VIEW
The question is not whether to appease Iran or not -- but whether Iran is appeasable
by Tony Blankley
Neoconservatives, Reaganites and other militarily assertive factions in the United States are sometimes accused of thinking it is always 1938 (Britain's appeasement of Hitler at Munich) -- that there is always a Hitler-like aggressor being appeased and about to drag the world into conflict. There is sometimes merit in that charge.
Knowledge of history can be as much a snare as a guide -- if it is wrapped in a dogma that distorts the current facts to match the preferred historic lesson
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Abdul Baha says: “He is a true Baha’i who strives by day and by night to progress along
the path of human endeavor, whose cherished desire is to live and act as to enrich and illumine the world;..."
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PRISONER
Activist Shiva Nazar-Ahari remains in prison
by Kalameh
Shiva Nazar-Ahari’s family is gravely concerned about the fact that her court date has not yet been scheduled despite the fact that she has been in temporary detention for nearly a year. Shiva is a journalist, human rights defender and women’s rights activist. A court hearing had been scheduled in June but was postponed for unknown reasons. Shiva is currently being held in the women’s ward at Evin prison. This member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters has spent over 100 days in solitary confinement
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How many wrongs would make a right?
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Headlines that caught my attention...
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I have lost my appetite for sweets
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People are more likely to defend repressive systems that they think are hard to get out of.
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POETRY
by Shadi Angelina Bazeghi
I have come to measure the speed
of my lost lover's madness.
-Remember him so much
that I am forgotten
Remember him so much, Ophelia,
that the rest have become a myth.
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اگر شما هم معتقديد که ايران هيچ راهی جز انحلال حکومت اسلامی، لغو قانون اساسی آن، و برقراری يک حکومت ملی سکولار بر اساس اعلاميهء جهانی حقوق بشر ندارد، جای شما در ميان ما است
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در پی هنرنمایی جمعی از شعرا در حضور سید علی خامنهای
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