Archive for September, 2011
The return of Salih
Comrade Fawwaz writes about the return of `Ali `Abdullah Salih and the US/Saudi roles in Yemen.
Posted on September 29, 2011 by As'ad
When NATO writes out history
Comrade Amer provides the best critique I have read of NATO’s “liberation” of Libya. Somebody should translate.
Posted on September 29, 2011 by As'ad
Israel’s dirty hands in Syria
I believe that Israeli dirty hands are involved in every case in the Arab world, or Africa or beyond, where there is a civil war or turmoil of any kind. The assassination of the nuclear physicist in Syria yesterday has the footprints of Israeli Z…
Posted on September 29, 2011 by As'ad
The Saudi League will replace the Arab League
Egypt will be joining the GCC? (thanks Sultan)
Posted on September 29, 2011 by As'ad
Arab Spring Tourism
“I am indeed speaking of frustrations because “we” as “locals” have been experiencing a situation, time and again, of being reduced to becoming at best “service providers” for visiting scholars, a term I borrowed from my colleague, politica…
Posted on September 29, 2011 by As'ad
Is this terrorism? Toward a new official US definition
As you know, the US government has restricted the movement of the Syrian ambassador in DC. But the regime of Bashshar Al-Asad is not only repressive: it is a regime that is drenched in humiliation. It does not know what self-respect is even…
Posted on September 29, 2011 by As'ad
Saudi beheadings
Last week, Saudi government beheaded a Sudanese man accused of sorcery. This week, it beheaded a Jordanian man accused of selling drugs. Notice that the House of Saud only beheads Arabs and dark skinned immigrants. You may be an Ameri…
Posted on September 29, 2011 by As'ad
Israel’s last year
I was reading in the Israeli press. That 2011 was a bad year for Israel. I know. It was indeed a bad year. And I hope that next year will be worse and the following even worse. On and on until the demise of the Zionist usurping entity is accompli…
Posted on September 29, 2011 by As'ad
Pepperdine University’s poll of Syria
Saudi and Qatari media have been touting a “poll of Syria”. It got my attention because I try to follow public opinion surveys in the region. Then I heard on a Saudi news channel (Al-Arabiyya TV, owned by King Fahd’s brother-in-law) that it…
Posted on September 29, 2011 by As'ad
Feltman and his fascination with wealth
I have written about Feltman recently in Al-Akhbar English. I said that we now know so much about him from the thousands of Wikileaks that were written by him. He reveals himself as a petty man with obsessed with gossip in his reporting fro…
Posted on September 29, 2011 by As'ad
Question of the Day from Gulf Bank: Can you live in Kuwait without a maid?
Look to your right at the question of the day. (thanks Achille)
Posted on September 28, 2011 by As'ad
Students for Justice in Palestine
Help support Students for Justice in Palestine. (thanks Farah)
Posted on September 28, 2011 by As'ad
Sistani: Cleric of the Occupation
This diary of the July War of 2006 by an aides to Nabih Birri reveals that the latter had to pressure the Sistani to issue a statement about the Qana Massacre II. Sistani must have been scared of his American sponsors. I have said it …
Posted on September 28, 2011 by As'ad
Shi`ite clerics who are crooks
Apparently, the report about Shi`ite clerics in Lebanon who are crooks (which was published in Al-Akhbar) generated tons of angry responses from people. I posted a link to the article yesterday. Somebody should volunteer to translate it.
Posted on September 28, 2011 by As'ad
Zionists for Obama
“Mr. Koch noted that the last time he was invited to such an event was when he was mayor and Ronald Reagan was president. In the e-mail, Mr. Koch wrote that Mr. Obama deserved praise for intervening to protect Israeli diplomats in Cairo and for providi…
Posted on September 28, 2011 by As'ad
Militants?
“Militants on Tuesday attacked a pipeline carrying natural gas from Egypt to Jordan and Israel. ” Militants? Why militants? How did the New York Times know? Then the paper says: ”The authorities did not name suspects in…
Posted on September 28, 2011 by As'ad
Israeli connections
“Jacob Fattal expressed surprise and gratitude that the Israeli press did not report on his son’s Israeli connections.” Well, the US press also did not report on his Israeli connections. Anything for Israel and Israelis–in the US media.
Posted on September 28, 2011 by As'ad
new locations for the Israeli occupation embassy
“A team of five Israeli diplomats, headed by Consul General to Egypt Yaakov Dvir, visited Cairo for a few hours on Tuesday, in search of possible new locations for the Israeli Embassy, Germany’s DPA news agency reported. According to the report, …
Posted on September 28, 2011 by As'ad
Lebanese Shi`ites don’t do parties or arts: from the New York Times
“To Beirut’s art-and-party crowd — which consists mostly of French-educated Maronite Catholics but includes doses of Christian Orthodox, Sunni Muslims and Druse — the question of whether the new government will regain some kind of productivity do…
Posted on September 28, 2011 by As'ad
Occupation facts: West Bank
“522 roadblocks and checkpoints obstruct Palestinian movement in the West Bank, compared to 503 in July 2010.So far in 2011, an additional 495 ad-hoc ‘flying’ checkpoints obstructed movement around the West Bank each month (on average), compared to…
Posted on September 28, 2011 by As'ad