UPDATE In continuation with the Caterrorpillar Chronicles here at Black Iris, there is an interesting article at the Electronic Intifada by Dane Baker, in which he accounts for media and press reaction to the selling of Caterpillars to the IOF. In specific the lack of integrity and objectivity of publications such as the Los Angeles [...]

Jordan’s tourism revenues reach $1 billion (upi News) AMMAN, Jordan: Jordan’s revenues from tourism reached $1 billion in 2004, a 4.5 percent increase from the year before, Tourism Minister Alia Boran said Wednesday. “This is a positive indicator, and we expect a better income in the future, following several years of stagnation due to difficult [...]

There’s Always Delusion Since it’s almost graduation season, and since I have one more year to suffer before grad school knocks, I thought it would be a cool idea to post a funny speech. So here’s a little something from one of my all-time favorite late night hosts: Conan O’Brien, as he spoke to the [...]

Memoirs of an Unexpected Life I highly recommend this book which I read 2 years ago and it has just been released a few weeks ago in Paperback. Her Majesty is one of the most remarkable people in the world, and a great intellectual and role model for all Jordanians to aspire to. In the [...]

Everyone’s been talking about it lately and alot of views have been shared that range from the constructive to the destructive. Outrage has been expressed and so has doubt, so I thought I would take the oppertunity to make my views clear on the reactions because they are just as important (if not more than) [...]

An interesting thing today. As part of a 4th year university course on Public Policy and Canadian Politics in a North American context, I had to prepare over the course of the year a long public policy project. Being the idiot I am, I could not go with something simple, or something everyone else was [...]

MULTIMEDIA The following are links to some interesting videos taken of homes being demolished. Operation Rainbow has been an ongoing demolition of homes in Rafah, Gaza since last May 2004. Israel claims it was to uproot “terrorists”. In about a week’s time Israel had killed 38 civilians of them 9 children and wounded 134 civilians [...]

UPDATE (a sad one) CHICAGO – Caterpillar Inc. shareholders on Wednesday soundly rejected a resolution that would have directed the heavy equipment manufacturer to investigate the use of its bulldozers by the Israeli army to demolish Palestinian homes. The resolution, which the company said at its annual meeting was defeated 97 percent to 3 percent, [...]