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Apocalyptic Press

From an email distributed on the Internet titled “When the end of the world arrives how will the media report it?” USA Today: WE'RE DEAD

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Scent of a brick

By Haeedeh Fattaey Kansas City, Kansas I have had a passion for gardens all my life. I think it may be because it gives me

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Just… Forget it!

Just… forget it! Back in 1992 the following false news story was posted anonymously on the Iranian newsgroup SCI. The article was widely distributed among

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Iran’s new secret weapon

Iran's new secret weapon JAMES DEFENCE WEAKLY Published by James Misinformation Group Ltd, Knightsburr Cottage, 529 Drearyspot Lane, Queensbottom, Oxnerd, UR1 EZ1, YUK By Gaz

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Oh (Big) Brother!

From a letter sent in 1949 by George Orwell to Celia Kirwan of the British Secret Service's Information Research Department. In a meeting a few

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Articles

Kodam Farsi? (Persian) A council promoting the Persian language can't write proper Persian. Behzad Ahandoust Just… Forget it! A “news” item about Nike's aborted marketing

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Persia, Iowa

I just packed and left. When I moved to New York four years ago I thought I had finally found a city I could call

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The bridge generation

From Nersi Ramazan-Nia's letter in January 1996 to his son Nima, who is a college freshman at the University of California, Santa Cruiz. Pesar joonam,

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Bill Clinton all the way?

On November 4, 1996, one day before the U.S. presidential election, subscribers to THE IRANIAN TIMES, an email service with nearly 1,000 members, were asked

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The Persian Gulf debate

An electronic image map of the Persian Gulf. Courtesy Mississippi State University publications. On Noveber 21, 1996 a subscriber to THE IRANIAN Bulletin suggested that

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Features

Khoshhalam keh zendeh-am (Persian) An interview with Shahrnoush Parsipour. J. Javid The Persian Gulf debate A major airline corrects its inflight map; questions linger. Kababometers

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Letter from America

An email written by Sheila Mostafavi, 13, of Laguna Hills, California, in response to an email from Mahdiyeh Javid, 14, from Tehran, asking for pen

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