ebi amirhosseini
30-Jun-2008 (9 comments)
An urgent message from Prof. Yarshater!!>>>

FAROUT

Rolling rock

Rolling rock

Photo essay: Rock band 127 on stage

by talieshah
30-Jun-2008 (3 comments)

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bajenaghe naghi
30-Jun-2008 (5 comments)
Obama will be seen and accepted as a "khodi".>>>

Iran-Contra's Lasting Legacy to Good Governance

Rosie T.

Iran-Contra's "Lost Chapter"

consortium news / Robert Parry
recommended by Rosie T.
30-Jun-2008 (one comment)
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IDEAS

Sanity vs Insanity

How to win the war against terror?

30-Jun-2008 (16 comments)
First and foremost let’s be clear on the fact that madness and insanity is a global problem and not limited to specific regions or cultures. However, in most places, the insane are almost always products of unfavorable environments, and never products of pre-planning and training. What we have today in the Middle East is a network which finance, plans and organizes development of insane humans for the sole purposes of engaging in terrorist acts against the general population. This process of “producing terrorists” requires a favorable social and cultural groundwork which has been provided by what has evolved as the post-Islam Arab cultures and religion>>>
Amil Imani
30-Jun-2008 (one comment)
اسلاميست های متعصب تک بعدی و ناشکيبا به پيش می رانند و همراه با خشم خويش مردم و فرهنگ های غير اسلامی را مورد حمله قرار می دهند. اين خرده فرهنگ آشوب و مرگ، نه به زنده ابقا می کند و نه به ميراث بی جان بشريت. >>>

Oops! Bush Made Another Boo Boo.

Rosie T.

Amid U.S. Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan

New York Times
recommended by Rosie T.
30-Jun-2008 (one comment)
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samsam1111
30-Jun-2008 (11 comments)
You see! I'm not as lucky as you single guy bastards who have the whole year to party.. but a mere 2 months in summer >>>

What a Court! Ya gotta love 'em...

Rosie T.

Supreme Court Slashes Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Fine to One-Tenth of Original $5 Billion Ruling

Democracy Now / Amy Goodman
recommended by Rosie T.
30-Jun-2008 (one comment)
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Darius Kadivar
30-Jun-2008 (one comment)

The trailer for the next Bond adventure Quantum of Solace has been shown for the first time on the internet.

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THE OFFICE

Love knows no partition

Joe is only four feet away from me, separated by a thin partition, so I hear everything

30-Jun-2008 (2 comments)
Who would have thought? Marylou is in love! The queen of mean, the whistleblower of the year, the spy who hates me, she is in love. The woman, that people would re-route their path in the maze of the office cubicle isles just to avoid crossing her path, is in love. How do I know? Her teeth are whiter, her eyes are brighter, her cheeks are blusher, her lips are more vermilion, and her sagging breasts are perkier. Last week I figured out why there was so much change in her. She was talking to Joe, and I recognized her giggle over the partitions that separate my cubicle from the people who residing on the next isle. No one has ever heard her giggle before as long as anyone can remember. But, the giggle was unmistakably hers, a mimic of her voice, which sounds like a tree slamming into a house on a stormy night>>>

ZOROASTRIAN

Layer after layer

What is the "Avesta"

30-Jun-2008 (3 comments)
The general belief prevailing among common people, Zoroastrians or not, is that the Avesta constitutes the “Sacred Books of the Zoroastrians.” Looking at the sacred scriptures of other living religions, it should be so. Baha’ism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, and Sikhism, have their relevant sacred books. A closer look would, however, reveal that the conscious or unconscious founder of each religion or order had his or her inspired or thought-out message conveyed in person. Later the successors added much around the nucleus of the founding message and consequently produced a collection of writings, some of them in a different dialect or language>>>

STORY

کارت منزلت

همه دور مش صفر جمع شده بودند. کسی او را نمی شناخت

30-Jun-2008 (4 comments)
صفر پناهی آموزگار بازنشسته بعد از 30 سال تدریس ، سرانجام با اصرار زنش رفت و کارت منزلت گرفت. همکاران سابقش وقتی در پارک محل او را می دیدند چنان از مزایای کارت منزلت که می توانی با آن مجانی سوار اتوبوس های شرکت واحد و یا مترو بشوی حرف می زدند که انگار به قول فرانسوی ها" Pass Par tout" گیرشان آمده و با آن می توانند به هر جائی خواستند سرک بکشند. در اداره بازنشستگی آموزش و پرورش، اغلب کارمندان از معلمان سابق بودند که حالا بد تر از مش صفر بالای 70 سال داشتند. بیشترشان دارای سمعک و عینک بودند و وقتی می خواستند فرمی را پر کنند، گوینده باید در گوششان داد می کشید.مش صفر پرسان پرسان مسئول صدور کارت منزلت را پیدا کرد. وقتی مقابل صندلی او نشست ، هر دو دقایقی به قیافه همدیگر زل زدند. >>>

Batebi has reached freedom

Fred

The Economist cover

VOA Persian
recommended by Fred
30-Jun-2008 (8 comments)
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Faramarz_Fateh
30-Jun-2008 (3 comments)
The 50% increase of energy prices has created a very bad economic situation in the U.S. and I guess in the entire world for that matter>>>