Archive for December 27, 2011
Israel’s dirty bombs in Sudan
Are you aware that Israel has bombed Sudan at least four times in the last few years? And not a word from the lousy Sudanese dictator who is now favored by the West. (thanks Steve)
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
Interpreters of Occupation
These are the only Iraqis that Western media express sympathy for.
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
This is reform in Saudi Arabia–according to the Western press
“Women in Saudi Arabia won a small but promising victory this year. No, they aren’t being allowed to drive; that’s still forbidden. Most of the time, they still can’t work, travel or even open bank accounts without the approval of a male guardian. But …
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
Grand and glorious collaboration
“The reconfiguration was not restricted to the Ramallah muqata alone. The PA is now redesigning its administrative buildings throughout the West Bank and pursuing a much broader spatial transformation. As Israel solidified a system of fragmented Palest…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
What the Western press does not covered about the Zionist usurping entity
“A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious war. Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader who is afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls school for fear of u…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
The orphaned uprisings
The Bahraini and Saudi uprising (as limited as the one in Saudi Arabia has been) are the orphaned uprisings in the Arab world. They are the lest covered uprising. They are totally ignored in the Arabic press and their Youtube footage are la…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
Lebanese guests on Syrian regime TV
There has been an array of Lebanese guests on Syrian regime TV. They tend to me the most vulgar and crude propagandists of the Syrian regime. Their racism and disregard for Syrian lives are not in any way less than the racism of March 14 Ha…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
Sexiness or non-sexisness of the Syrian uprising
A Syrian opposition supporter sent me this (he wishes to remain anonymous): ”The reason the people did not react with the Syrian revolution in the same way they did with Egypt and Tunisia is not related to NATO. The reader assumes reading y…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
Not in the US press: US attacks the Yemeni…protesters
The Saudi newspaper, Al-Watan, mouthpiece of Prince Khalid Al-Faysal, cites the US ambassador in Yemen in attacking the Yemeni protesters describing them as non-peaceful. Non-peaceful? Is that a condition for the US in Syria or in Iran? The…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
US and its favored dictators
“The United States has found itself in a sometimes awkward position as the unrest in the Arab world has swept through Yemen. The administration conducts extensive counterterrorism operations with the Saleh government on suspected Qaeda cells. It was un…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
Sexy uprising II
Comrade Laleh reminded me that I did not continue with my post about sexy uprisings–so to speak. Yemen was ignored because Arab media are the ones who have played a part in whipping up support for Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings. But I would arg…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
Shari`ah is coming; Shari`ah is coming–to a theater next to you
“Former “Saturday Night Live” actress Victoria Jackson, working on confidential information she as a web talk show host has special clearance to obtain, has claimed that the United States is being overtaken by radical Muslims bent on bringing…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
Ron Paul
This should be made clear. Ron Paul should not be supported by Arabs or by supporters of the Palestinians. He may have said things against Israel (although his spokesperson yesterday asserted to the New York Times that he is a “friend” of Israel)…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
Thus spoke Al-`Ar`ur
Shaykh `Adnan Al-`Ar`ur (the kooky Syrian cleric based in Saudi Arabia and who commands “some” support among “some” of the protesters in Syria–this is a question for you: who is more known in Syria? `Ar`ur or Gene Sharp?) here threatens to “cut off” t…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
The Tunisian president
My latest blog spot for Al-Akhbar English on the Tunisian president.
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
Sexy uprisings
I must say that I have been thinking as to why the Yemeni and Syrian and Libyan and Bahraini uprisings did not get the wide Arab support that the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings received. There is very little wide Arab youth support for the Arab …
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
Gene Sharp in Syria
I really don’t hear anymore the notion of peaceful, non-violent uprising in Syria anymore…except in Hariri and Saudi media. Here is a description of Homs in the New York Times today: ”They also spoke of an intensifying war in some neighbo…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
Arab monitor on Al-Arabiyya
Yesterday, the news station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law, Al-Arabiyya was blasting the news non-stop. It said that an Arab monitor appeared via phone on Al-Arabiyya and blasted the lousy Syrian regime. And they kept airing the report in which th…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad
A hint to Western reporters in the Middle East
If a man approaches you and introduces himself to you as a “security official in Hizbullah”, it is certain that he is not in any way affiliated with the security apparatus of Hizbullah.
Posted on December 27, 2011 by As'ad