Archive for March 3, 2011
Teaching hate to US police forces
“Kharoba belongs to a growing profession, one that is ballooning on the spigot of federal and state dollars set aside for counterterrorism efforts since the attacks of September 11, 2001. He is a counterterrorism instructor to America’s beat cops, on…
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Coverage of Saudi Arabia by Aljazeera will suffer
“RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Qatar signed four agreements on Tuesday to strengthen cooperation in the areas of fighting drugs and protection of environment, during a meeting of the Saudi-Qatari Coordination Council in Riyadh. The agreements were s…
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Like the puppet that he is, he later called the White House to apologize for saying this
“”There is a control room working for the media and you know where it is — in Tel Aviv,” Saleh said live on state television. “These events are managed by the White House.”" Salih should have said: I, the Yemeni tyrant, am run from a control …
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Cleric Abdul-Majid Zindani on porn in heaven
A Syrian reader sent me this: ”I went to high school in Yemen and in the 10th or 11th grade sheikhzindani came to our school to lecture us on Islamic virtues. After the lecture , one of the students asked him ” can we watch porn in he…
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Robert Fisk and Thomas Friedman: I can see them as friends
Not only I have now become quite unhappy with his reporting, not only on Lebanon where he recycles Hariri propaganda slogans, but also for his inserting his heroic self in every story. I have now difficulty even buying his stories, to be honest. …
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Israeli military raids Palestinian homes to take photographs of children
This is Israel. (thanks Farah)
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
To Naomi Wolf
I did like her first book, the Beauty Myth. It was a good feminist critique of notions of capitalistic beauty. But her later work was not even feminist, in my opinion. She also is a hard core Zionist. I really really kindly ask …
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Aljazeera’s chief correspondent in Amman
For some reason, and people are getting suspicious, Aljazeera chief correspondent in Amman is nowhere to be seen. Yasir Abu Hlalah took off to Tunisia.
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Jordanian students
Aljazeera has just aired a report about a Jordanian school in which students protesters chanted in unison against the school principal who hit a teacher. They chanted (borrowed from Egyptian protests):الشعب يريد إسقاط المدير(t…
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
BBC Arabic Service
For some reason, I just taped an interview with the BBC Arabic Service about Abraham Lincoln. Don’t ask me why. But let me be clear: I have never been a fan. I have actually read all of the Lincoln-Douglas debates and you cant read th…
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Zionism is racism, always
“Veteran diplomat Ilan Baruch quits, says he can no longer represent government; Israel’s foreign policy is ‘wrong,’ he says, adds that blaming global anti-occupation views on anti-Semitism is ‘simplistic, artificial’” (thanks Redouane)
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Watching chicken roast on cable: that is what I call reality TV
“Some Canadian cable subscribers will soon be able to watch a restaurant chain’s chickens spinning and roasting on rotisseries 24 hours a day. The Swiss Chalet chain, which specializes in roasted chicken and ribs, announced on Facebook, in conjun…
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Begging US to help Israel: boo hoo hoo
“Israeli company Merhav MNF Ltd. has confirmed that the East Mediterranean Gas Co. Ltd. (EMG) will not resume supplies of natural gas to Israel on Friday. This is the third time that the resumption of gas supplies has been delayed, and unlike the pr…
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Hamdi Qandil: the brave Egyptian Journalist
“On Wednesday night, hours before he would resign, Shafiq appeared on a talk show with Naguib Sawiris, one of the country’s leading businessmen, and Hamdi Kandil, a longtime pundit and journalist. The meeting turned raucous as Kandil, staring down S…
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
I am sorry: Not only Zionists are freaking out
“Oil- and energy-rich Gulf Arab states are considering rolling out a massive Marshall Plan-style program to help poorer neighbors Bahrain and Oman tackle unrest and social discontent, Kuwaiti media has reported. “
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Giving advice to Hariri tribunal on how to refine its propaganda work
“The tribunal also has lacked any real communications plan to build its credibility as a politically independent judicial body, including in the eyes of pro-Hezbollah and March 8 coalition supporters, who have doubted its credibility.” Person…
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Now Amr Mousa has become anti-Israel
“In an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm daily, the former Egyptian foreign minister recalled his disagreements with ousted President Hosni Mubarak regarding Israel. “The foreign ministry during my term suffered from a negative policy on Israel’s part…
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Hillary Clinton hails reforms of Saudi King
A brother from Tunisia sent me this: ”Saudi activists alleged Wednesday that state security shot dead a leading online activist, who was calling for a ‘Day of Rage’ on March 11 in the oil-rich kingdom. Faisal Ahmed Abdul-Ahadwas, 27, was …
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
BBC has decided that there are no protests in Iraq
For Western media, it has to be denied that there are protests in Iraq. It just does not fit the hegemonic Western narrative. (thanks Mohammad)
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad
Crimes and less crimes
“”Il est vrai que tous les racismes ne sont pas affectés d’un coefficient égal d’impunité. Zemmour aurait-il pris les juifs comme cible de son «incorrection politique», au lieu de cogner sur les Noirs et les Arabes, qu’il serait déj
Posted on March 3, 2011 by As'ad