April 29, 2007
Posted by yaman
Prisoners being held in Syria’s Adra prison have written a letter to the public. The entire letter, in English and Arabic, is available here, but here is a short excerpt: Syrians have paid a high price for their rights and freedom and we hope to be the last group forced to pay this price to [...]
April 28, 2007
Posted by yaman
Marilee Jones, the former Dean of Admissions at MIT, could not have been a more perfect embodiment of her own beliefs. Disregarding all the judgment that has been passed on her old decision to lie about her credentials, you have to admit: is there a more perfect way to illustrate the lack of importance of [...]
April 26, 2007
Posted by yaman
Just kidding. However, the Syrian President, elected in his own right in a similar landslide, did praise the institution which reflected the will of the people–especially his own–and would lead Syria to a promising future. He added that few other countries around the world had elections so safe and carefully planned that the results would [...]
Students from the Israel Action Committee at UC Berkeley today celebrated Israeli Independence Day on Sproul Plaza today by introducing the student population to one of the State’s many innovations in the past 59 years: hip-hop music. The new Israeli genre has stirred a musical renaissance world-wide, and pop culture will certainly be indebted to [...]
April 20, 2007
Posted by yaman
From here: Noble Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan was treated for injury in leg sustained by rubber bullet Nobel Peace Prize Mairead Corrigan has been injured during confrontations between security forces and left-wing activists protesting the security fence route near Bilin, activists said. Corrigan, who won the prize in 1976 for her work in encouraging [...]
April 19, 2007
Posted by yaman
على صوتك بالغنى لسه الاغانى ممكنة, ممكنة ولسه يامه ياما ياماه ÙÙ‰ عمرنا على صوتك بالغنى لسه الاغانى ممكنة, ممكنة ولو ÙÙ‰ يوم Ø±Ø§Ø ØªÙ†ÙƒØ³Ø± لازم تقوم واق٠كما النخل باصص للسما للسما ولا انهزام ولا انكسار ولا انهزام ولا انكسار ولا خو٠ولا ولا Øلم نابت ÙÙ‰ الخلا على صوتك بالغنى لسه الاغانى ممكنة, [...]
April 14, 2007
Posted by yaman
أنا مش كاÙر بس الجوع كاÙر أنا مش كاÙر بس المرض كاÙر أنا مش كاÙر بس الÙقر كاÙر Ùˆ الذل كاÙر أنا مش كاÙر لكن شو بعملك أذا اجتمعوا Ùيي كل الإشيا الكاÙرين أنا مش كاÙر… يللي بيصلي الأØد Ùˆ يللي بيصلي الجمعة واعد ÙŠÙÙ„Ø Ùينا علطول الجمعة هو يللي دين قال Ùˆ أنا يللي [...]
April 10, 2007
Posted by yaman
Pundits and propagandists alike often pose this question to those who dissent against current American and Israeli policies in the Middle East. For them, the dichotomy is simply one of “I support terrorism” or “I am against terrorism.” The slightest deviation from thought deemed acceptable by those coordinating policy results in such a question, even [...]
A Yale-sponsored conference about anti-Semitism hosted many blatantly anti-Arab and anti-Muslim speakers. It is unconscionable for a center meant to study one form of racism to indulge speakers who practice another.
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Both the Irish and Middle Eastern conflicts figure prominently in American domestic politics — yet both have played out in very different ways.
A must read piece by Ali Abunimah in NYT.
(Discussion)abc Primetime – How Muslims Are Treated In USA
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To get an idea of the real reason why Apple has succeeded, it was only necessary to look below the May article hailing the company’s success on the front page of the Times business section. A second article reported on a spate of suicides in some Chinese sweatshops that was drawing attention to work…
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Immediately following the incident, McCord was threatened and mocked by his commanding officer for pulling the children from the van. He says his platoon leader “yelled at me that I need to quit worrying about these ‘motherfucking kids’ and pull security.” McCord later approached a staff sergeant an…
Remember the “Collateral Murder” video leaked of the helicopter attack that killed a journalist? Here’s some insights from one of the soldiers at the scene and into the way it was handled by military personnel.
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Portraying “enemy” infants as proto-terrorists has obvious propaganda value: if what you thought was an innocent baby is in fact a weapon with a human face, you will be less likely to protest when it is killed. Murder becomes self-defence. Not only are we supposed to view ‘their’ children as latent …
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HarvardManagementCompany, which manages the university’sendowment, has divested the fund from allinvestmentsit had inIsraelcompanies.
I’m a small pariah state, hear me pout. Though I’m a scandal, don’t shut me out!
(Discussion)A mere thirty-three years ago, on January 20, 1977, Jimmy Carter inaugurated his presidency by proclaiming from the Capitol steps, “Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere…. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute.” Most people had never heard of “h…
Thought provoking article for people chained to the language of human rights.
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