Archive for November 29, 2011
Flash: Syrian regime goons storm into the home of Khalid Bikdash’s daughter
Daughter of Syrian communist leader, Khaild Bakdash, has just informed me that:”اليوم في اليل 10 عناصر مخابرات داهموا بيتي بحثا عن مجرم هكذا قالوا فتشوا كل شيءلدي الان شعور ان…
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Ban Ki-moon
This guy issued an official statement to protest the firing of a rocket on Israel from South Lebanon. All the bombings by Israel don’t warrant special statements from him, with the exception of those typical (US government-generated) statements about t…
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
A report from a protester in Homs
I asked a protester in Homs with whom I communicate to describe life in Homs: ”A year ago Homs used to be a city with a large town charm. Today everyone tries to get home by 5 o’clock. During the day things go on as normal, except that it’s n…
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Is the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 not a factor in anymore?
“Elections in Iraq in 2005 helped ignite a civil war there…” Really? And the American invasion and occupation is irrelevant?
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
sectarianism
Of all my contacts in Bahrain, I don’t know the sectarian affiliation of any of them. Not one.
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Royal Twitter
Prince `Abdul-`Aziz bin Fahd on Twitter. (thanks “Ibn Rushd”)
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Lies of the Ikhwan opposition in Syria
I have posted below about fake footage on the side of the regime. Here is the other side. Raed sent me this: ”I don’t know whether you have spoken about this. There seem to be some crude video fabrications of atrocities by the sy…
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
I am not a racist, damn it
“This weekend, however, it seems ever more likely that a court will have to adjudicate between the historian Niall Ferguson and writer Pankaj Mishra over Ferguson’s claim that he had been accused of being a “racist”.Indeed, not since VS Naipaul and Pau…
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
The anti-`Alawite bigotry of An-Nahar
A Syrian dissident website responds to a secret `Alawite plot scenario. (thanks Hossan)
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Zionists at AUB
An American who spoke at AUB recently sent me this (I cite with his permission but I removed specific references): ”Last week, I gave a lecture at AUB. I talked the usual shit about the idiocy of various Zionist discourses. During the Q & A…
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Opposition in Bahrain
A source sent me this: “I completely agree with your correspondent’s comments and criticism about the political societies in Bahrain. However, s/he is wrong in calling the February 14 youth movement secular. It is true that they don’t call for a religi…
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Don’t insult officials in Qatar
“DOHA: Law-enforcement agencies have referred a person to the public prosecution for legal action after he was alleged to have insulted a senior diplomat of the rank of ambassador of a country here on the Facebook.” (thanks Mysa)
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Syrian regime propaganda
I was waiting to verify this before I post. It is now proven: some of the propaganda footage presented in the press conference by Walid Mu`allim yesterday is from Lebanon and not from Syria. New TV has just aired a report to that effect. &n…
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Reform in Bahrain: finally
From Angry Arab’s chief Bahrain correspondent: ”Reforms in Bahrain have began. The torturer chief of Bahrain’s National Security Agency (from the royal family) was removed from his position and promoted to the King’s national security advisor wit…
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Arab revolts: then and now
Comrade Joseph on Arab uprisings.
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Islamists flirt with the US
The head of the Moroccan royal Islamists maintains that there is a “philosophical” dimension to the relationship with the US and Europe.
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
It is news when Israel does it to white people
“Israel’s Defense Ministry apologized Monday for the treatment of a pregnant American news photographer who said she was strip searched and humiliated by Israeli soldiers during a security check.Lynsey Addario, who was on assignment for the New York …
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Netyanyahu wants to be intimate
“Netanyahu: Israel won’t have the same ‘intimacy’ it had with past Egypt regimes”
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
Injustice in the Zionist entity
“Virtually all – 99.74 percent, to be exact – of cases heard by the military courts in the territories end in a conviction, according to data in the military courts’ annual report, which has been obtained by Haaretz.”
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad
"Egypt imports 21 tons of tear gas from the US, port staff refuses to sign for it"
“The arrival of 7 and half tons of tear gas to Egypt’s Suez port created conflict after the responsible officials at the port refused to sign and accept it for fear it would be used to crackdown on Egyptian protesters.Local news sites published docum…
Posted on November 29, 2011 by As'ad