The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

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

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The other side of cute Trudeau

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"These days, Canada is the second-largest arms exporter to the Middle East ."

Overwhelming majority of Palestinian minors in Israeli custody are tortured

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"The “overwhelming majority” of Palestinian minors held in Israel’s Megiddo and Ofer prisons have been tortured during their detention...

Compare the coverage of Mosul & East Aleppo

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"The extreme bias shown in foreign media coverage of similar events in Iraq and Syria will be a rewarding subject for PhDs students l...

Western coverage of Mosul and East Aleppo: Is Patrick Cockburn the only Western correspondent who is free of propaganda burdens?

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" But look at how differently the international media is treating a similar situation in Mosul, 300 miles east of Aleppo, where one mi...

Propaganda of Syrian rebels in Western media: The toy smuggler of Aleppo

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" A story too good to be true – The toy smuggler of Aleppo’s jihadist connections, made-up stories and an orphan project run aground ...

HILARIOUS: The most liberal think tank in DC offers its vision for the next US president: you need to bomb more in the Middle East

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It is not amazing that the vision of the most liberal DC think tank is not that different from the vision of the Israeli lobby.  They basic...

The mafia which rules Syria: its war on the poor continues

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The mafia ruling the Syrian regime has decided that the poor of Syria has had enough of indulgence and cuddling.  It decided yesterday to l...

Rober Lacey would like you to know this about the Saudi tyranny

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“Some people refuse to give any credit to the Gulf monarchies,” he says. “It’s worth remembering that Saudi Arabia has never executed a sin...
Monday, October 24, 2016

When I was in Lebanon subject to Israeli indiscriminate bombardment in 1982, Tom Hayden was cheering Israeli occupation soldiers

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From James: " Jane Fonda Criticizes P.L.O.  TEL AVIV, July 2 —  Jane Fonda and her husband, Tom Hayden, arrived today for a weeklon...

Once a month: Bashshar and sovereignty

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Once a month, the Syrian regimes remembers the sovereignty of Syria--rhetorically.  

Bernie's endorsement of Hillary

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His endorsement confirmed the distrust that many in the left have felt about him all along, and it registers as one of the greatest betraya...

Banning liquor in Iraq

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Those who ruled that US occupation is religiously permissible are the same people who ruled that liquor is religiously impermissible.

No one can save the sects in Iraq like the US occupiers

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"The official emphasized the need for the US-led coalition’s close involvement in Mosul, especially after the experience of the recapt...

Adonis and Nobel

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Adonis contacted the Nobel Literature Committee and offered to receive the prize on behalf of Bob Dylan.

Al-Arabiyya lifts my post about Bob Dylan without mentioning the source

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So I received a tape of Bob Dylan talking about Um Kulthum.  I asked readers to render it into a web link on Sound Cloud.  A reader took ca...

How the US Ignited the Lebanese Civil War (8)

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My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: "How the US Ignited the Lebanese Civil War: Arms to the Phalanges And Ahrar from US, Israel, Spain, Ge...

What is said about ISIS in Mosul: why is it not said about Al-Qa`idah and its allies in East Aleppo? They are morally superior?

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Kenneth Roth ( @KenRoth ) 10/23/16, 7:23 AM ISIS endangers civilians by attacking from populated areas, preventing civilians fleeing H...

Warning to Syrian workers in Lebanon

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Here, in this banner from Zgharta-Ehdin in north Lebanon (under the influence of Syrian regime ally, Sulayman Franjiyyah--a close friend...

The New York Times celebrates female voting in Saudi Arabia

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Calm down . Women and men vote in North Korea.  I don't see you cheering their voting. Cuba has more females in its legislature than th...

When the sleazy media of Saudi princes mocks Jill Stein of the Green Party (Al-Arabiyya)

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"The US Presidential candidate for the Green Party, Jill Stein, has tweeted that a planned Qatari-Turkish "US-backed" pipeli...

Who are the Arabs who want the US to be more--NOT LESS--engaged in the Middle East?

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Notice how casually the Western media conflate Arab public opinion with the opinions of Arab rulers and pundits are Gulf-funded think tanks...

The Nation magazine declared her a "progressive" candidate

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" How mega-donors helped raise $1 billion for Hillary Clinton "

The Washington consensus

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The worst policy options are those which are favored by the Washington consensus: whether about Syria or about Hillary.  

Eggplant Fries

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You are looking at the greatest invention since the hummus.  This is actually Eggplant Fries, which is the speciality of a Lebanese-owned...
Friday, October 21, 2016

Traveling with my wife

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Back on Monday.
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Newsweek on Saudi Arabia

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Does not the coverage of Saudi Arabia in most mainstream Western media reads like the press releases of Saudi embassies around the world? ...

Hillary buys into the "reforms" of Bashshar

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In her leaked remarks, Hillary basically subscribes to the notion that the Syrian people would have been fine with Bashshar had he enacted ...

Bob Dylan's embrace of Israel's war crimes

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"Already in 1971, Scaduto wrote, “Dylan’s enthusiasm for the militant Jewish organization has brought down the wrath of some in the ra...

U.S. complicity in war crimes

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" “The continuing civilian carnage caused by the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition in Yemen is horrifying,” Lieu wrote in the letter...

The resort to human shields argument

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Notice that US and Israel only use the argument that "they are hiding behind human shields" about enemies of Israel only and abou...

Fact Checker of the Times

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This is one of the lousiest jobs in US journalism .  Forget about the political bias in favor of Hillary, the checker can't get to admi...

Candidate Clump

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"After careful analysis of Mr. Trump’s inconstancy on the Middle East and other matters, I have come to suspect that he is actually fi...

Has Reuters been purchased by the Saudi regime? Their report on Iranian supplies to Huthis

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Brian Whitaker has rightly expressed skepticism about this Reuters story about Iranian arming of Huthis. But the funny part is that the me...

Treasury Department now classifies organizations and individuals as terrorist jointly with the Saudi government

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" Action Includes Joint Designations by the United States and Saudi Arabia ".  Will they also behead convicts jointly?

Syrian rebels propaganda

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Rebels of Ahrar Ash-Sham and Nusrah Front and Jaysh Al-Fath have been posting those signs in Idlib and elsewhere. The sign reads: "B...

CORRECTION: Look how much Bill Clinton knows about Lebanese politics

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" Lebanon has taken in over one million refugees (its total population does not exceed five million), and   it has not had a president...

Trump Versus Hillary

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The craziness of Trump is obscuring the dangers of Hillary Clinton--especially to world peace.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

My Chris Wallace story

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My Chris Wallace's story (who was the only decent moderator of all those presidential debates we have seen in recent years).  As you kn...

FIXED Link: Bob Dylan on Um Kulthum

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Here is the recording of Bob Dylan talking about Um Kulthum .

Sheikh Mo: Ruler of Dubai being his sleazy self

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A Brief History of Time

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Hawkin's book, A Brief History of Time deserves a Nobel Prize for literature. Serious.  

Bassam Haddad on Syria

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This is a new article on Syria by Bassam Haddad.  I don't agree with it in full, but he raises interesting points.  I wish he treated ...

women in Saudi Arabia; this Saudi regime network explains that it is all a misunderstanding

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" Despite popular beliefs, many women in Saudi Arabia drive their cars in order to run errands and get from place to place. The govern...

Ben Hubbard is ecstatic: he almost declares Saudi regime as the epitome of virtuous rule

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OK: regarding the execution of the prince. We don't know the circumstances of the execution. There is certainly more to the story than ...

Meritocracy at the New York Times

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" Mr. Sulzberger, the son of Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who took over as publisher in 1992, was one of three candidates, all cousins... By...
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