In the last two months I received countless spam emails, ads and invitations to join iPhone groups such as those at Facebook, all of which entice me to buy the new Apple mobile called, iPhone.

Until couple of weeks ago I didn’t even think of it, when a friend of mine showed me his new iPhone [...]

By Régis Debray, Le Monde Diplomatique

Foreword from the journal: Last year President Jacques Chirac asked Régis Debray to study the situation in the Middle East. On 15 January 2007 Debray sent the French authorities the following document on Palestine. It is an important key to understanding a long policy drift whose results are now obvious.

How [...]

UN: Peacekeeper killed in south Lebanon cluster bomb explosion

And Hillary Clinton voted to continue selling Israel these bombs… maybe she should write a condolence letter?

From the New Yorker’s David Remnick: The Apostate

Excerpts:

Short of being Prime Minister, Burg could not be higher in the Zionist establishment. His father was a Cabinet minister for nearly four decades, serving under Prime Ministers from David Ben-Gurion to Shimon Peres. In addition to a decade-long career in the Knesset, including four years as Speaker, [...]

…but Revolutionary Islam is not the Third Reich.

Embracing the empire
By Ian Buruma

“But the term “Islamofascism” was not coined for nothing. It invites us to see a big part of the Islamic world as a natural extension of Nazism. Saddam Hussein, who was hardly an Islamist, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is, are often described [...]

First of all, please meet Handala (Hat tip: Ben Heine for his great artwork):

Handala (or Hanzala) is the most famous of the Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali’s cartoon characters. From approximately 1975 through 1987 Naji Al-Ali created cartoons that depict the complexities of the plight of Palestinian refugees. These cartoons are still relevant today and Handala, [...]

False! Well, not everywhere, but at Daily Kos it sure is.

It has been nearly a month since I decided to start cross-posting most of what I write in my blog to my diary at Daily Kos. The diaries at Daily Kos are more or less make for a personal blog, where members can publish their [...]

Did you know that the Israeli farmer who shot Arab “intruder” 3 times in back, freed to “home arrest”? Did you know that Netanyahu uses the words that push US war buttons: “Iran and Holocaust.” Netanyahu knows which strategists and PR people to use to give him the right words (with a little help [...]

Sorry, but these guys seems to be living on a different planet. Less than a week ago, they spilled their poison on Jordan. Jordanian government spokesman Nasser Judeh replied:

On Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, Judeh was surprised to hear the HRW asks Jordan to consider thousands of Iraqis as refugees, noting the Agency that concerns [...]

Who said that traveling around is fun? Think again!

So, you told me that you a living in the land of honey, freedom and democracy? Well, I don’t envy you if this is what your country endorse:

Starting with the light story; six Muslim academics (Imams) were taken off a plane in the US and evidently placed [...]