The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب
A source on politics, war, the Middle East, Arabic poetry, and art.
Friday, November 25, 2011
NATO style of liberation
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" Six children were among seven civilians killed in a NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Thursday ."
ICC: International Criminal Court against Africa
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" Many hope the court will broaden its geographical ambit, although any such move will face huge political obstacles. No member of the...
Bahrain royal dependent commission report
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Angry Arab's chief Bahrain correspondent adds more comments on the report: " I skimmed the report. Here are my comments: - The C...
A Call for lynching on LBC TV
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The racist, sectarian, and right-wing news station that was founded as the propaganda arm of Bashir Gemayyel, LBC TV, has done it again. W...
The White Man in our Lands: an American student at AUB
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Somebody at AUB forwarded to me this email by an American student at the American University of Beirut to the Office International Programs...
He is not a crook
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The brother of Jordanian queen, Rania of past Youtube fame, finally commented on all the news and talk about his corruption. He said that h...
Partition of Palestine
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Thousands demonstrate in Jordan to commemorate the anniversary of the partition of Palestine. (thanks Joseph)
Those lousy Muslim Brotherhood
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The Muslims Brotherhood are the scoundrels of political: they are always seeking refuge in the last refuge of Middle East scoundrels. They...
Racist (sectarian) festival in Lebanon
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" But that’s not the story we’re hearing everywhere. What we’re hearing is: A young, Christian, virgin woman, 28, takes a 20-minute wa...
Neo-cons at the Daily Star
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The Daily Star has excellent fine people who work there and I communicate with a few of them. But the problem is at the level of owners and...
Bassioni's Bahraini contract?
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This needs to be investigated. Did Mr. Bassioni really sign a contract on behalf of the company that he owns with the Bahraini government ...
The Royal Bahraini Commission
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I am seeing a bit of the media round that Bassioni (whom I never trusted in this job that came out of a US initiate to save the royal famil...
Omar Al-Shihabi in the Guardian: the Bahrain Royal report
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I met Omar at Oxford University a few years ago and he left an excellent impression on me. I read this piece by him in the Guardian and wa...
On those superior Lebanese Christians
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" This, of course, is beside the fact that for many Lebanese—albeit mainly Christians—multilingualism and the appeal of Western langua...
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat is thrilled: US ambassador appears in Saudi dress
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How insecure they are. Saudi mouthpiece of Prince Salman and his sons, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, celebrates the fact that US ambassador, the ...
Saudi government on protests in Qatif
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Notice that the language of Saudi government about protests in Qatif is exactly like the language of the Syrian government about protests i...
Pro-Syrian propaganda
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Some of the most outrageous and kooky analysis of international affairs I see and read in Syrian regime media. In this analysis, for examp...
Chants "death to House of Saud" in Qatif in Saudi Arabia
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Chants in Qatif. (thanks As`ad--not me)
Terminology of New York Times
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" Since January, when Mr. Hariri’s government was toppled by a Hezbollah-led coalition known as March 8 ". Toppled? It lost is m...
John Hopkins
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I have a copy of the alleged PhD dissertation by war criminal, Rif`at Al-Asad (Saudi Arabia's favorite Syrian). In the sources, he men...
Will Israel pay the PA?
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Here is a PA source on why Israel will end up transferring tax revenues to the collaborationist regime in Ramallah: " In the end, it ...
Welcome to America
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" Still, the numbers of Iraqi students attending universities in the United States are much lower than they were under Saddam Hussein ...
CIA Station Chief in Lebanon is an anti-Semite?
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Hasan `Illayq, a fine journalist and investigative reporter for Al-Akhbar, writes on the CIA station in Lebanon based on Lebanese security ...
Gaddis on Kennan
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" Mr Gaddis is unequivocal on this topic. He told the New York Times in 2004 that “American imperial power…has been a remarkable for...
Disgrace unto the Nations
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" In any event, parliamentarians in Mr Netanyahu’s coalition have been hounding human-rights groups, which consist mainly of secular l...
Unpopular truths about Afghanistan
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" He demolishes some Western myths about Afghanistan that betray short memories and government spin. The Soviet years, for example, te...
Newt
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" Over the past year the demagoguery has got the upper hand. Mr Gingrich prophesies the end of “America as we know it” under a preside...
Immigration scare in the US
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The numbers tell a different story.
One trillion dollars to the US from House of Saud
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This Saudi publication maintains that the House of Saud will offer an investment package worth one trillion dollars to the US. Are there ...
Saudi media and the Bahrain commission
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Saudi media are outraged at the Bahrain commission. Their reaction is typical of Saudi media when they are angry: they tend to lie more an...
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
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I treat all that come out of Syrian regime media as lies until the contrary is proven. I now officially treat the Syrian Observatory for H...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Qatari foreign policy (Part II)
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My latest blog post for Al-Akhbar English on Qatari foreign policy.
Barenboim II
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And this guy asks Palestinians to forswear violence but never ever asks Israel to forswear violence. What do you call that except a propag...
Ian kershaw
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Kershaw in his Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich makes a stronger case about German attitudes and lethal indifferenc...
Daniel Barenboim
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I am sitting at sf airport and reading an article in the Economist's The World in 2012. This man Barenboim is an enemy of the Palesti...
Please welcome the NATO republic of Libya
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" Thousands of people, including women and children, are being illegally detained by rebel militias in Libya, according to a report by...
After Mubarak: Zionist panic
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" And the Maariv newspaper reported that Israel 's army chief Benny Gantz "has presented to the security cabinet a scenario...
Sectarian descriptions of protesters
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Do you notice that Barhaini and Saudi protesters are consistently referred to in Western and Arab (Saudi and Qatari-funded) as Shi`ite prot...
Extent and Objective of CIA Operations Under-reported
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Comrade Ibrahim Al-Amin on CIA operations in Lebanon .
Bahrain royal commission
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Angry Arab's chief Bahrain correspondent sent me additional comment: " Continuation: - no immediate reinstatement of workers and...
Arab liberals heart dictators
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" The threat of electoral defeat has even made some liberals sympathetic to the military’s attempt to dominate the constitution-writin...
What Bassioni did not say about Bahrain
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Angry Arab chief Bahrain correspondent sent me this: "Since you will be soon hearing what Bassiouni did say in his speech I will tell...
Naguib Sawires in New York City
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A source in attendance sent me this: " Naguibb Sawires spoke two days ago in New York at a gala event raising money for his Ahrar p...
Arabs and Arab uprisings
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Aghyan (a Syrian) sent me this unscientific survey of Arabs and Arab uprisings: "Not a scientific survey, but judging by the reaction...
Zionist spitting
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"The group took the step following a report in Haaretz about two weeks ago describing the practice of some ultra-Orthodox Jewish young...
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