Archive for October 27, 2011
Hasan Nasrallah’s TV Interview
My latest blog post for Al-Akhbar English: ”Hasan Nasrallah’s TV Interview.”
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
Global corporate control
“They discovered that global corporate control has a distinct bow-tie shape, with a dominant core of 147 firms radiating out from the middle. Each of these 147 own interlocking stakes of one another and together they control 40% of the wealth in the ne…
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
Global corporate control
“They discovered that global corporate control has a distinct bow-tie shape, with a dominant core of 147 firms radiating out from the middle. Each of these 147 own interlocking stakes of one another and together they control 40% of the wealth in the ne…
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
Nada Bakri, relax
Whenever there is a display of support for the lousy Syrian regime, New York Times reporter feel obligated to explain it away or to minimize it. Nada Bakri does that today: ”With most foreign journalists barred from Syria and the government…
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
Nada Bakri, relax
Whenever there is a display of support for the lousy Syrian regime, New York Times reporter feel obligated to explain it away or to minimize it. Nada Bakri does that today: ”With most foreign journalists barred from Syria and the government…
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
Hamas and Hizbullah at the House of Saud
Hizbullah sent a delegation to the Saudi Embassy in Beirut to offer condolences over the death of Prince Sultan bin Bribes. Khalid Mish`al of Hamas flew to Saudi Arabia to personally offer condolences. It is not clear whether a joint delega…
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
Saudi cleric rewards
“A prominent Saudi cleric has offered to pay $100,000 to any Palestinian who kidnaps an Israeli soldier, according to his Facebook page.” (thanks Nir)
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
King PlayStation Brags
“Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday said his kingdom was Israel’s last ally in the region and warned that Egypt may dissolve its peace treaty with Tel Aviv. ”We are actually the last man [i.e. clown] standing with our relationship with Israel,” the…
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
Israeli soldiers doing what they do best: killing children
All that you have done to our people is registered in notebooks. ”Shortly after noon on Wednesday, a four-year-old Palestinian girl named Asil Arara was shot in the neck by Israeli troops near her village of Anata, northeast of Jerusalem. A PNN r…
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
Tunisian politics
Read this interview with a Tunisian labor activist.
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
Tunisian politics
Read this interview with a Tunisian labor activist.
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
Here is another plausible plot for you
So there is a new plot. Apparently the Iranian-American car salesman got in touch with a Mexican drug cartel to contact Iraqi Ba`thists to overthrow the government, and then fly back to DC to kill the Saudi ambassador in DC. Read all about …
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
NATO: from protecting civilians to propping up a regime
This is quite something. The NATO has been bombing the hell out of Libya all in the name of “protecting civilians” from Qadhdhafi although the there may be evidence that the NATO rebels, and their mercenary armies, may have caused the worst destr…
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
"Arab spring"
That lousy name should not be used to refer to Arab uprisings. How can it be a spring when I wake up daily to news of Syrians and Yemenis being killed by the regime on a daily bases?
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
The political thought of Rashid Ghannushi
I am obligated now to going back and re-reading his writings. Yesterday, I was reading his Al-Huriyyat Al-`Ammah fi Ad-Dawlah Al-Islamiyyah (Public Freedoms in the Islamic State). I trust his democratic credentials and impulses as much as G…
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
Alan Dershowitz stumbles on a token Arab to sign on to his fanatic Likudnik positions
You read it right. This fanatic American Zionist, Alan Dershowitz, who has never encountered an Israeli war crime that he could not endorse, stumbles on a Lebanese guy to sign on to his outrageously anti-Palestinian positions. The Lebanese,…
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad
Egyptian uprising apolitical
During my trip to the ASA Convention, I caught a glimpse of Thomas Friedman on HBO’s Bill Maher show. 1) His attempt of sounding folksy is so annoying. He also thinks he is funny and effective when he keeps saying: OK. OK. OK? 2) He s…
Posted on October 27, 2011 by As'ad