Saturday, May 23, 2015

The grotesque Nation magazine's legacy of Zionism

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"Quoting from her own response to the Radoshes’ article, vanden Heuvel added, “When Kirchwey was writing, Israel was fighting for its ...

Women are mere pudenda for the Gulf royals

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Look at this tweet: "@MBZNews 2h2 hours ago Mohammed bin Rashid, Mohamed bin Zayed attend the wedding reception of Ahmed Saif Al Man...

lies of the media of House of Saud: Al-Hayat

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This headline from Al-Hayat, the mouthpiece of Prince Khalid bin Sultan, says (about his interview with Atlantic Monthly: "Obama: Our ...

Cherif Bassiouni: from Bahrain dictatorship to Israeli apartheid

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It is a consistent rode for Bassioni: from Bahraini dictatorship in his whitewash royal report there to series of lectures at Israeli unive...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Karl Marx on the Economist magazine

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Karl Marx, in Capital Volume I on the   Economist  magazine: "Between 1849 and 1859, a rise of wages practically insignificant, though...

Rev. Graham is both: anti-Muslim and anti- Semite but Zionists forgivehim for his support of Israel

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Read hereu  

Obama's lies about Palestine

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From Electronic Ali

A Moroccan TV station refers to the "war of aggression on Yemen": the anchorwoman was fired

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were carried in trucks accompanied by state intelligence agency (MIT) officials more than a year ago to parts of Syria under Islamist control

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"Testimony from gendarmerie officers in court documents reviewed by Reuters allege that rocket parts, ammunition and semi-finished mor...

So what do the "Friends of Syria" really want? From a US intelligence document (under FOIA)

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C. If the situation unravels there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in Eastern Syria (Hasa...

U.S. to send more bombs to Israel to be dropped on Palestinian people

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"Israel will receive a supply of precision-guided munitions consisting of 750 bunker buster bombs, 3,000 Hellfire missiles, 250 medium...

British colonial rule still is alive in the Gulf today

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"The move is part of a modest expansion of British military readiness in the region. In 2013 the Royal Air Force established an air tr...

Saudis on twitter

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Whether in the puff Economist piece on Saudi Arabia or in other Western media outlets, there is a silly assumptions that Saudi tweets are r...

From Latakia

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This Syrian reader from Latakia sent me this touching tribute .

So what does the Saudi dictatorship have to do to please the Economist magazine?

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"For King Salman and his heirs to make Saudi Arabia a credible leader they must reform its economy ."  So repression and violence...

The Economist puff piece on Saudi Arabia

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"Even the most downtrodden, such as the suppressed minority Shia in the east or the activists locked up simply for calling for reform,...

Saudi budgeting

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Saudi sectarian hashtag

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Regarding the bombing of the mosque in Saudi Arabia, a sectarian hashtag spreads to describe the bombing: #‏تفجير_حسينية_الرافضة‬

This Wahhabi clerical elite met and supported the wars of Saudi regime

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The Daily Beast educates readers about Muslims

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"Aren’t Muslims supposed to kill gays ?"

The Bin Laden books and documents

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Shouldn't all reports about the Bin Laden books and documents carry a disclaimer to the effect that: "all those documents and book...

Palestine flag over the fortress of Sidon

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I am relocating to Saudi Arabia

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" The government guarantees freedom of expression and opposes discrimination, said Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on W...

Arab politics in few American words

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"CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST:  In the Arab world, there`s Sunni and there`s Shia, you know, and there`s Kurds, I guess. And that`s it.  And s...

The Judicial Watch documents of US intelligence on Libya: how the US knew about the shipments of arms to Syrian Al-Qa`idah

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Comrade Amer writes about the Judicial Watch US intelligence documents revealing that the US knew all along that the Syrian rebels are mad...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

There is no worse conspiracy

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From Fred: "Is there a potato conspiracy in Turkey ?"

The resolution would enshrine the Zionist and segregationist principle of “two states for two peoples

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"France’s Le Figaro has obtained the text of a draft UN Security Council resolution that the Hollande administration plans to introduc...

"Nobel laureate's silence on the genocide of Rohingyas is tantamount to complicity"

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"In a genocide silence is complicity, and so it is with Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s desperate Rohingya community. The Burmese governm...

The interview with Obama in the Atlantic

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Basically, Obama added another contribution to the revised definition of anti-Semitism: anyone who does not agree to the Zionist occupation...

Flash: this is the first public threat that the US has ever issued to Saudi regime

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"Their covert—presumably—pursuit of a nuclear program would greatly strain the relationship they’ve got with the United States ."...

U.S. lawmakers give support to Saudi Arabia to show their love of human rights

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From Amir: ""A growing chorus of Republican politicians are demanding that President Barack Obama respect and follow the agenda o...

Syrian "revolution"

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Several rebel groups demonstrate in Aleppo and demand an Islamic state .  Do people remember when various Western correspondents in Beirut ...

Anne Barnard is worried. The question, Anne: are there no "wrong hands" in Syria at all?

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Another scoop by the Daily Telegraph team

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Carol Malouf (@carolmalouf) tweeted at 11:48 am on Thu, May 21, 2015: Unconfirmed reports: 27 Lebanese out of which 5 Christian political p...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Arab Gramsci? Not quite

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I am glad that Vijay wrote about a man who mostly wrote in Arabic (he has a few articles in French).  Mahdi `Amil was highly influential a...

Obama and secuirty assurances to Gulf regimes

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"The irony is that it ought to be the other way round. Given the spread of jihadist activity in the region and beyond, Obama should (b...

US press blacks out Israeli defense minister’s citation of ‘Nagasaki and Hiroshima’ as model for dealing with Iran

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"But there has been no coverage of this story in the mainstream media. It’s a blackout, conscious or not ."

Yesterday, I was reading the New York Times article about Iraq and they cited an expert from an organization. I said: look it up

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Here is the independent organization that was cited by NYT for opinion on Iraq .

Wait: I thought that the sole mission of Abraham Foxman is to fight defamation

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"Abraham H. Foxman, departing director of the Anti-Defamation League, said he thought the “you are an angel” reports “came as a bolt o...

Why the West loves the Tunisian president

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"as his government prepares for a costly structural overhaul of the economy to free it from stultifying state control "

This is how the New York Times defends the Tunisian henchman of Bourquiba and Bin Ali

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"but he retired in 1991, before the worst excesses of Mr. Ben Ali’s corrupt and increasingly authoritarian tenure ." Yes, before ...

Netanyahu described Rabbi Levinger as “an outstanding example of a generation that sought to realize the Zionist dream, in deed and in spirit

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A true Zionist indeed: "The Israeli authorities arrested Rabbi Levinger many times. In September 1988, after Palestinians threw stones...

Saudi spending habits

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"Moreover, its economic health is predicated on crude prices staying high. Saudi’s break-even — the oil price required to balance th...

Al-Qaeda's allies

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"The message that Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United States are unwilling to digest is that the conflict in Syria, as in Yemen...

Britain refuses to release document detailing its complicity in al-Khalifa dictatorship's war crimes against Bahraini civilians

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"In a ruling that disappointed campaigners, an information tribunal has ruled that there should be only a partial disclosure of the co...