The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

This blog has largely migrated to Twitter. You may catch me there @asadabukhalil 

My weekly article for Al-Akhbar: "Will US global hegemony last for anther century "? (A critical review of Michael Beckley'...

My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: "Eulogy of Dar As-Sayyad: End of Traditional Media ?"

My weekly article for Al-Akhbar: "US Secret Wars against Communism: how the regime in Poland Collapsed ".

 My new article for Consortium news on The New Congress and Palestine .

My article in Consortium News about "Why the US-Saudi Crisis will Pass "

My weekly article for Al-Akhbar: "The Khashoggi Affair: Between the Western and Arab Media ".

Flash. I am receiving information from Riyadh that people are hearing military jets flying over. Anybody knows about that? يصلني من الرياض ...

My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: "How will MbS rule "?

Lebanon in US action movies: Beirut starring Jon Hamm By As`ad AbuKhalil Lebanon often provided a venue for American and Weste...

My interview from yesterday on the Khashoggi affair with Real News:

My weekly article n Al-Akhbar: "Future of Saudi-US Relations and the Fate of Muhammad bin Salman ".

My talk in Berkeley from two weeks ago.

watch here

My article for Consortium News: "The Strange Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi ".

It is official .

My weekly article for Al-Akhbar: "The (Un)Happy Journey of Jamal Khashoggi: Will Muhammad bin Salman stay in power ?"

I spoke about the Khasshoggi affair with Dennis Bernstein at KPFA yesterday.  ( Minute 19:00 ).

My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: "A History of the American "peace process": On "Preventing Palestine", Part II &qu...

My take on Seth Anziska's new book, "Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo " (just published by P...

“For three years, a website called  Canary Mission  has spread fear among undergraduate activists, posting more than a thousand political ...

“MI5 has attempted to grant legal immunity for its agents to participate in murder, torture, sexual assaults and other criminality, a trib...

“In the context of the stated aims of the DARPA program, it is our opinion that the knowledge to be gained from this program appears very ...

I want to say this publicly: there are several Saudi men and women I know who have been seeking political asylum in Europe and North Amer...

“The quality of justice behind the clerks’ closed doors can depend on where the hearing is held, who you know, or the color of your skin, ...

"They're part of a Bedouin tribe that was  displaced from the desert in Israel  many decades ago, and they relocated here in the e...

This is by far my favorite song by Aznavour.  But I detested him at the personal level.  Despite his popularity in the Arab world and the...

My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: "From the history of the American "peace process": On Preventing Palestine ", Part I.

“The brothel empire was always one step ahead of the law. Last week, prosecutors disclosed why: They said the brothels were run by a retir...

Meanwhile, Asharq al-Awssat newspaper quoted security sources and other extremist groups in Pakistan as saying that  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...

My weekly article for Al-Akhbar: "Bob Woodward versus Donald Trump: the media of the invisible State ".

" The 1993 Oslo Accords, in contrast, made no mention of that right whatsoever, let alone of “independence” or “liberation.” 60   Inst...

My article for Consortium News on Yasser Arafat's disastrous path of leadership.

"On Tuesday morning, September 11, while Israel was celebrating the Jewish New Year, the Israeli police raided the home of Raja Eghba...

My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: "The American Crisis of Governance: Will Trump Stay as President "?

“A US Border Patrol agent was arrested on Saturday on the suspicion that he killed four women and abducted a fifth, who escaped .”

“The document further states that “Manafort coordinated privately with a senior Israeli government official to issue a written statement” ...

You can listen to my comments on John McCain on Consortium Podcast here.

My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: "Bashir Gemayyel and the (Stripped) Rights of Christians ".

By far, my favorite scene of Jon Hamm’s movie, Beirut: Camels on the beaches of Beirut. Some Israeli assistant director must have come up w...

The "resistance" official in the White House: There is a historical precedence. There was another "resistance" in the...

My article for Consortium News on McCain and the Middle East .