27 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted in LB Politics
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In Iraq, you can easily earn money by spying on your people, also known as spreading democracy.
Above is an old photo for a British military vehicle with a poster ‘you can get some money, in exchange for some information’.
Seems the British army deals with dollars too, or with others’ dollars.
Source: @IraqiBlogger
07 Sunday Oct 2012
Posted in LB Culture, Lebanon, Politics
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Construction, Health and Safety in Lebanon, Human rights, Labor, Lebanese government, lebanon, Living wage, Occupational health and safety, Photo
I deeply thank Habib Battah for his blog post on The Beirut Report for highlighting an example of the bad conditions under which construction workers (foreign most of the time) live in Lebanon. Construction in general is a subject close to my heart, and “health and safety” is a main aspect of delivering construction projects, considering this industry is statistically one of the most dangerous in terms of accidents and casualties numbers (relative to other office and non-office jobs).
18 Monday Jun 2012
Posted in LB Politics, MB Culture, Media Monitoring, MicroBlogs, Press, The rest of the world, World
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Hate Culture, Humanity, Israel, Middle East, Photo, Press, Propaganda, Terrorism, West Bank, Yedioth Ahronoth
I am convinced the violence that historically plagued the Middle East is rooted in the culture of hate that is widely spread and established in the region. We see it in form of sectarianism, religious or ultra-nationalist forms, but we – rightly – beat ourselves for having this disease, while Israel claims to be a democracy and peace-loving country.
Israel continuously fear-mongers about the ‘savage Arabs’ that live around them who want to throw them in the sea, and use children in their militant activities – which is no doubt the worse type of all.
A main differentiation of existence of the hate culture in Israel is its promotion on the ‘state’ level, and not on the level of some rogue elements or parties in the society. Israel is as worse as, if not way ahead of, its neighbourhood in this respect. Israel is the place where militancy and war-readiness is seeded in their children minds.
01 Friday Jun 2012
Posted in LB Politics, Lebanon, Media Monitoring, Politics, Social Media
Some Future Movement politicians have wrongly attacked in their media appearances the Lebanese Army after what happened recently in the north. So our Lebanese army decided to respond, but in the wrong way.
12 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Arab World, MB Culture, MicroBlogs, Other Arab issues
And you thought there was nothing to blog about President Michel Sleiman’s visit to Qatar last week?
23 Thursday Feb 2012
Posted in Arab Spring, Arab World, Politics, Syria
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arab spring, Homs, Libya, Marie Colvin, Photo, syria, World Press Photo
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Again today, on Marie Colvin’s death yesterday in Homs; I did speculate that her death could have been a result of a direct intentional hit by the Syrian army. My confidence in this speculation has shot up now; this is an interesting but strange piece of intelligence by The Daily Mail: Continue reading »
05 Sunday Feb 2012
Posted in Caricature of the day, Media Monitoring, Press, The rest of the world, World
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Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Islam, Photo, Press, Propaganda, Supreme Leader of Iran, The Atlantic
It’s surely one of the most bizarre ways to commemorate an event. Iran has marked the 33rd anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini’s return to Iran from his exile before the Islamic revolution took over power in 1979, by re-enacting his journey with a replica of him, made of an oversized cardboard cut-out.
29 Sunday Jan 2012
Posted in Arab Spring, Media Monitoring, Syria, TV
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If there is any joke in the Syrian revolution, it’s the Addounia TV, the private channel linked to the Syrian regime. Addounia was always the masquerade of all the [state] media reporting on the uprising since its start in March 2011.
07 Saturday Jan 2012
Posted in Arab Spring, Arab World, Syria
If you believe he is a leader, symbol, hero, eternal, wise, strategist, impeccable, exclusive, fair, educated, comrade, Lieutenant-General (highest military rank in 6 years military career), father, loving, doctor, reformer, secular, early starter of his working day, fighting corruption, building modern Syria, maintaining the country and region’s stability, protecting Lebanon, fighting Israel, protecting the Palestinian people, fighting for their cause, defusing all conspiracies against Arabs, fighting imperialism, facing a UNIVERSAL (yes, from universe) conspiracy, cracking down on terrorism in general, finishing Syria’s armed gangs, and spreading the spirit of Arabism, unification, freedom and socialism, then I think you truly deserve to be his slave, kneeling on your knees and kissing his poster. Even better, if his father previously did all these things, and still his qualities exceeded the above top marks, then he truly deserve you worship him FOREVER.
31 Saturday Dec 2011
Posted in Arab Spring, Arab World, Politics, Syria
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Homs, Hosni Mubarak, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Photo, syria, Tunisia
As per the end of the year publishing traditions, I just want to say happy new year to the blog readers with this 2010 dictators photo from the Afro-Arab summit in Libya. I think this photo best represents the 2011 highlights events. Who thought this was even thinkable?
29 Thursday Dec 2011
Posted in Media Monitoring, Press, Syria, The rest of the world, World
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It was a majestic funeral indeed for the North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il yesterday. You can see from the above photo how tidy the scene is. Mourners standing in lines, snowy white background and parades passing by in order. I just wondered if the people were crying because of their leader’s death or they we were just feeling cold.
But with North Korea being one of the highest militarised country in the world (9.3 million or 38% of the total population are military personnel including the reserves), and for a country that responded with a ‘military-first’ policy to a national famine that killed around 1.5 million of its people, you can’t really trust anything that comes out from this country, not even a funeral photo!
27 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Arab Spring, MB Politics
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Posted by Nabeel Rajab, the president of Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, this photo gives you an idea of how journalists (or someone with a camera!) are treated in Bahrain, in the forgotten revolution.
Isn’t this person being ‘terrorised’?
03 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Arab World, MB Politics, MicroBlogs, Other Arab issues, Politics
In the wake of today’s attack on a mosque by suspected Jewish extremists in northern Israel, the above picture can probably give you a good explanation to the background of similar attacks, and to the spread of this mental corruption, the “Price Tag” policy.
The photo is for armed Jewish settlers in the West Bank hosting some foreigner comrades, who are part of the Jewish Defence League aiming to defend the settlements against ‘Palestinian violence’. They, in fact, ignore the fact that their presence where they are in the first place is considered an occupation and aggression by the Palestinians, United Nations and the international law.
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21 Thursday Jul 2011
Posted in MB Culture, MicroBlogs
In reference to my previous post The ‘Health and Safety’ culture in Lebanon, please enjoy painfully this crazy photo from Beirut.
16 Saturday Jul 2011
Posted in Arab Spring, Arab World, MB Social, MicroBlogs
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Libyan Leader Muammar Al-Gaddafi featured in a piece of street art in Libya. Photo by Rory Mulholland.
28 Tuesday Jun 2011
Posted in MB Social, MicroBlogs
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This is NOT Denzel Washington or someone from Hollywood, it’s Barack Obama…the cool?
23 Thursday Jun 2011
Posted in MB Social, MicroBlogs
I found this photo, so much representing the difference between the East and the West; in terms of the status of freedoms in general, and the living conditions of women in specific.
let the photo does the talk…
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18 Saturday Jun 2011
Posted in MB Social, MicroBlogs, The rest of the world, World
…during the ‘hockey riots’ in Vancouver in Canada this week!
We could have done with that yesterday… in North Lebanon! couldn’t we?
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