Archive for May 30, 2011
Oh, really? We did not know that. How surprising. We assumed that Western powers never intervene in internal affairs of Arab countries
“An al-Jazeera report appears to show western special forces on the frontline in Libya, in what the TV channel said was “evidence for the first time of allied boots on the ground”.” (thanks AK)
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
Egyptian Military summons comrade Hossam
“Blogger Hossam El-Hamalawy and television host Reem Maged were given a summons on Monday to appear before military prosecution after Maged screened on her show on Thursday Hamalawy criticising the role of military police, holding the head of the mi…
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
Secret Libyan rebel leaders
“Still, it may explain why the rebels’ Transitional National Council has so far refused to reveal the identities of most of its members. (This is a big issue for the United States, which has not recognized the rebels, at least in part out of concern …
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
With sweets and flowers
According to New York Times, Libyan people receive NATO bombers with “sweets and flowers.”
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
Ahmad Fatfat on Saudi King: watch Lebanese politicians prostrate before Saudi potentates
This is a classic and typical example. A Hariri MP, Ahmad Fatfat, who talks about democracy and human rights in Lebanon, gives an interview to a Saudi newspaper and talks about his feelings about the Saudi King.
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
This is Zionism
“Jerusalem policemen arrested a Palestinian seven-year-old child, relatives said on Sunday, claiming that the boy was battered by police officers during his arrest.” Can you imagine the uproar if a Muslim country held a seven-year-old Jewish ch…
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
Justice for Bahrain
Bahraini comrades sent me this: ”As you may know the oppressors in Bahrain are targeting professional women arresting from their places of work or study. Many have disappeared into military style prisons and have not had access to lawyers or th…
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
Manal Charif and women’s rights in Saudi Arabia
This is a report about the case. (thanks Madawi)
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
Zionists will freak out some more: the new Egypt
“Egypt’s foreign minister, Dr Nabil El Arabi, has affirmed that the detention of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the torture and killing of some, “represents a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convection and the principles of human…
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
Your hero, Chruchill
“In a period that saw historians like Niall Ferguson recommend the British Empire as a model for the exercise of American power abroad, the connection between Churchill’s imperialism and his racial prejudice became another major problem. It was most …
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
The other side of WWII
“Zamperini was a bombardier on a B-24, and at the very time he was being tortured by the Japanese, other bomber crews, made up of men no better or worse than he, carried out “Operation Gomorrah” — the weeklong raid on Hamburg, Germany, that in Ju…
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
NATO corrects the record: we only killed nine civilians
“Afghan officials said Sunday that a NATO airstrike had killed 14 civilians, most of them women and children, in the southern province of Helmand on Saturday night.Local officials said the strike was aimed at Taliban fighters and missed, hitt…
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
Memorial Day II
Will there ever be a special day to remember all those innocent civilians who have been butchered in US wars around the world?
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
HERE IS MY HOUSE; HERE IS MY HOMELAND
“”Here is my house,” he says, sitting on the remains of a stone wall in whose crevices wild flowers and saplings cling. “Now only the corners remain. Here is the taboun [outdoor oven] where my mother used to bake bread. The smell!” With…
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
Saudi King: I am but a servant…to US and Israel
Saudi King addresses his people with a few illiterate words. He says that “I am but a servant to you.” I think he thought he was talking to an Israeli audience. (thanks Mohammad)
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
The return of Palestinian Egypt: this should be read by Zionists worldwide (so they can freak out some more)
Famed Egyptian journalist, `Abdul-Halim Qandil, writes about “the return of Palestinian Egypt.”
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
The guilt of Arab children
Comrade Joseph writes: ”What is it about Jewish and Arab children that privileges the first and spurns the second in the speeches of President Barack Obama, let alone in the Western media more generally? Are Jewish children smarter, prettier, w…
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
The new Egypt: Israeli judoka snubbed by Egyptian rival
“The drama began at the end of the fight, when the referee signaled a handshake between the contestants. But Darwish ignored the order and began leaving. Several moments later, after repeated requests, the Egyptian walked to the center of the mattress,…
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad
Israel is so desperate for celebrity visits that they would roll out the red carpet for Mr./Ms. Potato Head
Now they are celebrating Sarah Silverman.
Posted on May 30, 2011 by As'ad