so, this journal is pretty much dead... but i've started a new one, which i will attempt to update more regularly, here ( Read more... )

"I just don't know what got into her head, to be completely honest with you," GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said. "Her going to a state which is without question a sponsor of terror, and having her picture taken with (Bashar) Assad and being seen in a headscarf and so forth is sending the wrong signal to the people of Syria and to the people ( Read more... )

damn... 27 ( Read more... )

well, it's been a pretty long absence, i know... i just really haven't had much to say. or, rather, i haven't felt there has been much point to put down in text the details of what has been occupying my life these past months. i never really look back on these journals, and doubt anything i say has much influence on anybody else, so whenever i've ( Read more... )

A few nights ago I attended my first Syrian metal show, something which I'm sure very few of my non-Arab friends even realize exist. I thought taking some photos and making known the Syrian metal scene would be a good opportunity to reveal that side of the Middle East that is rarely, if ever, displayed in Western media ( Read more... )

I'm planning to head over to Lebanon once there is some sort of ceasefire called or a safe way in. The border from Damascus to Beirut is still closed, and the road completely fucked up anyway. The Homs to Baalbek road is the same story, I believe. I read the bridge south of Hermel leading to Baalbek was destroyed, and they've been bombing the Bekka ( Read more... )

Hasn't Qana experienced enough of your massacres, Israel?

So, I opened up a news article about "Bush's plan" to quell violence in Iraq, and found roughly half of the article to be about the pissing match between Democrats and Republicans over who can kiss more Zionist/AIPAC ass ( Read more... )

Israel tells villagers to flee, and then massacres them while they're doing so ( Read more... )

BENGKULU, INDONESIA - Israeli warplanes attacked a shoe factory in the Indonesian city of Bengkulu early Friday, destroying two buildings and setting a third ablaze. Thirteen deaths were reported and twenty-three more were wounded ( Read more... )