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October 28, 2008

This Is Another Country dear

Aggregated from: Egyptian chronicles

Yesterday a U.S army helicopter entered the Syrian borders attacking and killing 8 innocent construction workers who did nothing wrong except that they were in Al-Boukamal area near the Iraqi borders !! Here is the news from SANA and also from Haaretz . Now can you tell what was this U.S helicopte...

US attack on Syria

Aggregated from: JOTMAN

If any good fight will do, why not pick one with the weakest US adversary in the region? IHT reports on a potentially serious incident of aggression by the US against Syria:U.S. military helicopters attacked an area along Syria's border with Iraq Sunday, killing eight people, the Syrian government ...

October 10, 2008

They had it Coming

Aggregated from: Outcast

“So is it you [the Syrians] or the Iranians next on the American list?” Asked a friend of mine in a recent IM conversation, and continued with the following statement “well since both Syria and Iran are democracies and the people elected their governments and can hold them accountable for thei...

Lebanon: ‘Kidnapped' Amercian Journalists Found in Syria Jail

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Tony Bey, from Lebanon, reports that two missing American journalists have been found - detained in Syria. ...

October 1, 2008

Dear American Voter

Aggregated from: Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead » USA

In less than six weeks the American people will be casting their votes for their next President. The 2008 Election Campaign has proven to be one of the most historically important, with regard to both gender and race. There has been an incredible amount of interest in the 2008 election campaign, not...

September 26, 2008

Democracy Vs. Idiocracy

Aggregated from: Outcast

The following argument will be based on the theorem that the masses are genuinely stupid. Therefore, the notion of choosing a leader of a given group or organization by the process of popular vote is mistakenly called a democracy while in fact it is utter idiocracy. Let’s take the current US el...

September 17, 2008

Syria: No Chrome for Syrians

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Syrian Yaser Sadeq says Google new browser Chrome is not available in Syria because “our friends in Google corp. have decided or agreed to withhold their services from syrian users as part of the embargo by the U.S government against Syria.” ...

September 5, 2008

From Sarah with love !!

Aggregated from: Egyptian chronicles

Here is Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech in front of the RNC convention. She paid back to Obama after all that attack on her experience in a woman way. First here is the video , it is long somehow but it is worth to watch this republican circus. Now here are my remarks about this speech : Ag...

August 24, 2008

Biden on Syria

Aggregated from: Syria Comment

Biden on Syria: Qifa Nabki rounded up Biden quotes on Syria and the region: “There are plenty of reasons to mistrust Assad, but there could be real benefits to hard-headed diplomacy. Syria is the common denominator of many problems - in Lebanon , the Palestinian territories, and to a lesser ext...

August 8, 2008

Barack Obama's Muslim Outreach Coordinator Resigns

Mazen Asbahi, the attorney who had volunteered as Barack Obama's outreach coordinator to Muslim and Arab-Americans, has resigned after accusations of ties to Jamal Said, an imam at a fundamentalist mosque in Illinois. Asbahi briefly sat on the board of Allied Assets Advisors Fund with Said in 2000. Bloggers from the Middle East react in this post from Jillian York.