The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

A source on politics, war, the Middle East, Arabic poetry, and art.

Monday, February 24, 2014

Beirut: for the rich only

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"A recent study on property prices produced by the real estate advisory agency, RAMCO, shows the average price of apartments in Beirut...

the right to occupy everywhere

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" "We are here with a simple and clear message -- the Jordan Valley is Israeli," Sa'ar said." "Levin said Isra...

Wecome the Gas Princess: heroine of Western media

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"Ukrainians remember that in the 1990s, before the braids, Tymoshenko was a shrewd businesswoman with dark hair and a dark side: tough...

EU is Apartheid regime's largest trading partner

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"But EU diplomats say business with firms operating in the settlements, such as skincare company Ahava, represent less than 1 percent ...

It is not that outrageous given the Zionist claims on Palestine

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"Muslim groups are demanding Spanish citizenship for potentially millions of descendants of Muslims who were expelled from Spain durin...

images from Venezuela

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"This article provides graphic evidence of how some postings on social and other media have reproduced images culled from elsewhere an...

US expenditure per soldier per year in Iraq

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"UN peacekeeping operations themselves do add around $8 billion a year on top of the base budget (of which the U.S. provides around $2...

Sleazy media of Saudi princes

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This is one of the top news stories on the site of Al-Arabiyya (the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law): "Prince Salman jo...

Exclusive. This is the amazing device invented by Sisi intelligence service which can cure AIDS and C Virus

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Prince Muhammad bin Fahds made a contribution to Prince Muhammad bin Fahd--kid you not

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  It says that Prince Muhammad Bin Fahd made a 15 million Saudi Riyal contribution to the Foundation of Muhammad bin Fahd. The Prince th...

If Lebanese Army soldiers train by eating snakes, Saudi speical forces train by eating rabbits. Kid you not.

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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Samples from the sleazy media of Saudi princes: Al-Arabiyya again

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The most widely read article on the website of the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law has this headline:  "That is how I m...

When a Muslim man is lynched in CAR, it is not a story with a headline in US media

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  "A group of soldiers in the Central African Republic lynched a man they suspected was a rebel minutes after hearing the new preside...

a peaceful "revolution"

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“We will go with weapons,” said the protester, who leads one of the more militant groups in the square. “I swear it .”

Hero of Western governments

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"Oleh Tiahnybok Tiahnybok is the head of the nationalist Svoboda party. Yanukovych did not offer him a position in the government in J...

A conversation between Saudi King and Muhammad bin Nayif: an actual transcript

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An actual transcript from 2009 from the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law, Al-Arabiyya (my translation): "Prince Mu...

Garrick Utley died: a model foreign correspondent

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I should not always generalize. The US has had its share of (rare) model foreign correspondents.  Utley was one of those.  His coverage of...

leakers

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How come leakers are heroic only when they leak information about governments that are not aligned with the US/Israel?  And how come spies ...

Libyan police arrested six Qataris at Benghazi airport on Saturday as they tried to board a plane to Turkey using forged Libyan passports

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"Libyan police arrested six Qataris at Benghazi airport on Saturday as they tried to board a plane to Turkey using forged Libyan passp...

Repression that is consistent with Western policies

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"Indeed, the Bahraini government, which hosts the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet and which has been seeking to turn the protests s...

US interferences in Venezuela

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"March 28, 2008: The cable reports on a meeting between U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D – OR) and López, noting that "The Senator and h...

Breaking news: Sisi Military command has found or will soon find....

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"cures for AIDS, c virus, and swine flu ".  Egyptian media are recommending Dr. Sisi for the Nobel Prize in medicine.

Muhammad bin Nayif and commissions on arms purchases

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Mujtahid reports that Muhammad bin Nayif is now in the business of arms contract.  He may net "more than 25 billion Saudi riyals ...

UAE money and Sisi republic luxury

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"In mid-February the Egypt subsidiary of the UAE-based Emmar signed a protocol with the Egyptian Defense Ministry which clears the way...

Why won't America ratify the UN convention on children's rights?

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"This year the spotlight was on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has been adopted by every country apart from Somalia,...

The Kingdom of horrors continues to fight magic, sorcery, and political dissent: Western leaders bow down in awe

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"The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) was praised for its recent decision to allocate a team to co...

Journalism of An-Nahar newspaper of Lebanon

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From "Ibn Rushd":  "Nahar publishes a fake scoop from France Dimanche, which is a cheap tabloid, much worse that The Nationa...

What is billed as "19 Stunning Pictures Of An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Wedding"

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  Rouba sent me this link and wrote: "Thought you might want to have a look at the comments and title on huffington post regarding ph...

sexually abusing cows: in the US

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I saw this story on Huffington Post and thought: can you imagine if this happened in a developing country? The story would have been on th...

The Improbability Principle

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" You’re pretty harsh with people who believe that there’s some kind of magic or divine intervention that makes these coincidences hap...

Exclusive for the New York Times: anything related to Israel

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Any article any reference to Israel is fit to print in the New York Times. Look at this boring and lame article . This is a guy wrote an ar...

Western media and governments

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It is fair to say that when it comes to foreign policy, almost all mainstream Western media serve as government media.  I mean, if they dis...

Barrel Bombs and Western media

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Of course, barrel bombs are despicable weapons that the lousy Syrian regime never dared use them against the Israeli occupiers of Syrian la...

Tymoshenko and Western media coverage

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Western governments dare to feign outrage at Russian interferences in the affairs of its neighbor, Ukraine. Yet, what Western governments s...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

On Sex Panic in Lebanon

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I normally agree with Comrade Maya but in this article I disagree with her in the first section (but I agree in the two other sections).  ...

How come those anti-Semitic attacks are not covered in US media?

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"One of Ukraine’s Chief Rabbis, Moshe Reuven Asman, urged Jews to leave capital city Kiev following a reported anti-Semitic attack on ...

Documentation methos by Reuters: only for journalism students around the world

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From Krim:  ""Assad is now benefiting from the deployment by Tehran of hundreds more military specialists to Syria, according to ...

Get out: a Saudi prince is visting

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"Tourists looking forward to a dream holiday in the Maldives have had to change their plans after a Saudi prince reportedly booked out...

Dalai Lama changed his mind about capitalism after meeting the president of AEI--kid you not

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" Now, he added, “I develop more respect for capitalism .’’"  But this is what I don't understand: Dalai Lama believes that s...

Meet this Saudi liberal (a former volunteer in the Bin Laden movement in Afghanistan)

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According to Jamal Khashuqji , the well-known Saudi Wahhabi "liberal", the Jihad in Afghanistan was nice and dandy until the Egyp...

The Syrian (oppsition) dictator

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The hope of the Western governments and Western media, General Doctor Engineer Musician Lawyer acrobat, Salim Idriss, calls Ahmad Jabra a ...

Best consequence of Arab uprising

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The best consequence of Arab uprisings is the dramatic decline in the appeal of democracy and the ballot box (given their easy manipulation...

Failed coup in Libya

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How come the failed coup by Khalifah Haftar in Libya barely got any mention in the Western press? Is it because he is one of the closest al...

When the US overthrows democratic government

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"When is it considered legitimate to try and overthrow a democratically-elected government? In Washington, the answer has always been ...

American anti-Asian racism

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"Caricature, the meat of stereotype, works best when loosely rooted in distortions of truth; exaggerated appearance, for instance, ser...
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