanese private school. Al-Manar TV is most dumb when it thinks it is being most smart.
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Zionism is racism
“More than 83 percent of employers are repelled by the idea of hiring an Arab without a university degree, found the study conducted by the Kiryat Ono Academy. ” (thanks Tarek)
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Helping unwed moms in Morocco
“Channa, 68, founder of the Association Solidarité Féminine in Casablanca, Morocco, landed a very large bird Wednesday, when she was announced as the winner of the $1 million Opus Prize, administered this year through the University of St. Thomas …
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Israeli Orientalism: teaching of Arabic in the usurping entity
Teaching Arabic in Israel. Distortions and mistakes in the teaching of Arabic in Israel. I don’t think that it is deliberate, as it is suggested in the article. I believe that Israeli Orientalists are genuinely and really ignorant and incompetent. …
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Cedars of Lebanon street in Ottawa
I am told that a street will named after the “Cedars of Lebanon” in Ottawa, Canada. Citizens of Canada are urged to use the street for public urination because budget cuts have affected public restrooms in the city.
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Lisa Goldman and the media award
Yesterday I posted an item about a media award for Lisa Goldman. (And shame on Amin Malouf for agreeing to sit on the jury committee, but this is not the first political transgression by this former leftist). A person sent me this (I am citing with h…
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
The Yemen conflict
“The conflict has become self-perpetuating, giving rise to a war economy as tribes, army officers and state officials have seized the opportunity to control the porous border with Saudi Arabia and the Red Sea coastline. Tribal leaders and senior off…
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Afghanistan “election” fiasco
“The Taliban gleefully claimed that the election had been decided in Washington and London. Most independent observers would concur. Days before Dr Abdullah threw in the towel, a Western diplomat said “we are already looking forward to Mr Karzai’s …
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
King Fahd ordered him cheese
There is no bottom for Arab journalists who wish to prostrate before Saudi princes. Anis Mansur, Sadat’s close confidante and fellow right-wing anti-Semite, praises King Fahd because he ordered him cheese for dinner. Kid you not.
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
The Economist on the Berlin Wall
The Economist is, no competition, the best magazine there is. Of course, I have my criticisms and complain. The tendency of the Editor to use and over use the word “reckon” in every article is really annoying. In the section on the US in the new iss…
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
The Israeli story of an Iranian ship of weapons
There is something really fishy about this story from the beginning. And I notice that Zionist media in the US, like the New York Times and the Washington Post, have not played up the story as they usually do with any propaganda plot coming out of the…
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad
Alice Rossi
“Familiar today, Professor Rossi’s argument was considered subversive at the time. As a result, she was called a monster, an unnatural woman and an unfit mother, as she recalled in interviews afterward.”
Posted on November 9, 2009 by As'ad