Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has told The Mideast Beast that suicide bombers should not accept a reopening of the economy and instead blow themselves up in protest. “We have this discussion about ‘going back’ or ‘reopening’ — I think a lot of people should just say, ‘No, we’re not going back to that. We’re not going back to working 70-hour weeks...
In 2019, Saudi Arabia executed a record number 184 people in the desert kingdom, only surpassed by Iran and China, according to a recent Amnesty International report. To counter the bad image that slicing and dicing gives Saudi Arabia, the kingdom recently decided to fast-forward their penal code from the Early Middle Ages to the Late Middle Ages by exempting...
Celebrities on coronavirus lockdown are proposing that the world “take a week of quarantine” every year to commemorate the “scary and unsettling” time they went through and the unique insights it has given them. “I think that everyone should take a week of quarantine every year just to remember this time,” said British actor Idris Elba, who said he and his wife...
An Iranian expert in “Islamic medicine”, Mehdi Sabili, has urged Iranians to drink camel urine, claiming it can cure lung diseases, asthma, and even coronavirus, according to Al-Arabiya, which posted a video of the man, which went viral recently on Instagram,. Sabili is not just some nobody; he is the head of the “scientific-educational association of Imam Sadegh’s medicine” in...
Yemen, the ever-innovative fount of radical solutions to serious world problems, is making headlines again, as its Houthi-rebels, who are fighting Yemen’s government, have announced how they intend to fight Covid-19. Yemen recently reported its first case of Coronavirus. The Mideast Beast, eager to learn what the Yemenite rebels from the country of unsurpassed medical and technical innovation would have...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s marriage may be heading towards an abrupt end, as the royal couple’s financial troubles begin to pile up. According to Omid Scobie, an expert on the British royals, Harry and Meghan “face a very tough” financial future, as their ‘Megxit’ from the British royal family has coincided with the international financial crisis caused by Covid-19....
Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the Democratic presidential race, leaving Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic candidate. “While we are winning the ideological battle and while we are winning the support of so many young people and working people throughout the country, I have concluded that this battle for the Democratic nomination will not be successful. And that is...
The Clintons recently donated 400 pizzas to New York hospitals as a gesture to the medical staffs there fighting Covid-19. Several nurses and doctors, however, said that the gesture may not have been what it looked like. “There was a note inside the pizza, signed by Bill Clinton” one nurse said, “It was a desperate call for help, no doubt....
The novel coronavirus has reached most countries, but a few are still without SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. One of them is Yemen, the poorest Arab country in the world, and one wrecked by years of bloody conflict. “There is no question that we are dealing with an egregious example of the meanest form of racism”, Yemen’s Prime Minister,...
Omar Barghouti, the founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel (BDS) said on Sunday that if Israel comes up with a vaccine against coronavirus, it will be kosher for boycotters to use it. “Up until now, we have not been in a situation where we need Israel urgently and no one else can save us but Israel”,...
Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, delivered breaking news on Friday when he tweeted that Lady Gaga had found the time to talk to him recently about her recent work on peacemaking in the Middle East. “@ladygaga I am so touched that you are spending this moment in your bored #stayathome routine to try and bring peace to the...
After refusing to receive medicine to fight the coronavirus from both the US and from Sweden, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei explained to The Mideast Beast why he believes the two nations are in cahoots. “Look at the world right now”, said Khamenei, “the streets are empty everywhere. Everything is closed. No cars, no shops, no souks, no nothing. Broadway?...
Finland has been named happiest country in the world in the yearly World Happiness Report. The prize for the most miserable nation was taken by Afghanistan, a country so extremely democratic that it elected two presidents in its last presidential elections. The Mideast Beast first spoke to President Abdullah Abdullah about Afghanistan’s poor ranking. “I highly question the way that...
Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, is expecting a sudden economic boom after the Netherlands announced that it was closing down its marijuana “coffee shops” in an attempt to contain the spread of coronavirus. Panicked Dutch people immediately queued up to buy weed, but most of them went home empty-handed as buyers showed little concerns for the needs...
An Iranian cleric, Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, who is 93 years old, has decreed that it’s okay to use a vaccine against novel coronavirus made by Zionists if ‘there’s no substitute’. As late as Wednesday, however, the ayatollah had said, “It is not permissible to buy and sell from Zionists and Israel”. The Mideast Beast caught up with the...
Bernie Sanders’ chances of becoming the Democratic nominee for president are shrinking fast after Super Tuesday II. The Mideast Beast caught up with the 78-year-old senator. “I just don’t get it” said Sanders. “There is nothing I didn’t do to win the nomination. I started on high dosage melanin injections and got scheduled in for sex reassignment surgery to transition...
Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, recently gave a speech in Detroit in which he called the Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi his “brothers”. “Mr. Trump killed my brother Qassem Soleimani. Mrs. Clinton killed my other brother Muammar Qaddafi,” Farrakhan said. The Mideast Beast sat down with US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
After Joe Biden’s win in South Carolina, The Mideast Beast sat down with Biden at his campaign headquarters for a talk about his visions for the US presidency if elected. “Well for starters”, said Biden, “I will save the remaining 150 million Americans who haven’t been killed by gun violence since 2007. We have a real crisis on our hands...
Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, recently gave a speech in Detroit in which he called the Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi his “brothers”. “Mr. Trump killed my brother Qassem Soleimani. Mrs. Clinton killed my other brother Muammar Qaddafi,” Farrakhan said. The Mideast Beast sat down with US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
Bernie Sanders, who recently defended Fidel Castro’s Cuba, sat down with The Mideast Beast at one of his three homes, for a conversation about things that aren’t all bad. “I always like to keep an open mind and look at the bright side of every genocidal totalitarian regime,” Bernie told The Mideast Beast, as he lovingly stroked his cat Milosevic....
