Monday, August 14, 2017

The human rights poseur is at it again

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Kenneth Roth ‏ Verified account   @KenRoth     Aug 13 More Saudis should investigate whether their forces are using excessive force...

Corruption and the Syrian regime

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It is rather amazing that corruption of the Syrian armed forces increased during this on-going war.  I hear that Hizbullah sometimes appoin...

Wait: this human rights poseur has been saying all along that the Syrian regime never fights Al-Qa`idah?

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Kenneth Roth ‏ Verified account   @KenRoth     10h 10 hours ago More Favorite place to put Syrian displaced--Idlib province--is i...

In the very first paragraph of its report, HRW justifies Saudi regime crimes against civilians in Awamiyyah

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" Saudi security forces have surrounded and sealed off the predominantly Shia town of Awamiya in July 2017 as they  confronted an arme...

There is no way that the Saudi regime will allow Prince `Abdul-`Azizi bin Fahd to maintain his public dissent

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Prince `Abdul-`Aziz bin Fahd continues to challenge the King and his son Twitter.  I am told that he is writing from France and not from in...

U.S. Cable: Philippines has $1T untapped mineral wealth

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"Based on incomplete data and unconfirmed reports, the Philippines may have untapped mineral wealth worth between US$ 840 billion and...

A member of the Political Leadership of the Syrian National Coalition defects...back to the Syrian regime

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Bassam Al-Malik, who was a member of the political committee of the Syrian National Coalition and the PR head in Cairo defected back to the...

Yes, while the Saudi King is the idol of US liberals and conservatives.

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I think if the far right idolizes the Saudi King they would become mainstream for the US press. From WP: " Syria’s Assad has become an...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

You know who comes up with those silly gimmicks for Gulf rulers? US and EU PR firms

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Mark this: Richard Spencer (white supremacist leader) is a huge fan of the articles on ISIS by Graeme Wood in the Atlantic

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"Spencer began by complimenting my reporting for this magazine on the Islamic State. “Your articles on  isis  have been popular on the...

Liz Sly exploits the Nazi riot in Charlottesville for propaganda purposes

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Leave it to Liz Sly to bring the Syria story, and her propaganda effort on behalf of Syrian Jihadi rebels, into the racist riot in Charlott...

According to the Senate Democratic Leader: a Palestinian summer camp is posting an existential threat to Israel

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Read all about it.  A new threat to Israeli occupation and aggression.

Washington Post about Muslim refugees in Germany being anti-Semitic

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Look at this long story: the evidence for the claim about an anti-Semitic problem of the Syrian refugees is one person.  This is what is ca...

You know who annoys me the most in the US culture? 60s leftists (Todd Gitlin) who became reactionaries but still speak for 60s radicals

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It really repulses me that Todd Gitlin is still chosen by US media to speak on behalf of the left (because they know that he can use "...

John McCain has a strategy for Afghanistan and the US press is very impressed

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This is what is considered a strategy?  Every military strategy for John McCain (on every country on earth) only means: more US troops and ...

White Supremacy on the March

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It is not only the racism, anti-Semitism, and bigotry and now violence of the White Supremacists which are offensive, but also the rush of ...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Fatimah Ahmad Ibrahim is dead

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The great Sudanese communist struggler, Fatimah Ahmad Ibrahim, is dead.  She was the first elected women to parliament in the Arab world.  ...

A rule in the NYT: every Israeli crime, every repression, every massacre has to be justified in the same sentence

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" Challenged by hostile forces on most of its fronts , Israel is already pretty much walled in ."

In the New York Times, and in the Western press, this guy is considered an insightful foreign policy analyst

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I bet that commentaries in North Korean press are less childish and less dumb than Thomas Friedman's: " Instead we should be telli...

Sherif Mansour (on behalf of the Committee to Protect Some Journalists) in the New York Times

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" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has chosen some strange, decidedly undemocratic bedfellows and sent a worrying messa...

An Israeli prison called Gaza

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" It is a cliche to call Gaza an open-air prison, but to many people it feels not only as if there is no way out, but also that the wa...

This is the vision of Muhammad bin Salman (those posts are not funded by Gulf embassies in DC)

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" Among those condemned to death are Mujtaba’a al-Sweikat, who, after  attending pro-democracy protests  inspired by the Arab Spring i...

This view is rarely represented in reports by Western correspondents in Beirut

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" “Israel caricatures Hizbullah as a terrorist organisation,” says Rifaat Nasrallah, the Christian militia’s leader (and no relation o...

The Crown Prince of Jordan: another brilliant military mind

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Who hates Arabs more: a discussion Haaretz

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From Eyal: "Yossi Werter, a chief political columnist for Ha'aretz, ridicules Yair  Lapid for his argument in favor of the the Ira...

Lebanese village of Shaqra targeted by Israel for destruction

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"I myself have visited Shaqra several times over the past few years and have failed to trip over any rocket launchers, although I hav...

Israeli weapons company receives funding from the EU

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"The European Union is giving millions of dollars of “research” funding to a company that is helping Israel evade an international ban...

Saudi regime are killing Saudi citizens, with help from the U.S. & Canada

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"Canada is the second largest supplier of weapons to Saudi Arabia, the first being the United States. The tragedy that is befalling Aw...

A foreign government (Israel, naturally) certifies that Gen. McMaster is ideologically qualified for his White House job

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""Senior Israeli defense officials told Haaretz on Saturday that the allegations against McMaster concerning Israel are false and...

I just wonder: do sermons in Churches and synagogues are equally monitored in Switzerland

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It is clear that this Muslim cleric is a kook but so are many priests, rabbis, ministers, and monks.  If we apply the rational and non-vio...

The Emperor, bragging

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"He added, "We have many options ..this is our neighbour. We are all over the world and we have troops all over the world in plac...

Peter Sluglett on Hanna Batatu

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Peter Sluglett died.  I knew him back in the early 1990s when he spent time in DC.  We talked a lot then about Iraq and Arab politics. But ...
Friday, August 11, 2017

It is getting ugly within the Saudi royal family

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Prince `Abdul-`Aziz bin Fahd seems to be the one leading the opposition within the royal family although Prince Ahmad is likely to be the...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

From Khalidalbaih, the Sudanese cartoonist

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ود البيه ‏   @khalidalbaih     1h 1 hour ago More # Khartoon - Watch me Nuke - the #nuclear beef between US and #northkorea ...

What US media does not cover: from Awwamiyyah?

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From Awwamiyyah: Saudi regime forces calling Shi`ites " dogs ".

This is how Daily Star of Lebanon reports about Saudi regime crimes in Awwamiyyah

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"Saudi forces restore order in restive eastern district "

After this, how can you ever doubt the commitment of Gulf regimes to liberate Palestine?

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Who killed Ghassan Kanafani?

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I don't have time to translate but here is my case in Arabic regarding "Who killed Ghassan Kanafani ".

What is more corrupt than Israeli prime ministers and Gulf procurement committees?

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DC think tanks.  What a corrupt scene it is.  All DC think tanks should have--for humor purposes--the banner of "No Strings Attached...

UAE and the funding of the Middle East Institute

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In the past, the Middle East Institute represented the bastion of Arabist influence and the desire by retired American diplomats and govern...

The Logic of US media on North Korea

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Trump threatened North Korea with a nuclear holocaust, and his Secretary of Defense (the rational member of the team) threatened "the ...
Wednesday, August 09, 2017

US Secretary of Defense threatens North Korea with the "destruction of its people"?

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Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Fire and fury

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Fire and Fury  is a miniatures wargame about the  American Civil War . 

U.S. signed a nuke deal with N Korea; then violated it

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"In 1994, the Clinton administration and North Korea signed an Agreed Framework that froze Pyongyang’s nuclear programme and aimed to ...

Who is fighting in Yemen

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""Most regular troops employed by the Saudi coalition in Yemen are also foreigners, according to reports. In 2015, officials in Y...