Archive - Dec 16, 2009

This made me very Happy today - I'm taking Belly Dancing!

Turkish band - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood>>>

نامه عمر به يزدگرد ۳ و پاسخ يزدگرد به آن

متن ترجمه نامه عمر خليفه دوم به يزدگرد سوم ساساني و پاسخ يزدگرد به عمر. نسخه اصلي اين نامه ها در موزه لندن نگهداري مي شود>>>

Some in Congress Get Smart on Iran

Just as most of Congress is stuck in the narrow mindset of draconian sanctions, two new bills have been introduced that offer a new way forward on Iran>>>

طرح‌های سرکوب

به نظر می‌رسد که در واکنش به مقاومت مردم و جنبش سبز، حاکمیت طرح یک تصفیه بزرگ را در آستانه ماه محرم در دستور کار خود قرار داده است. تارنمای «کلمه» وابسته به آقای موسوی هشدار داده که «اتفاقی در پیش است» و زمزمه‌های دستگیری او و خاتمی و کروبی در روزهای اخیر شدت یافته است. ولی دامنه این تصفیه، اگر واقعیت داشته باشد، ظاهرا قرار نیست به آنان ختم شود و ممکن است حتا افرادی مانند هاشمی رفسنجانی را نیز در بر گیرد. تبلیغاتی که این روزها علیه رفسنجانی به راه افتاده می‌تواند به منظور زمینه‌سازی این امر صورت گرفته باشد>>>

Us against them

While I would agree that the regime has successfully transitioned from a hybrid authoritarian state to one that more closely resembles unmitigated totalitarianism, the regime remains inherently at odds with itself. The paradox of the state, its religious and republican elements, has ultimately hastened increased state fragmentation and lead to a crisis of identity. While the security apparatus of the state has undoubtedly expanded its grip on society, we are increasingly witness to fissures among elite politicians who disagree as to the best course forward>>>

Obama's War and Peace

No aggressor and occupying military force, such as the US-NATO armies in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan can justify and moralize its naked crimes against the peoples and institutions of those countries by labeling its barbarous acts of war and oppression as humanitarian and benevolent. The imperialist nature of the U.S. wars in the Middle East and South Asia region is the main reason that Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech on December 10 drew praises from such conservative and reactionary warmongers as former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich>>>

جنبش سبز و مسائل خارجی

گفتگو با داریوش سجّادی >>>

Khomeini's picture has been getting torn up and binned since day one!

Think about it, with all those demonstrations, do you honestly think that those thousands of pictures have not ended up in street gutters, walked over or ended up in the bin? >>>