Archive for September 9, 2010
Fashionable bigotry
Would an American writer be able to keep his/her job if she/he wrote those words about Judaism and Jews? ”"But, frankly, Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims. And among those Muslims led by the Imam Rauf there is hardly one who has rais…
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad
Chief Buffoon Lies
“Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat issued a statement on Wednesday alleging his televised address to Israelis asking that they be his “peace partner” was altered. The negotiations official said of the video that “Unfortunately, my statements we…
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad
Money trail of hate
“A onetime trustee of the hawkish Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Aubrey Chernick led the effort to pull together $3.5 million in venture capital to start Pajamas Media, a conservative blog network that made its name partly with hawkish p…
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad
Income Inequality in the US
“That was when the richest 1 percent accounted for 18 percent of the nation’s income. Today, the richest 1 percent account for 24 percent of the nation’s income…During the late 1980s and the late 1990s, the United States experienced two unprecedent…
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad
Runaway slaves in the Middle East
“Runaway Kenyan maid describes Saudi ordeal: “I worked day and night and was never paid”" (thanks Nikki)
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad
Giving orders
Reuters (thanks Daniel)
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad
state secrets
“A US court dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday against a Boeing subsidiary for allegedly flying terror suspects to secret CIA sites for interrogation, saying the case could have exposed state secrets.” (thanks Nabeel)
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad
Wadi Abu Jamil
I am reading Nada `Abd As-Samad (the BBC correspondent)’s book, Wadi Abu Jamil about the history of Lebanese Jews. I may write a whole article on the subject but I must confess that I was alarmed and underimpressed when I saw that her historical …
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad
Hannah Arendt on the Arab state
“As the late Nazih Ayubi noted in his book, Over-stating the Arab State: “The Arab state is therefore often violent because it is weak.”" Hannah Arendt addressed that decades ago when she wrote about the relationship of power and violence: that …
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad
Dictator in the service of Enlightenment
Comrade Khalid writes against enilghtenment
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad
Lebanon without Palestinians?
Comrade Fawwas imagines a scenario.
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad
Blair is as dumb and fanatical as Bush, but with a richer vocabulary. That is the all.
“Yet the prime minister stubbornly defied this advice and endorsed the Bush administration’s approach of foot-dragging on a UN ceasefire, allegedly to allow Israel more time to “knock out” Hezbollah. Previous biographies, such as Anthony Seldo…
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad
Liberation sport
“Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret “kill team” that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies. Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were alleg…
Posted on September 9, 2010 by As'ad