Archive for April 23, 2011
How can you support a council that has the stamp of approval from Sen. McCain?
““I have met these brave fighters, and they are not Al Qaeda,” said Mr. McCain, Republican of Arizona. “They are Libyan patriots who want to liberate their nation.” His comments came after a brief visit that included meetings with the memb…
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Egyptian revolutionary comrades
…are calling for a demonstration against the Zionist embassy in Cairo. BE THERE: or Be Like Mubarak.Jamal kindly translated:”March and Stand-In In Front of the Embassy of the Zionist Entity “The Supporters of the Palestinian Revolution”…
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Women’s rights in Yemen
“In “Offended Yemeni Women Protest President’s Remarks” (news article, April 17), you noted that Yemen’s conservative customs concerning women are not legislated as in neighboring Saudi Arabia. To the contrary, in many ways sex discrimination i…
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Democracy is coming to Egypt
The sign says: “No to American imperialism and its Wahhabi tool in Egypt and the region.”
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
What Aljazeera does not cover: dictatorships of the GCC
“Gulf citizens today are financially rich but politically poor. The economic incentives that governments have unveiled since the protests began this year will ultimately prove ineffectual. Those financial packages in no way tackle the Gulf economies…
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Al-Baradi`i (or Albaradeeeiiiiiieeaaaaeeiiiii in US newspapers) run for office
“I was aghast at what I was witnessing,” ElBaradei writes of the official U.S. attitude before the March 2003 invasion, which he calls “aggression where there was no imminent threat,” a war in which he accepts estimates that hundreds of thousands of…
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
The most popular (in the West) Middle East dictatorship
“No other dictatorship in the region has been as indifferent and destructive for so long over those it ruled, as the Zionist regime has been in Palestine. It didn’t hesitate to use lethal, excessive force time and again against those unde…
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Oman
Thousands protest in Oman: not a word in the Western press.
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Protesters in Saudi Arabia
Not much in the Western press about protests in Saudi Arabia.
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
For those who say there are no foreign policy goals for protests in Egypt
“Selling gas to Israel was deeply unpopular in Egypt from the time the pipeline opened in 2008, given the sour public mood toward its neighbor, and it was a rallying point for the Tahrir Square protest movement since its start in January.”
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Don’t you want to meet those “independent military analysts”?
“Independent military analysts and officials of both countries believe that if all American forces leave as scheduled, it could threaten security in Iraq, where there are daily explosions and where ethnic tensions remain high. A continued American mili…
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Bandar
There are idiots in the pro-Syrian camp in Lebanon who don’t think that the Saudi King is responsible for the policies of Saudi Arabia, or that Bandar is acting on his own: ”I’ve lost count of how many times people have asked me in recent years, …
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Aljazeera and Bahrain
Adel Iskandar tells me that he was heavily edited out by Aljazeera English in his remarks on the coverage (or lack of coverage) of Bahrain.
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Al-Manar TV
There have been no protests in Syria as far as Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah station) is concerned. They only report statements by Al-Asad without talking about the news that led to the statements.
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Information pollution
There was a show on Syrian state TV today about information pollution. They brought in an expert who warned parents of the dangers of the “internet”. He parents should be very careful about what their kids see because there have been docume…
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Two Syrian MPs resign
Aljazeera which now has put the news about Syria ahead of its propaganda news about Libya is repeating the news that two Syrian MPs resigned in protest against yesterday’s shootings by security forces. I bet you that the two MPs were among …
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Free advice to Arab revolutions and uprisings–but not the lousy Libyan transitional council
I am willing to give free advice–if asked–to any Arab uprising or revolution. However, I don’t and would not render any advice to any Arab regime to help them stay in power because I don’t want any Arab regime (or the lousy Iranian regime) to s…
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Syrian State TV
It is not true that Syrian state TV is ignoring the protests (as this ill-informed guy from Freedom House says in the NYT today: ”In Syria, state television operates as if growing protests and a government crackdown are not taking place”. B…
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
Bashshar hearts clerics, priests, and ministers
Lately, Syrian TV keeps reairing footage of Bashshar Al-Asad shaking hands with clerics, priests, and ministers. The footage is accompanied by chants of prayer and tolling of bells.
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad
The father/mother of all buffoons
“Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa is perhaps the most tech-savvy of the Gulf states’ foreign ministers. In addition to his official government day job, Shaikh Khalid also maintains an active personal Twitter account thro…
Posted on April 23, 2011 by As'ad