Archive for December 8, 2009
I just read the full article from Sunday’s NYT’s about how Obama reached his decision on Afghanistan. It is a two and half page piece of propaganda intended by White House to show a process of careful study in order to camouflage the obvious: that Ob…
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
Lebanon’s Minister of Interior: Ziyad Barud
I am not a fan of the last parliamentary election in Lebanon. It may have been the most corrupt election in Lebanese history, in terms of buying of votes and rigging voters’s registration, or moving them to other districts to achieve sectarian prepond…
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
Jordan’s government does not mind
“Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday in an interview in the United States that Israel cannot fly over Gaza and then participate in an air force drill over Turkish land.”
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
Run and hide
So a Saudi student allegedly killed professor Richard Antoun. So what does Saudi media do? Deny that he was a “sponsored” Saudi student, whatever that means. Just like after Sep. 11, Saudi government denied that the 15 hijackers were from Saudi Arabi…
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking in Lebanon.
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
restrictions
“The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns external travel restrictions imposed on the population of the Gaza Strip. These restrictions also apply to patients seeking medical treatment unavailable in the Gaza Strip. PCHR calls upon the G…
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
Israel produces organized and disorganized crimes
“Israeli organized crime activity in Los Angeles has gotten “a little bit worse” recently, LAPD terrorism chief Michael P. Downing told the Jerusalem Post this week on a visit in Tel Aviv. He also alluded to “a little bit of convergence between terrori…
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
Religious states that US liberals find cute
“Justice Minister Yaakov Ne’eman said Tuesday that the law of Torah should be adopted in Israel.” (thanks Sarah)
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
embedded scholarship
“A two-year-old Pentagon program that assigns social scientists to work with military units in Iraq and Afghanistan has come under sharp criticism from a panel of anthropologists who argue that the undertaking is dangerous, unethical and unscholarly. …
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
Taliban shadow government
“As the United States prepares to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to bolster Karzai’s beleaguered government, Taliban leaders are quietly pushing ahead with preparations for a moment they believe is inevitable: their return to power. The T…
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
Buffoon in chief
I am not making this up. Al-Quds Al-`Arabi is reporting that Abu Mazen has settled on Sa’ib`Uraykat as his successor for PA chief collaborator. This would be a great opportunity for the chief PA buffoon to display his buffonery before the world.
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
The record of the NYT
“Over the same 3-year period since August 1, 2006, however, Rich has never addressed issues related to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands, let alone how these are directly abetted by US policies. There are occasional references to Hamas, Hezbolla…
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
A gift for Iraqi militias
“Under new authority granted by the Pentagon, U.S. commanders in Iraq may now donate to the Iraqis up to $30 million worth of equipment from each facility they leave, up from the $2 million cap established when the guidelines were first set in 2005. Th…
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
History will record: present-day anti-Semites
Just as writers in the West used to write in justification of Nazi anti-Jewish laws and measures, writers in the West today will be remembered for providing justifications for anti-Muslim laws and measures in Europe. And notice that American liberals …
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
rooting out corruption?
“The framing of Afghanistan’s governance problems with the simplistic gloss of “corruption” is yet another trivialization of reality, exceeded only by the idea that Afghan President Hamid Karzai can and will turn off corruption at will, and notably in …
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad
US cash at work
“Perhaps more worryingly, according to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius: “A search of IRS records identified 28 US charitable groups that made a total of $33.4m in tax-exempt contributions to settlements and related organisations between 2004 a…
Posted on December 8, 2009 by As'ad