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A.N.D. Syria UPDATE

ARAB NEWS DESK JANUARY 31,  2012 Syria In Trouble The UN international community is coming together in New York soon to figure out the next course of action with regards to  President Bashar Al-Assad, who continues a bloody crackdown on his country now in its eleventh month. The UN has put the death toll at [...]

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A.N.D. MIDEAST UPDATE

ARAB NEWS DESK SHOTGUN UPDATE: JANUARY 28th 2012 The situation in Syria is worsening as the Arab League has announced it is suspending its fact-finding mission in the beleaguered Arab nation. Scores are dead, including women and small children, as the Assad Regime has refused to pull back from a nearly year-long crackdown that has [...]

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Uncomfortably Close w Syrian Americans – SYRIA NEEDS YOUR HELP

ARAB NEWS DESK —– RAJAI HAKKI I was able to do a guerrilla interview with my aunt since I’m crashing at her house while we finish the studio. I had already taken a few massive hits off a cored apple filled with OG Kush. Anyways, here is the video. It shows you that Syrian Americans [...]

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Arab News Desk [AND] Update- Next Stops: NYC, BEIRUT??

Dear Superchief, as it’s been a minute since I did a vidblog here it is: Stay Tuned to the ARAB NEWS DESK Year of Our Lord – Jan – 24 – 2012 PS: THE ARAB NEWS DESK STUDIO / MY APARTMENT is ALMOST FINISHED@@!!

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NEW FRONT IN ENDLESS WAR: ARAB AND ISRAELI CYBERPUNKS DUKE IT OUT

  The ill will, shit-talking, and straight-up sabotage is heating up in recent news in a new front on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Around Christmas a hacker calling himself “OxOmar” announced to the world he stole almost half a million credit card accounts as a “gift to the world for the New Year … [to] hurt [...]

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Why So Syrian? (VIVA LA SYRIAN REVOLUTION)

VIVA LA REVOLUTION By: Rajai Hakki Arab News Desk This is it, I connecteded a sexy little wireless keyboard to the iPad and I’m ready to do this to you. I’m back, Superchief. Back for you, babe. And you better not have fucking slept with any other guys. (If you did I’m not really mad [...]

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Naked Egyptian Bloggerchick OUTRAGE – Cuz U Want it

In case you gents haven’t noticed, Arabic girls are Hot as Hell. I never dated any until last year when I lived in Syria and spent the vast majority of my time getting high and chasing and can we say “closing the deal” with them. I will never forget those innumerable moments of ecstasy. I’m [...]

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I JUST KILLED JOURNALISM

It’s 0452 AM here in Washington, DC … seems kinda cold out there, but the studio awaits. Gonna show you this pic and a little vid I made about a despot who will be deposed or dead soon. His name is Bashar Assad — He’s the President of Syria … but not for long … [...]

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“BREAK THEIR BONES” (YITZAK RABIN) – Christian Children of the Intifadha (PART II)

So, after coming back from Dearborn, Michigan and proceeding to nearly kill myself with drugs and alcohol, I came to my senses and realized it’s a better idea to write for Superchief.tv and go to work. The interview with the Christian Palestinians was really powerful. I drove over from Ann Arbor in my girlfriend’s car, [...]

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/   so, on the way back home from this OKcupid date i don’t really know what ha[[enend but a smell came out of the transmission and all of a suddnen piugs (POLICE) were uPON me in TENLEY/WARD circle wahatever th e fuck you call it … I felt sort of insulted consideridering it’s like [...]

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NOT THE SITE -- The studio/diggs!!

STUDIO/APT almost FINISHED!

HEY FRIENDS. feeling very fortunate today. Within two weeks we will have our privacy to bring you the ARAB NEWS DESK and UNCOMFORTABLY CLOSE w/RAJAI HAKKI in our own STUDIO/APT … One of the tilers, Eddy is working hard, look how great it looks:

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THE ARMED SYRIAN REBELLION is STARTING

A moment of glory … and fear. Much Blood May be Shed. But Soon He will be Dead The End of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Days has Begun [[[NOTE: Syria's been kicked out of the ARAB LEAGUE also, and Turkey is threatening to cut off electricity]]]]]    

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Palestinian Christian Warriors: The Torture of Conflicting Allegiances (PART I)

Dearborn, Michigan. November 11-14th. I jumped out of the cab with giddiness in my stomach. Here I am, I thought, Dearborn, Michigan. Arab-American Central. Across the street behind me was National Hall, and right in front of me: The Arab American National Museum. I was early for the exhibit, so I decided to start meeting [...]

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Next on Superchief.tv

Edward Said, Renowned Palestinian-American Scholar, Columbia Professor, Author We’re doing our homework for you today, kids. Just because we love you here at the Arab News Desk. I’m delving deeper into the history of the Arab Israeli conflict, and then bringing it into the present, interviewing a Palestinian warrior who fought in the Intifada. A [...]

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ARAB NEWS DESK: WATERBOARDING OUR READERS

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A.N.D. Arab Throws Hooker Out Hotel Window

This article made me wanna post a vid from your tireless and irreverent columnist.

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Syrian-Americans Must Show Pride in Their Heritage

  This article was written by my father, celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Ayman R. Hakki (google him). He blogs at http://middleastforum.com/ My father came to this country in the late 1970′s. He immigrated from Damascus, Syria. He started as a resident at Lee High Hospital in Allentown, PA, where I was born. He was making [...]

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Yesterday’s A.N.D.- Herman Cain’s Shady Lobbyist Advisor

Hey Superchief, this was on youtube yesterday but I didn’t post it on AND. We’ve got a new audio intro to A.N.D. —- YAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa@??? CHEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeek it out meeeeaaaaan….. CAIN IS A BIG FAT FUCKIN LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Kiss For Donner Rubenstein – Updated 11:39 PM EST

Recently, someone posted the following on one of my posts (I don’t know this person): Donnerrubenstien: It’s amazing how much you rip on the “system” but that’s exactly what supports parasites like you who live off the government and their families. You’re just another hypocrite douche who doesn’t know who he is or what he [...]

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Arab News Desk $10,000 Studio Construction

Recently, your tireless and irreverent correspondent here at the Arab News Desk accused the Matron of Hakki Manor (AKA Mama) of moving us into “A Box.” But today she informed the team here at A.N.D. that the renovation of the garage shed into the Arab News Desk studio is costing the estate $10,000. Maybe soon [...]

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Liberty Fest 2012 Video Compilation: Interviews and other Shit

Yeah, I know I’m late with this shit, but you’re just gonna have to deal with it. We’ve compensated for [...]

Interview with Nathan Kensinger, Photographer and Urban Explorer

Nathan Kensinger is a photographer, urban explorer, location scout, and director of programming director for the Brooklyn Film Festival. Over the [...]

Artist Interview: ZOO LION Tells Us All About Her Pornography Filled Collages

Zoo Lion is a 19 year old girl who makes collages out of pornography and old issues of national geographic, they are weird and pervy and we kind of love them. We stared at them while asking her about her process, her obsession with porn, her favorite era in photographed fucking, and about a time where she thought she was going to be killed.

(jeez its hard not to just say porn porn porn porn porn porn porn when writing this excerpt.)

Interview with Alfonz Fanon, Our Favorite Communist Indie Rapper

Alfonz Fanon is an independent hip-hop artist and politically concious individual living in Oakland, CA. He just released his debut mixtape, PC Kids in March, 2012. He talked to Superchief about political consciousness in rap, the political situation in Oakland, and Communism.

‘RIOT // CONTROL,’ A Zine on Rioting for Police and Protesters

This anonymous, photocopied zine includes actual scanned pages from police training handbooks on the left side of each spread. On the right are instructions on the same subject for non-cops. It goes into detail with everything from street-level tactics, to making body armor and gas masks, to disabling vehicles.

Lil B Performed at The New Museum (PHOTOS + REVIEW)

There is no words to describe the joy I felt after two days of the Based God. He’s the most charismatic real dude I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. The positivity he exudes is literally infectous.

Liberty Fest Day 2 & 3: Leather, Raw Nerve, Hoax & More (Photos)

Review of Phonographic Arts Liberty Fest Day 2 & 3. Hoax, Raw Nerve, Leather & More

Interview: Jonathan Schipper Ain’t No Technophobe

FEATURED ARTIST: Jonathan Schipper http://oppositionart.com/ (Week 1) Jonathan Schipper is a big fan of destruction, so naturally that’s exactly what [...]

Liberty Fest Day 1: Midnight, Kim Phuc, Cider & More (Photos)

Review of Day 1 Phonographic Arts Liberty Fest: Salvation, Cider, Kim Phuc, Midnight

WE BLEW UP THAT COUCH AT HENNESSY YOUNGMAN’S ART SHOW IN CHELSEA (VIDEO & PHOTOS)

Last week Hennessy Youngman, the Philly/Internet Art Personality (celebrity? yeah, we can give him that with a lil “c”, sure [...]

Superchief.tv and Gold Whistle Present Nicky Troubles “Dream City”

Superchief Records and Gold Whistle have come together to release Nicky Troubles’  album, “Dream City”. Below you can listen to [...]

SUPERCHIEF HAS THE BIGGEST WORK OF ART IN HENNESSY YOUNGMAN’S CHELSEA ART SHOW/BLOCK PARTY TONIGHT!!! (UNLESS YOU CONSIDER THE WHOLE FUCKING SHOW A PIECE OF ART, IN WHICH CASE… HENNY WINS.)

So the charming Hennessy Youngman, AKA: The Dapper Don Draper, AKA: The Curatorial Oracle, AKA: The Bowery’s WU Museum, AKA: Mistah Chillah Than Yo Sistah, has his opening tonight in Chelsea on West 21st btwn 10th and 11th ave at 6pm. ITS GOING TO BE A FUCKING BLOCK PARTY AND SPANKROCK IS DOING A SECRET PERFORMANCE. (we like to capitalize secrets)

oh and our sculpture is the biggest thing in the room…

On the Threshold of the Senses: New Art from Southeast Asia

Review: On the Threshold of the Senses: New Art from Southeast Asia by Niki Schur-Narula Superchief Contributer Tally Beck Contemporary [...]

A TRAVELOGUE OF 1990′S NEW YORK, THROUGH HIP-HOP VIDEOS

Take a trip into the New York of the 1990′s with these Hip-Hop videos shot in the dirty 5 Boroughs. Pop 40′s with the homies, smoke a blunt on the stoop and take a trip back in time; dope stuff.

CULTS OF NEW YORK CITY: OTO (ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS)

In New York I always feel amazed at how many parallel realities and uses of the city as an “arena” are simultaneously happening at once. The guy biking past you might be a weed messenger, the guy sitting on a bench might be an undercover cop, the dude standing right next to you on the train could be on his way to a nudist convention, and the guy at the coffee shop could be a member of a cult or secret society.