John Am
05-Jan-2009 (6 comments)

Iranian man comes to the conclusion that there is no catcher in the rye. 

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RALLY

Londoners for Palestine

Londoners for Palestine

Photo essay: Largest march calling for ceasefire in Gaza

by Kourosh Salehi
04-Jan-2009 (15 comments)

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LET THEM IN!

Shirin Vazin

ICRC says Israel blocks its medical team into Gaza

Xinhua
recommended by Shirin Vazin
04-Jan-2009
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No! Really???

Q

Analysis: US Media Coverage Of Gaza Invasion Largely Biased Towards Israel

Editor and Publisher / Greg Mitchell
recommended by Q
04-Jan-2009 (one comment)
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ebi amirhosseini
04-Jan-2009 (6 comments)
ایرانیان از دیر باز با نفت و گاز آشنا بودند و در گذشته های باستانی این سرزمین نیز نشانه های فراوانی از شناخت نفت و خصوصا  قیر و کاربرد این مواد به چشم می خورد >>>

IDEAS

Jews Own America

A reflection on prejudice

04-Jan-2009 (29 comments)
Jews rule America. America may be a Christian country, but the Jews own it. They own all major banks, control the factories and businesses, and run the stock markets. You name it, and the Jews own or run it. The Jews are out to rule the world. They do it by helping each other and show no mercy to non-Jews. With those thoughts deeply drilled in me before leaving Iran for America, imagine my shock as a total stranger Iranian Jew came to my cousin Jamshid and I in the lobby of the YMCA and asked us for help. Ask us two Iranian non-Jewish students to help him with work? We ourselves were desperate trying to find work. And here I was told how Jews own America and how they help their own. What about this guy? Why don’t they help him? Why would he have to come to us for help? >>>
Nkminea
04-Jan-2009
One last look to the terrible year of 2008 >>>

ECONOMY

Cause and effect (2)

Autocratic institutional settings, whether sanctioned by religion or not, are counterproductive

04-Jan-2009 (5 comments)
One of the problems that is more unique to Moslem countries is what you call a segregated labor force; very low Labor Force Participation Rate, or LFPR, for female population and relatively high rate for male. In modern era, economic progress is not possible without dynamic participation of women. While women constitute almost one half of their population, there is no comprehensive and reliable data about female employment and the gainful participation of women in labor force for Moslem countries. In many of them, women are openly barred from playing an active social or economic role or working in certain fields because of religious prohibition or because those fields are traditionally reserved for men only. Some countries like Saudi Arabia have specific legislations about limits and restrictions for female employment>>>
bahram9821
04-Jan-2009
Men Are Just Happier People-- What do you expect from such simple creatures? >>>

What do you call this?

Iranian Reader

Don't pity the Palestinians

ynetnew.com / Adi Dvir
recommended by Iranian Reader
04-Jan-2009 (6 comments)
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2009

Live with it

This is it, folks, this is the life we inherited

04-Jan-2009 (4 comments)
As long as we are alive (and alas, many are not), and we still have a functioning mind and heart, and good friends to remind us of that, we can still live a worthy life: Simply absorb the meaning of the characters inscribed on the Tsukubai (water basin) behind the Rock Garden in at the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto: "I learn to be content". These five words can be understood in different ways, but when I came across them in January, I realized that we, Iranians, got it all wrong when we followed the carpe diem philosophy of Khayyam, when he claimed, a wine cup in one hand and the tresses of his beloved in the other:>>>
Darius Kadivar
04-Jan-2009 (one comment)
Yasser Arafat receives the Herald of the MKO by its leader Massoud Rajavi. (year ?) And footage of Arafat Meeting with MKO leaders Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. >>>
Darius Kadivar
04-Jan-2009 (one comment)
Yasser Arafat PLO's Chairman was the first foreign leader to visit Tehran after Khomeini seized power in 1979>>>