février 2012
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Yesterday I was talking to an Afghan friend of mine who lived for 10 years in Peshawar as a refugee. He told me that in mosques, during Friday prayers, the imam would pray for the same Islam to be in Pakistan as it was in Afghanistan. This was during the Taliban, before the American invasion. Well, the prayer was heard.
A slave can dance, but only to the rhythm of his chained ankles.
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In 2008 when Sarkozy took Bashar al-Assad as his bedfellow, Le Figaro - a right wing French newspaper - was told by the French government not to print anything about political prisoners in Syria.
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Apparently the West wants to bring democracy in Syria, the same countries that used to send suspected terrorists to secret prisons in Syria to be tortured.
Going to Spain again
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How to write about the Iranian nuclear issue
mak[e] the situation appear as if it’s a clash of civilizations, where an enlightened, rational, liberal, and democratic West is engaged with a backward, religious, and belligerent Iran from the East. The endeavor has so far been fruitless; the fatherly West has been unable to convince a childish Iran to forego its naïve claims to sovereignty. Iran still clamors to independently decide its...
Everytime you say « eye-ran » or « eye-rack » or « muz-lums » or any other such thing, 1.62 billion Muslims boil with anger and the world temperature increases. This is what is causing global warming. So please stop.
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“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.” - Malcolm X
Rest in peace, Malcolm X
“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And,...”
– A Psalm Of Life
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Learn to labor and to wait
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Make sure to check out the Israeli Apartheid Week on your university campuses!
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Pro-Palestinian protest ends in violence in London...
Violence erupted yesterday on the campus of the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) following a pro-Palestinian protest staged by the university’s Palestine Society, according to the Beaver, the LSE Students’ Union newspaper. A mock wall was erected on the campus grounds as part of the “Israeli Apartheid Week” events to re-create the checkpoint system in Israel. Members...
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NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast...
The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned. Police talked with local authorities about professors 300 miles (480 kilometers) away in Buffalo and even sent an undercover agent on a...
what’s the best country to go and study arabic during the summer ?
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I am also very worried about a lunatic, religious and reactionary state and its nuclear capabilities. This country is called Israel.
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Confusion about Palestine
Norman Finkelstein disappointed a few people after his outburst in an interview with Frank Barat regarding the BDS movement. Here are my replies to it:
When Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky say that hypocrisy of pro-Palestinian activists rises to heaven when they call for the boycott of Israel but not the same for the US, American universities, their products, etc., they simply ignore that an...
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How exactly does a club go from being the Invincibles to being in a shit like this ?
Arsenal are owned by two of the richest people in the world but the club still can’t put a cent into the team.
Saudi Arabia loves Israel.
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When Iran and Israel were friendly
The alliance, though never formalized or publicized because of Israel’s unpopularity in the region, consisted of deep intelligence and arms cooperation, as well as oil sharing. In the late 1950s, Israel, Iran and Turkey formed a trilateral intelligence alliance and performed counterterrorism intelligence operations. In the early 1960s, they teamed up to support Iraqi Kurds fighting the central...
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You know your team sucks when Ibrahimovic has a good day against you
You have come of age if you start understanding poetry
Usually it were the poor African countries that were destroyed by the IMF, but now one of the European countries is being treated the same way the Third World is. Sooner or later, Spain and Portugal will follow too
zushan a demandé : You are greatly mistaken. The Pakistani government denies the genocide in Bangladesh, and the struggles the Balochi people face. Get your wording right.
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A poster by Pakistan Toursim says, “Go to Pakistan and you will never come back”
Let’s side step all this hysteria about the cuts in the American war budget and let the world know that the budget will only be cut by 8%, which would mean the the US will still be far, far ahead in war spending than the rest of the world.
Scumbag Arab League
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Pakistanis deny the genocide in Bangladesh, and they also deny the ongoing massacres in Balochistan.
Did you know that technically Baluchistan is an occupied territory ?
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Israel's favourite song.
Your land is my land.
And this is where the song ends.
For the next month’s version of my e-zine, watch out for Anouar Benmalek’s interview. Harvard Review called him the next Albert Camus, and he is considered the biggest Algerian writer since Kateb Yacine.
Apparently if you point out that Western history is littered with things like the Holocaust and slavery, then you are “going too far”.
The IMF makes people riot once again.
wasting my life away thanks to what my “father” has created for me
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Even though the war, officially, is in Iraq and Afghanistan, it was Pakistan that, in 2009, had more casualties than Afghanistan in the same year and Iraq in 2011.
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The austerity bill for Greece entails: laying off 150,000 workers, 22% decrease in minimum wage, as well as cuts in retirement benefits. On top of that, water and electricity services will be privatized. These are measures to put the country in a depression, instead of taking it out of recession.
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The Middle East Quartet: A Post-Mortem
If the Quartet’s greatest strength was its ability to marshal the collective resources of its members and speak with one authoritative voice, its principal weaknesses was its tendency to be all things to all people. The malleability of the Quartet allowed its most powerful member, the United States, to dominate the mechanism so completely as to effectively transform it in virtually every way....
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800,000 Kashmiris Haunted by Horror
Maheen was nine years old when she witnessed the death of her elder brother. At the age of 10 she saw the dead body of her neighbour, killed in the crossfire between Kashmiri rebels and Indian security forces, his guts spilled out on the road. The incidents left Maheen restless, irritable and insomniac, for which she was prescribed five miligrammes of Valium by a local physician. But even in her...
Reading Le Figaro
OMG, this is getting better by the paragraph: If Westerners criticize colonization and the Crusades, it amounts to “systematic self-flagellation which makes Europe loose its natural defense”
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According to the French right-wing paper Le Figaro, if Westerners criticize Western Civilization, they are “self-hating”.
I almost choked on my coffee as I read this.
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A few words on Bashar Al-Assad
He keeps what the US and Israel call « Stability ». The Syrians have been careful not to challenge Israel because they can’t afford confrontation with Israel. As long as the dictatorship remains (not just in Syria, but also in Egypt and Jordan) the government will be aloof when it comes to public opinion, which is highly pro-Palestinian. The US and Israel want the dictatorships to stay...
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Contrary to mythology, Bashar Al-Assad is rather good friends with the US, EU and especially Israel.
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Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th...
TEHRAN—Amidst mounting geopolitical tensions, Iranian officials said Wednesday they were increasingly concerned about the United States of America’s uranium-enrichment program, fearing the Western nation may soon be capable of producing its 8,500th nuclear weapon. “Our intelligence estimates indicate that, if it is allowed to progress with its aggressive nuclear program, the United...
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Marines posed with flag resembling Nazi SS logo in... →
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Since when did the UN become so important and relevant for the United States ?
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EU and the US took the resolution to the UN knowing very well that it would be voted down by Russia and China; otherwise they would never have put forth anything at the UN. Western gestures are empty, for they all know that if they touch Syria, they automatically touch Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Iran. Bashar also knows that and that is why he can kill people without fear. What’s the option...
Costs of the financial crisis: In 2009, 10500 people in France took their own lives because they were unemployed.
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Notre“civilisation” de l’argent a échoué sur deux points fondamentaux. D’abord, elle met en péril structurellement la planète par des pollutions massives qui ignorent les frontières et elle épuise les énergies fossiles. Ensuite, elle asservit des masses urbanisées soumises aux pires pollutions (Bombay) et à la malbouffe. Elle leur donne comme unique but une consommation...
Qui a besoin de Le Pen quand on a déjà Sarkozy et Guéant ?