Archive for April 12, 2011

UC, Berkeley event

I won’t be speaking at the UC, Berkeley event tomorrow hosted by Amnesty International due to an unforeseen circumstance. 

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

Angry Arabia on hunger strike: against the repression in Bahrain

Angry Arabia is on hunger strike. (thanks Sonia)

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

An-Nahar

An-Nahar (the dead Lebanese right-wing, sectarian Christian, racist anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people) newspaper which caters to Arab oil since the 1960s) has a new format and a new font.  I did not enjoy the old An-Nahar and enjoy le…

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

Flash: Mubarak is in hospital

Husni Mubrak was rushed to a hospital after the beginning of questioning.  I have received the detailed transcript:Investigator: So how much money have you stolen?Mubarak: I will answer you but first, let me have a heart attack.

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

Syrian reforms

The Syrian government plans serious reforms.  They said that before a person is placed in a tire to be tortured according to the famous Syrian Ba`thist technique, the person will be greeted warmly and offered a beverage.

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

Iraqi puppet ambassador in Lebanon

He is very unhappy with the Al-Akhbar’s coverage of Iraq.  He said that Saudi and Iranian media are the models to emulate.

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

King of Bahrain is a big fan of the “sophisticated” white man

“”But they [Iraqis] want to kill each other more than they want to modernize. If U.S. forces in Iraq pulled back, the various factions will be too scared to fight each other, he said, whereas with the U.S. presence, they are free to f…

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

King PlayStation steals lands

Former Jordanian prime minister, `Ali Abu Raghib, admits that Jordanian state lands have been registered in the name of the lousy king.

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

Yassin Al-Hajj Saleh in the New York Times

Of course, Saleh suffered from the brutality of the Syrian regime and I share many of his criticisms of the Syrian regime although I don’t share his decision to write about Syria in racist anti-Syrian (people) right-wing publications, like An-Nahar and…

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

It is official: France does not act like a colonial power

“France’s defense minister, Gérard Longuet, insistedn Tuesday that no French or United Nations troops had entered the presidential residence where Mr. Gbagbo was seized. In a radio interview, he dismissed as “totally absurd” suggestion…

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

Who arrested Gbagbo?

Suddenly the story that French special forces have actually arrested Gbagbo disappeared from news stories. It is now maintained that armed aliens from a friendly planet did the actual arrest of Gbagbo.

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

American fanatic Christians really heart Gbagbo

“It is impossible to know for sure if the group sided with Mr. Gbagbo because he is a Christian; his rival, Alassane Ouattara, recognized internationally as the winner of last year’s presidential election, is a Muslim. But to judge by the recent…

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

Emir of Qatar in Washington, DC

The meeting is a payback for Qatar’s recent foreign policy shifts in support of US/Saudi/Israeli plots for the region.

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

The New Egypt

So Egypt has officially nominated the politically opportunist, Mustafa Al-Faqi (who broke with Mubrak weeks before his ouster) as the new secretary-general of the League of Arab Tyrants.  But Faqi is keenly aware it is a different Egypt: he said t…

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

Bloggers in the Middle East

Bloggers in the Middle East are being arrested and tortured through out the Middle East, and only one blogger from Egypt get the attention of the West just because of his Zionism.  Yet, one think reassures me: I have never met or read an Arab defe…

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

The Egyptian blogger

I think that Israel should extend an asylum offer to this guy.  I am sure he would be glad to defend the state that he so admires.

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

The most famous Arab blogger in the West

Did I not tell you: the avalanche of coverage for this blogger has just begun.  It will only get worse, and the US Congress will take up his case only because he is a Zionist.  I expect that Human Rights Watch will name a special award after …

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

Egyptian anger at Saudi Arabia

This is delicious.  There is so much anger in Egypt against Saudi Arabia, not only for the long-standing Saudi support for Mubarak, but also for Saudi media support for Mubarak to the last minute.  Furthermore, the release of the audio tape b…

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

The lousy Egyptian Military

Look at Egyptian military orders to Egyptian media. (thanks Ahmet)

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad

And now a word from Brandeis center of Zionist advocacy

So according to Ms.  Bellin, there were two factors behind Arab uprisings.  One is, of course, facebook and twitter and blenders.  And the second reason:  ”Several key organizers, including veterans of the failed April 6 protest las…

Posted on April 12, 2011 by As'ad