The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

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

Sunday, August 19, 2007

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"Two and a half years after Bush pledged in his second inaugural address to spread democracy around the world, the grand project has bo...

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"Israel yesterday said it planned to turn back refugees arriving from Sudan's war-torn Darfur area"

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I read the book Poems of Guantanamo , edited by Marc Falkoff. I am afraid I was not impressed with the poems, although you can better judge ...

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Grand (not at all) Ayatullah Sistani, the pillar of US occupation in Iraq, expressed his thoughts on the Maliki government. He said: "...

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The town of Ghazir put a statue of Ernest Renan in its square. An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, anti-Palestinian (people), an...

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You know me. I don't like flags but for the Palestinians, I make exceptions. This was taken during a demonstration in Khalil. (Reuters...

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Al-Akhbar newspaper is bragging that the Lebanese Army is now bombing the Nahr Al-Barid camp from the air.

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52% of Lebanese oppose the intervention of clerics in political affairs.

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When Lebanese politicians and clerics defend House of Saud.

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In the introduction to Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized , Jean-Paul Sartre said: "Thus oppression justifies itself th...

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Please dry your tears: " MEMRI in Finanznot" (thanks Norbert)

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Eastern Orientalism. It is most dangerous to think of Orientalism as a mere Western phenomenon. To understand Orientalism and its impact,...

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"Sewall can say what the generals who devised the manual cannot. She addresses the concern that the manual is nothing more than a “mark...

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"However, in her review of four books on terrorism, especially Talal Asad’s “On Suicide Bombing” (July 29), she claims a moral distinct...

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You know the Lebanese, Elie Nahas, who has been accused of running a prostitution ring in France, is a famous Lebanese. His modeling agency...

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"You see, I have a simple view about both Arab-Israeli peace-making and Iraqi surge- making". No, I see that you have a simple, ...

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Shame on New TV. Today, New TV started the newscast with a "report" based on the latest issue of the magazine (EIR) of kooky Lynd...

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I love the methods and logic of US media when it comes to concocting evidence of Iraqi support for the occupation of their country. This is...

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Yesterday, LBC-TV reported that the Lebanese Army has made "noticeable" (malhudh) progress in Nahr Al-Barid. Today, New TV report...
Saturday, August 18, 2007

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"...and I asked Abed, my driver, to head south.."

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"Senior military commanders have told the Government that Britain can achieve "nothing more" in south-east Iraq, and that the...

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" It was the powerful Iraq that provided the threat then, and the weakened, chaotic Iraq that is threatening now. Jordan has a permanen...

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" Protesters held signs reading "No to settlement products" and "Stop the Israel-EU Association Agreement.""

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Did I not tell you that the Syrian government will backtrack from the stance of Faruq Ash-Shar` toward the Saudi government? A Syrian offic...

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The most articulate person in the world is the Aljazeera's Cairo analyst of the Egyptian stock market, `Adil Muhsin. The man can talk n...

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I swear. I saw a segment on AlJazeera on the new play by the talentless Mansur Rahbani, and it was so embarrassingly bad. It looks like a ...

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"The war of 100 days and more against radical Palestinians in the Nahr al-Bared camp has also shredded any sense of security in Lebanon...

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"A new law swept through Congress by the US government before the summer recess is to give American security agencies unprecedented pow...

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"Income inequality is usually measured by a country's Gini coefficient, in which 0 is perfect equality (everyone has the same incom...

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"Mrs Clinton might be portrayed as a communist on talk radio in Kansas, but set her alongside France's Nicolas Sarkozy, Germany...

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"But of the ten places with the highest correlation between being female and (relatively) satisfied, nine are mainly Muslim: Afghanista...

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"Gallup's pollsters asked a standard question: how satisfied are you with your life, on a scale of nought to ten? In all the rich p...

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He "was once asked to list the biggest influences on his life. His answer was, “My mom, my dad and our president.”"

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"France has 82 universities, teaching 1.5m students. All are public; none charges tuition fees; undergraduate enrolment charges are a t...

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Less than a $1 a day. (Click to enlarge NOW).

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"Contrary to the cherished American notion that our racial and ethnic diversity makes us stronger, Putnam has found quite the opposite,...

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Middle East Expertise in the US government. Look at this. Could it be more dumb? " The military says the soldiers were attacked at...

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" "Anthropologists have the opportunity right now to influence how the national security establishment does business," wr...

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Al-Arabiya TV has 30 minute daily segment in which the press is reviewed, and discussed with a visiting professor or journalist (always a ma...

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"I am a Jew who loves Israel, but who also believes that its policies are counterproductive to peace and its own long-term best interes...

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"“It is a pretty big leap between a mere indication of desire to attend a camp and a crystallized desire to kill, maim and kidnap,” sai...

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" Worse still, the notion that Padilla received a "fair trial" is dubious, to put it mildly, and will undoubtedly be vigorou...

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" Israelis develop drug erasing long-term memory". I don't care what you develop, you will never be able to erase Palestinia...

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"As for the falafel, the ubiquitous fried chickpea ball or patty is generally accepted as having originated in Egypt, although Israeli...

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Are you telling me that what Bush calls "the democratically-elected" government of Fu'ad Sanyurah is engaged in censorship? ...
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