Archive for April 9, 2012
Warning: this is too funny
Achievements of `Umar Sulayman in 30 seconds only. (thanks Hossam)
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
Female bodies, faces, and personalities
“The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at (and marketed to) us, and used to define and control us. The Conversation about women happens everywhere, publicly and privately. We are described and d…
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
Jim Muir does not watch Syrian TV
I heard Jim Muir on the BBC the other day: he said that if you watch Syrian TV, you would think that all is well in Syria. It is certain that Muir has not watched Syrian regime TV in months. It does not in any way send that message: it cove…
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
Sudanese communists
“Secretary-General of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) Muhammad Ibrahim Nugud passed away in London two weeks ago, where he was being treated for brain cancer. After more than 40 years at the helm of one of the oldest Communist parties in the M…
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
Mike Wallace
I never met the man. He played a role in promoting a sensational brand of ambush journalism, which went after smaller crooks. Such courage was not directed against tobacco companies or the US government, for example. Yet, he was less …
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
US NGOs in Egypt: democracy promotion?
“Back in the day, the CIA secretly funded, sometimes created, and often ran supposedly private, nongovernmental organizations to make propaganda and provide cover for covert operations all over the world. The compromised groups included the Congress fo…
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
Economic policies of the Ikhwan
“”He speaks about social justice from his own perspective “Neoliberal policies” and the role of the private sector in infrastructure. “I feel that I am listening to a member in Gamal Mubarak’s policies committee””"
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
Did Syrian Salafis kill a Syrian Army defector because he criticized them
Here is the story. (thanks Hicham)
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
Hillary praises reforms in the UAE
“The United Arab Emirates on Monday detained six Islamist activists whose citizenship was revoked last year after they demanded political reform in the Gulf Arab state, their lawyer said.”
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
the poor in the US
“”The poor people who were dropped from cash assistance here, mostly single mothers, talk with surprising openness about the desperate, and sometimes illegal, ways they make ends meet. They have sold food stamps, sold blood, skipped meals, shoplifted, …
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
"appropriate methods had been used to subdue the man who died"
“Each prisoner was forced to lie face down on the floor of the aircraft, and those who “refused to adopt the required position” were forced to the floor and knelt upon. One man who slipped out of his thumb restraint and flailed his arms around wa…
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
This is supposed to be a liberal Saudi princess
“”This is why I am against women driving until we are educated enough and until we have the necessary laws to protect us from such madness”". (thanks Mohammad)
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
The candidate of Israel in Egypt
“In the controversial and devastating Israeli war on Gaza, Israeli officials are believed to have relied on intelligence and targeting information from Suleiman, who previously pledged to make sure that an election in the strip would never take place.”
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
Western-funded NGOs really heart Western occupation
“But now, with U.S. officials laying plans to remove most troops in two years, the Afghan government and other institutions appear to be adjusting their positions on women’s rights to accommodate conservative factions. Restrictions on women have made a…
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
US continues to support democracy in Bahrain
“By nightfall June 3, what began as an officer’s move-in bash at her new apartment in Bahrain’s Floating City was getting out of hand. Partiers had been drinking all day Friday. And the party had spilled from her patio onto rafts in the canal along…
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
US propaganda on Russia
Look at the headline and look at the picture. ”White ribbons fill Red Square as Russian officials allow protest”. The square clearly does not look filled.
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
Zionist endorsement of `Umar Sulayman
“Ben-Eliezer told Army Radio on Monday that former strongman Suleiman views relations with Israel as a strategic “cornerstone.”"
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
Look how they invent news in Hariri/Saudi/Kuwaiti media
This is from the sectarian Christian, right-wing, racist anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people) An-Nahar’s English website. The story “reported” is attributed to Johny Abdu (a man who has been on Hariri payroll for years and a man whose …
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
Ecological Orientalism in the Economist
“The importance of desert geography is another explanation for Arab autocracy. In a 2010 paper Stephen Haber of Stanford University and Victor Menaldo of the University of Washington argue that desert institutions inhibit democracy. Moderate rainfall b…
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad
House of Saud’s media
Don’t you love how they pick what they want to cover of the news? All Saudi media are highlighting and promoting the statement by lousy `Izzat Ad-Duri, but they chose to not cover his anti-American statements. Here is the mouthpiece of Prin…
Posted on April 9, 2012 by As'ad