Archive for October 6, 2011
Mufti Hassun
The speech by Syrian Mufti Hassun was a propaganda hit for Syrian state propaganda. Now, it seems that the Mufti is asked to give speeches: Regime TVs are carrying them.
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Tantawi
I have to say: Tantawi has a good speaking voice.
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Lebanon at a standstill
My latest blog post on Lebanon’s political situation in Al-Akhbar English.
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Meet the glorious NATO rebels
“Reporting from Abu Hadi, Libya—Forces loyal to Libya’s transitional leaders looted and burned civilian homes Wednesday in the recently captured village of Abu Hadi, near ousted ruler Moammar Kadafi’s besieged tribal homeland of Surt.”
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
29 Jordanians to be beheaded in Saudi Arabia
Can you imagine if the executing state is not Saudi Arabia? Can you imagine the uproar? A decision to behead 29 Jordanians for different convictions. Will silly King PlayStation and wife Youtube tweet on that?
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Some good news
Adonis did not win the Nobel prize in literature. Damn. That means we have one more year of Adonis working hard to try to please the White Man.
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Can you imagine the uproar if this has happened to a non-Muslim?
“A Muslim woman from San Diego is suing Southwest Airlines after being taken off a flight in March when crew members deemed her behavior suspicious. Irum Abbasi, who was wearing a hijab, the Islamic head scarf, was seated on a flight preparing to…
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Protests in Kuwait
“Demands for a change of government are growing louder in Kuwait, where per-capita gross domestic product was about $39,000 last year and the authorities started food and cash handouts in February as Egyptian protesters were driving Hosni Mubarak from …
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
WINEP: desperate for the token Arab
1) Winep is remarketing itself as Washington Institute. Yes, that is very smart: it is supposed to make us not notice that it is an arm of the Zionist lobby. 2) The place is so desperate for token Arabs that they now bring Mubarak’s stooges…
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Kafataru’s son
Syrians have told me that the assassination of Syria’s Mufti’s son recently reminded them of the assassination of then Syria’s Mufti’s son (Kaftaru) in the late 1970s by Ikhwan.
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Soviet defectors
There is not one Soviet defector that I liked or admired or respected. They all were right-wing reactionaries, or seemed at least.
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Meet a Wahhabi liberal
“Al-Rashed, who is general manager of Al-Arabiya TV, which is partly owned by a different prominent member of the Saudi royal family, argued that the king’s decision had nothing to do with the ongoing revolutions in other Arab countries. He wrote:In …
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Nicholas Kristof
I have said before that liberal writers annoy me more on Israel than right-wing writers, for more than the one obvious reason (that they don’t sound as liberal when they talk about Israel). They sound like Saudi Wahhabi liberals in their contradi…
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Zionist-oriented art
Awards for Zionist-oriented art? It should be art showing massacres, incineration of residential areas, assassinations with F-16s, ethnic mass expulsions, historical fabrications and distortions, dumb Mossad plot, pride in racist pride, blata…
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Israeli win
The New York Times gives more prominence to a Nobel Prize winner from “Israel” than for winners from America. It knows its political priorities.
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Russia’s extensive contacts with Syria
In this article, Neil MacFarquhar talks at length about the extensive ties between Russia and the Syrian repressive regime. I don’t recall MacFarquhar writing an article about the more extensive relations between the US and the Mubarak repressive…
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
HRW and Amnesty International
Let me say this about the dishonest statement by HRW and Amnesty International. It typically refused to take responsibility for the dissemination of propaganda on behalf of the MB opposition in Syria. The statement did not mention what…
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Visiting Syrian refugees
A Syrian whose identity should be protected sent me this: ”My brother who is a physician went to Turkey this past weekend with 6 other Syrian doctors from Germany to Turkey where they visited the syrian refugees and brought with them 700 kilos wo…
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
The West is Sad
I have written before about An-Nahar: the right-wing, sectarian Christian, racist anti-Syrian, anti-Palestinian (people) newspaper of Lebanon. You may notice that I don’t write about it much as of late. Why should I? It has been dying a fast deat…
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad
Steve Job
For the real Steve Job, ”Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer” by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. Job and Gates are less innovators or scientists than promoters and showmen. We often confuse business acumen and …
Posted on October 6, 2011 by As'ad