An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...

Unfortunate in your circumstances ? Anguished ? Agonizing ? Victimized ? Forgotten ? Wretched creature. A surplus on this earth. There is no place for you. Wretchedness. The forgotten people. Left in some corner of this world. Voices unheard. Talking in the dark. In the Nothingness. In the Void. Smiling at strangers, all alone, in recluse...awaiting miracles. The miracle of Death or the miracle of some Divine Intervention. It all becomes the same. It's the waiting in secret anticipation, in a secret hidden hope, somewhere lodged inside of you, that keeps you going... Otherwise, life is the same. A waiting room in a doctor's office, waiting for the final prognosis. A cubicle in a court room, waiting for the final verdict. You look around, and you see no one. No doctor, no judge and no jury. Yet it seems, feels like you are in line. You have taken your place in the queue...waiting. Nothing forthcoming. Waiting...waiting...and in the waiting, you forget what you have actually been...

I was just heading to bed, then said to myself, just check your mail. I wish I hadn't. What I read and what you will also read in the next lines - was familiar to me. But seeing it in black and white, not only brought back all my rage but confirmed to me the hundreds of anonymous Iraqi stories I had heard... Hundreds of anonymous harrowing stories which since I have started blogging, a good majority of you out there, kept denying, kept denigrating what I relayed to you, kept accusing me and accusing other Iraqis of lies, made it incumbent upon us to bring proof of your savagery, of your brutality when we had not even stopped mourning our dead... These lines from your brave boys, talking about their deployment in 2005. 2005 was only the beginning. "Toward the end, we were so mad and tired and frustrated," said Daniel Freeman. "You came too close, we lit you up. You didn't stop, we ran your car over with the Bradley," an armored fighting vehicle...With each ro...

Some speak of a "Velvet Revolution" in Iran, while I see nothing but Red Blood. Velvet, Silk or Satin, or maybe just Black polyester, it doesn't really matter what you call it - the fact remains that thousands of Iranians have had it with the rule of the Ayatollahs. You may argue that they after all just reformists, following orders from "milder" Ayatollahs like the corrupt Rafsandjani and the warmonger advisor to Khomeini- Musavi. And you may also argue that they are also seeking legitimacy by turning to less belligerent Ayatollahs for guidance. And you are right in arguing this. However, I maintain that the majority of the Iranians who have not stopped protesting, risking their lives and those of their families, some being executed, some tortured, some disappeared, are NOT backers for the Reformist camp of Musavi and Co. I believe that within the very limited choice given - they opted to what they perceive to be the lesser evil - maybe not a door for ra...

The blogger Irish4palestine has published a VERY ,VERY, IMPORTANT piece of Information and I urge you ALL, to read it and circulate it around. From this article, it seems that ANY criticism : Of the Jewish state, of Judaism, of Jews, of Zionists, of Zionism, of Zionist thought, of Israel, of world Jewry, of Jewish collaboration with the Nazis, of questioning the holocaust, of questioning the eternal Jewish victim mentality, the paranoia, the neurosis, the eternal pain industry ... Of Jewish : racism, immorality, political corruption, theft, pillaging, rape, usurpation, appropriation, lies, deceit, manipulations, criminality, terrorism, arrogance, nazi methods, nay worse than nazi methods...and the rest...is FORBIDDEN under the charges of the very handy label of "anti-semitism". So this is the progression folks. If you mention the word jew - you are an anti-semite. if you mention the word judaism - you are an anti-semite if you mention the word zionist- you are an anti-semit...

Google, Blogger, has not only frozen my users stats, again and again , but the list of fellow blogger "followers" does not show up either... Is anyone else experiencing these "technical" problems ? I did say in my previous post , on the same subject - to the effect - don't fuck with me, as you have been doing for the past months... If you want me out - just say so. I also said - tell your big boss I am not impressed. You and I know who your big boss is.

Finally an ex-detainee from Abu Ghraib testifies. This one is a "mild" case. The "heavy duty" ones, the "heavy duty" cases are still terrified and too traumatized to speak out - assuming of course that they are still alive. "Photographs showing the abuse of inmates at Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison by US prison guards have shocked the world. The latest one to be outraged is Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff. Mullen has voiced his disgust after seeing some of the withheld photographs of the abuse that the administration of Barack Obama, the US president, is seeking to keep under the wraps and not let the world to see. In a leaked memo obtained by the Fox News network, Mullen said he was "appalled" that someone in an American uniform would behave in such a way. "We haven't all absorbed or applied all the lessons of Abu Ghraib," Mullen said." Appalled ? Oh really appalled ? Appalled t...

Is this some kind of a joke ? Or do you think am flirting with you ? Every month I have the same problem with you guys. You freeze my viewers stats on my profile until I kick up a fuss. You've been at it for the past 4 months. Listen, if this is your way to deter me, have the balls and say so, I will get my own website. This joke is getting fucking stale. Tell your big boss, am not impressed. And release my stats and do it NOW !