Mohammad Ilyas
07-Jan-2008 (one comment)

قوۀ جوهری وگروههائ اسلام

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Darius Kadivar
07-Jan-2008 (14 comments)
Nobel Winner Slams Rising Executions >>>
Jahanshah Javid
07-Jan-2008 (12 comments)
That video was NOT about YOU (it was about HER!)>>>
alimostofi
07-Jan-2008 (22 comments)
Will it get worse?>>>
alimostofi
07-Jan-2008
For the Israelis.>>>
Jahanshah Rashidian
07-Jan-2008 (22 comments)

L'amputation est une punition de la charia.

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Darius Kadivar
07-Jan-2008

Lara Fabian & Michel Fugain - Je n'aurai pas le temps

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hamidbak
06-Jan-2008 (4 comments)
A friend was over and we were watchng George Carlin's sketches in youtube. I had to write this one down. >>>

CHEERS

New Year's Eve in L.A.

New Year's Eve in L.A.

Photo essay

by kfravon
06-Jan-2008 (6 comments)

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MOVIES

YeeHa! for covert action

Review: "Charlie Wilson's war"

06-Jan-2008 (5 comments)
The film starring Tom Hanks as Charlie Wilson, portrays the brash action by a Senator who raised as a child frightened of imminent attack by the Soviet Union during the nuclear Cold War era (one of the damaging effects of "duck and cover" ad campaigns on this generation), takes it upon himself to push his counterpart buddy "idealists" in the CIA to covertly support the Afghan rebels to fight the Soviet Union with training and equipment. This is successfully spun as a heroic tale of Yankee ingenuity and dogged American determination. What bothers me about this kind of storytelling is that it tidily evades the real problems that this kind of illegal covert action leaves in it's wake>>>

WOMEN

Right time, right strategy

Interview with women's rights activist Soheila Vahdati

06-Jan-2008 (19 comments)
Vahdati: My contact with Iranian women activists goes back to 2003, when I started writing for Women in Iran. The website was founded by Shadi Sadr and a group of women journalists and activists (womeniniran.net). Although it started mainly as a women’s news site it had other sections such as “Tajrobeh haye zananeh” (Womanly Experiences) which was my favorite section and I started writing for it. At the time Faezeh Tabatabaei was in charge of the column and encouraged me to continue writing. Soon, I started writing articles for the site as well>>>

IDEAS

Ax the tax

Voting for anyone with courage to reform the tax system

06-Jan-2008 (10 comments)
I am going to pay some taxes in January about which I've been having nightmares for a couple of months already. Then I found out that Mike Huckabee proposes to abolish the IRS, in favour of CONSUMPTION TAX!! When I heard this I thought it was a joke, but it is actually true. And Mike Huckabee has just won the Republican elections in Iowa. Great news! I hope he wins'em all and becomes president. I'm not very sure about a FLAT consumption tax, but I am definitely in favour of abolishing income and all other similar taxes>>>

POETRY

Mom, I have dreamt his Release
06-Jan-2008
Dreams were my passion, my solitude
Passing of the day was precious as it brought me glorious black
Has it been too long I wonder,
Will I ever return to that far away land?
Would I remember how to step off a window and not fall
But soar, so softly, so crisply…
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aghayeFarsi
06-Jan-2008 (5 comments)

For the good ones out there..

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alimostofi
06-Jan-2008
Perverse at best.>>>