Moorche
28-Feb-2009 (14 comments)
قدر دانی و تجلیل از شاعر خوبمان...اقای منوچهر عوض نیا! >>>
rosie is roxy is roshan
28-Feb-2009 (13 comments)

Oh, I don't know, must be because Mahmood looked so cute with that African necklace on the homepage that I have Africa on miy mind.

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Azadeh Azad
28-Feb-2009 (35 comments)
A tribute to the Birthday Boy of the first week of March! >>>

Hmmm...

Ostaad

The Shah and the Marja's Power Struggle

asharq alawsat / Manal Lutfi
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28-Feb-2009
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FLIGHT

Pigeon Point

Pigeon Point

Photo essay: Flying over Half Moon Bay

by Payam M
28-Feb-2009 (8 comments)

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Israeli mullahs--why not?

rosie is roxy is roshan

'Sinful' city buses stoned by ultra-Orthodox Jews

the independent
28-Feb-2009 (20 comments)
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One quarter million hungry, desperate

rosie is roxy is roshan

Afghanistan: humanitarian crisis in freezing weather

amnesty international
28-Feb-2009 (4 comments)
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Orang Gholikhani
28-Feb-2009 (4 comments)
هذیان>>>

Mitt Romney for President??

capt_ayhab

Romney picked as 2012 GOP front-runner

CNN / Peter Hamby, Kristi Keck, Mark Preston .
recommended by capt_ayhab
28-Feb-2009 (one comment)
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Darius Kadivar
28-Feb-2009
CONFIDENTIAL Magazine writes "THE SHAH DID HER WRONG!".  KING OF IRAN WAS ROMANCING THE PRESENT MRS. BRUCE CABOT ALL OVER EUROPE, EVERYBODY WAS ASKING… DID SHE GIVE HIM THE HEIR? (circa 1955) >>>
sobh
28-Feb-2009
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. >>>

Putting lipstick on a pig

Ostaad

Lieberman going soft on Iran?

ynetnews.com / Yitzhak Benhorin
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28-Feb-2009 (6 comments)
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Dangers Ahead

Obama, Iran and Israel

28-Feb-2009 (19 comments)
In conversations with some of my friends in Iran, I find myself bewildered by the extent of their credulity and naiveté about the whole Obama fanfare. Much to my dismay, I find that they are not alone in this. After eight years of suffering at the hand of George Bush’s America, a large majority of the people around the world have psyched themselves into believing that Obama is a qualitatively different president, and that a new era is about to begin in the U.S. under his leadership. It seems to me that a lot of people around the world, especially the younger generation in the developing countries, have become intoxicated -- or to put it bluntly, duped -- by the Obama euphoria>>>

PAHLAVI

The ‘Fun’ Hoveida Years

The Shah channelled billions into massive military purchases and grandiose projects

28-Feb-2009 (34 comments)
During the great oil boom of the 1970’s, the irrational exuberance of the Iranian upper classes and the unquenchable greed of the royalty played havoc with the domestic economy. Hoveida’s half-baked plans for hasty modernization and the Shah’s expensive upgrades for the army, created a number of economical and social dislocations. That deluge of projects, which were unnaturally fuelled by the soaring oil prices, played havoc with the fledging Iranian economy and infrastructure; creating cyclic booms and busts, deficiencies and speculations, inflation and hoarding>>>

SECULARISM

 جامعهء مدنی يا جامعهء سکولار؟

ضرورت برقراری سکولاريسم بعنوان پيش شرط رسيدن به جامعهء مدنی

28-Feb-2009 (8 comments)
در پی حدوث انقلاب 57 و تبديل شدن حاکميت ايران به استبداد مطلقهء مذهبی و برقراری سلطهء شرع بر جامعه، و ظاهراٌ بمنظور کوشش برای درک موانع رشد دموکراسی در ايران، يکی از مفهوم های کهن علم سياست که در دههء دوم انقلاب بشدت مطرح شده و مورد بحث متفکران ايرانی قرار گرفت مفهوم «جامعهء مدنی» بود. ما اوج سلطء فکری اين «گفتمان» را در انتخابات دوم خرداد 1376 و بقدرت رسيدن «اصلاح طلبان خودی» مشاهده کرديم. در واقع، دههء 1370 را می توان دههء پيدايش مفهوم سحرآميزی به نام «جامعهء مدنی» دانست که قرار بود پاسخگوی همهء حرمان ها و شکست ها و براندازندهء همهء موانع استقرار دموکراسی باشد. >>>