Archive for April 24, 2012
RT
“The most insidious aspect of Assange’s show is not what is in it, but what isn’t. Russia Today – now styled RT – is state-owned and Kremlin-controlled. It is remarkable for how little reporting it devotes to what is going on inside Russia today. T…
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Tweets
This Arabic website is collecting my Arabic tweets, not that you care, damn it.
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
"I am not here to defend the US"
This is the most oft-cited sentence on Aljazeera. Even on debate shows where they invite people of different points of view, the person who is supposed to represent a point of view that is congruent with US policies, you hear this sentence: “I am not h…
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Now Bernard Lewis wants you to believe that he opposed the invasion of Iraq
“”That was the way to do it,” he says. “Simply to invade was the wrong way to do it, and I thought so and said so at the time.” Why didn’t he speak out before the invasion? “I didn’t feel at that crucial moment that it was right to take a public stance…
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
By the way, you are supposed to be impressed
“In Notes on a Century, he trades gossip with Golda Meir; cracks wise about the Marx Brothers with the shah of Iran; stays up late chatting with King Hussein of Jordan; spends time in a tent with Qaddafi; speaks on “friendly, personal terms” with …
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Walid Jumblat
After months of groveling and begging, after months of sending long telegrams on the occasions of the death of every Saudi prince or his entourage, Walid Jumblat was today allowed to meet with Saud Al-Faysal. He took his son, Taymur, with him. &n…
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Leave it to this Zionist poseur to put things in hypocritical propaganda perspective
“At a ceremony at Washington’s Holocaust museum, Wiesel compared Assad and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the villains who perpetrated the murder of millions of innocent civilians during World War II and asked why America and the internationa…
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
New York Times correction
“Correction: April 23, 2012 An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Israel occupies both the West Bank and Gaza.”So the people of Gaza can import what they wish and children can swim in the sea? Who is preventing them? China?
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Egyptian Mubarak Mufti
The clown who doubles as Egypt’s Mubarak-appointed Mufti, is hated in Egypt. The newly elected parliament called for his ouster. He held a press conference to defend himself. The controversy started when he “accepted” an invitation fr…
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Tombs of terrorists in Israel
“Among the slogans, vandals write “Zionism is the original sin, Zionists are wretched” and “Gunter Grass was right.”" (thanks John)
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Against Prince Nayif
Saudi signed a petition against Crown Prince Nayif.
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Exposing corruption in Jordan
A Jordanian journalist exposed corruption in Jordan, so he was arrested by the royal government and accused of “opposing the system of government.” In other news, Hillary and Obama praised reforms in Jordan. This, of course, will not make i…
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Bahraini royal police on high alert
Bahraini youth challenge the government.
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Chants against the House of Saud in Cairo
Those are some of the chants in Cairo today against the Saudi Embassy:اقتل واضرب فينا بكره الثورة في المدينةاللي بيجلد مصريين وبيقتل في البحرين بكره يشرف في الزنازينال س…
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
British Empire
“Caroline Elkins, a professor at Harvard, spent nearly 10 years compiling the evidence contained in her book Britain’s Gulag. Elkins reveals that the British detained not 80,000 Kikuyu, as the official histories maintain, but almost the entire popul…
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Rap against Orientalism from Amman
This is a good Orientalism from a new rap band in Amman, Jordan. (thanks Yasmine)
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Armenian Genocide
How little attention there is in the world for the Turkish genocide of Armenians. How little coverage it has received, in the East and in the West.
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Collaboration Puppet versus Collaboration Puppet
“Communication channels between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad are completely cut off, Al Quds Al Arabi reported on Sunday in London. According to the report, the two top Palestinian officials cut all forms of commu…
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
David Kirkpatrick shows his ignorance of Egypt, proudly
“former President Jimmy Carter, is something close to a national hero in Egypt for his role brokering the 1979 Camp David peace accords.” (thanks Youssef)
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad
Islamist extremists
“Particularly worrying is the growing involvement of Islamist extremists, who profit both from experience in Iraq and supply lines to Iraq’s lawless Sunni regions. They had initially been marginal to Syria’s uprising, but locals now echo American d…
Posted on April 24, 2012 by As'ad