While American tax payers subsidize Israelis

Shah Ghollam

One in nine Americans uses food stamps

effedieffe / effedieffe
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30-Aug-2009
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IRANIANS

Poseurs or Revolutionaries?

The worse thing that has happened these thirty years is that Iranians have become callous

30-Aug-2009 (88 comments)
One middle aged man, came back recently from Iran, I saw him at the July 25th protest here in our town where less people showed up than at my friend’s birthday party. Like many others that day he was wearing a cap, big sunglasses and scarf to hide his face, he stood way back and did not repeat any chants or slogans, he boasted to me of chasing plain clothes men on motorbikes during the recent protests in Iran. I thought to myself: how can this guy, who worked for the foreign ministry under the Shah, who covers himself so much here in the safety of Place Massena, have had the courage to go chasing motor-biker bassijis in Tehran?>>>

ONLINE

چه کسی از فیس بوک می ترسد؟

زندگی سیاسی و اجتماعی ما، چه این اعتراضات ادامه بیابد یا به زیرزمین کشیده شود، بدون فیس بوک، یوتیوب و تویتر قابل تصور نیست

30-Aug-2009
با اینکه فیس بوک هیچ گاه شمار اعضایش را در یک کشور اعلام نمی کند اما دو قرینه نشان می دهدکه این سایت در طول بهار 88 محبوب ترین سایت ایرانیان در داخل کشور بوده است، نخست انتشار گزارشی از تعاملات جهانی در شبکه فیس بوک که در مقایسه با فصل مشابه در سال قبل نشان دهنده رشد شگفت انگیز استقبال از فیس بوک در ایران بود... اما این سوال که چرا ناگهان مسئولان سانسور در ایران که در همان حال حتی از فیلتر کردن وبلاگ هایی که کمترین نشانه اعتراض در آن موجود بود نیز نمی گذشتند، سایتهایی چون فیس بوک و یوتیوب را آزاد کردند؟ برای پاسخ به این سوال ابتدا نشانه هایی از استفاده عوامل اطلاعاتی حکومت برای ردیابی، رصد و مانیتورینگ نیروهای شاخص مخالف یا روزنامه نگاران یافت شد >>>
bubbly
30-Aug-2009
Bozo, my dog has always been an arch enemy of my cat Billo. But there have been subtle changes in his attitude recently>>>
Souri
30-Aug-2009 (one comment)
Some nostlgic videos. >>>
Islam goes to Hell .
30-Aug-2009
Wish to see justice done in Iran, this picture must bring hope to any Persian to see justice done one say soon i hope>>>

PERCEPTIONS

Middle Eastern Men

Does every Middle Eastern man have to be a wife beater in their stories?

30-Aug-2009 (3 comments)
On one of my recent trips to the Middle East, a friend and a business associate, Hesam, invited me over to his house for dinner. I eagerly accepted. The dinner was plentiful, the host and the hostess extremely gracious, and as the tradition goes, some relatives, including Hesam's parents and his wife’s two sisters and their husbands, were also present. Everyone was dressed in western-style clothing except my host, who was wearing a long while dishdasha. The house was sumptuously furnished with European sofas and chairs, artworks from the surrounding Gulf countries, expensive Persian rugs, and lavish, beautiful curtains, which dressed the bay windows that faced the Persian Gulf across the street>>>
jimzbund
30-Aug-2009 (167 comments)
More reason at Evin >>>

MOTHER

Empty nest

Where's my humor when I need it the most?

30-Aug-2009 (2 comments)
Humor and practicality have been my safety net through life’s ups and downs, especially the downs. Years ago, I used my imaginative mind to change those wasted summers of youth at my father’s farms into an education. While my older sister nagged incessantly about the unfairness of missing the city fun, I took the three months of life in Abbas Abad as a learning experience and tried my hands on a few native skills: field work, tending to livestock and weaving baskets. During school, whenever I came across a subject too difficult to memorize, I made lyrics out of such subjects as the table of elements, names of fossils, or human nerve passages>>>

POETRY

A sight for granted, never...
30-Aug-2009
To unlock the lock, I must endure this pain,
To harness the journey’s craft, I must negotiate with
The stones on this path,
To kill the monsters, I must be willing to die first
And then watch how my ashes shall rise against
Another day's sunrise. >>>
jimzbund
30-Aug-2009 (3 comments)
پارسی را پاس داریم >>>

POETRY

كودتاي مخملي كار من است
30-Aug-2009 (5 comments)
در كمال صحت و عقل و شعور
خالي از هرگونه جبر و ضرب و زور

مي نمايم نزد مردم اعتراف
تا شوم از درد وجدانم معاف

عامل اخراج آدم از بهشت
كشتن هابيل وصدها كار زشت >>>

US Dominance Coming to an End ?

k1s1000

Hatoyama vows distance from US-style capitalism

presstv
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30-Aug-2009 (3 comments)
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Troubles mount for Ahmadinejad

FG

Isolated, weak and delusional as ever

Tehran Bureau / Muhammed Sahimi
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30-Aug-2009 (3 comments)
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Mahmoud at majles-- no plans but with bodyguards

Majid Zahrai
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30-Aug-2009
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