Archive - Dec 2007

Warped logic

of the NIEThe ink is dry on the 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear capabilities. And yet the Bush Administration keeps watering down its message. One official after another has been going around calling Iran still dangerous and still a threat and still deserving of greater sanctions! So, I ask, per the line in David Letterman’s shtick, “NIE: Is this anything?” It is something alright: It is a first rate exercise in obfuscation: perhaps, it is designed to facilitate a military strike on Iran by allowing the elaboration of and attention to other reasons for continued enmity toward or possibly even attacking Iran >>>

Feel good foods

Even before the Christmas period falls upon us, we are already recovering from the holiday aftermath of Thanksgiving. Greed has once again, gotten the better of us and some of us are paying the price in the form of fatigue, sluggishness and weight gain. So what on earth are we supposed to do when we haven’t yet reached the ‘Mother’ of all holidays, Christmas? Well, I don’t know about you, but barely a week into December and I’m feeling lethargic, heavier and generally not at my peak. In anticipation of the Christmas season, I have decided to eat sensibly to prevent any needless weight gain even before the Christmas and New Year is upon us. >>>

Touched by an Angel

The pain we are all feeling is real and devastating. It is true that our dear little Lauren is finally free of pain. Her suffering is finally over. How we all wish her life story would not have ended here prematurely, two months short of her 14th birthday. This is so unbelievably unfair. Lauren was denied the chance to fully experience life. Just as she was blossoming as an intelligent, beautiful young lady, her body was viciously attacked for the third time by Cancer, one of the worst enemies of the mankind>>>

Living With "Uncertainty"

"Self Explanatory"

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War on error

Lounging contentedly on the bed in her apartment some thirty-five stories directly above the FDR, Roxana looks at me standing over her and proclaims, "Interview me," as though she were Julia Roberts promoting her next blockbuster. I know this is going to be difficult. I have known Roxana for over eight years now. We met in college at Wesleyan when she was a senior and I was a freshman, and within days, we were inseparable. She was the only other Iranian girl I had heard of at Wesleyan, and she seemed to know everything and everyone there was to know there. We were both loud,opinionated, sarcastic, and naive.We were also both virgins and agreed that men were useful almost solely for opening unyielding jars of pickles and hooking up electronic equipment>>>

Day 52

With the Christmas season in full swing and the day rapidly approaching, I thought it might be a good idea to recollect on a Christmas past. The date was December 25, 1979. The location was Tehran, the American embassy, a building on the grounds known as the Mushroom Inn. This was day 52 of the global shift known as the hostage crisis. “Hello, my name is Joseph Subic Jr. I am a Sergeant in the Marine Corp. I would like to begin my statement with the personal. I traveled this country before the embassy takeover. I saw different towns, different villages. I saw a way of life>>>

The only American male journalist with Balls.

Keithe Olberman of MSNBC rips a new one for G.W. Bush.

Check out www.truthout............

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تلفنى از زندان

مى خواهم دست بر روى قرآن بگذارم و براى پدر مزدك سوگند ياد كنم كه من قاتل دوست و همكلاسى ام نيستم >>>

Amnesty's urgent call to save Ali Mahin-Torabi

RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible: >>>

Comprehensive History of THE JEWS OF IRAN

Book review>>>

Persepolis & Ratatouille tie for award

Brad Bird's "Ratatouille," from Disney/Pixar, tied with Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis," for LA CRITICS prize.

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من يا ديوار، ديوار يا من

تا آنشب كه خواب ديدم. خواب آنروزها كه اين ديوار نبود آنروزها كه من ﭙسر بچه ای بودم و توﭖ فوتبال و بچه های كوچه دلخوشی بزرگ زندگی من بودند.>>>

Dignity and justice for all

December 10 we not only celebrated Human Rights Day, but also the launch of the year long campaign leading to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The theme for 2008, the year long campaign is “Dignity and justice for all of us”. As we reflect today, there are many reasons to celebrate how far human community has come since 1948, in it’s journey of protecting and ensuring fundamental freedoms for each member of human race. The life of the declaration, conceived as an outcome of the soul of a world severely injured by the horrors of the Second World War has been a very dynamic life.>>>

غزل -١

جهان را کند مهر درونٍ سینه بند

چه کوهها وچَرَا چوپان و گوسفند

شکرِ خداتعالی که چشمم نمی رسد

سرِ شانه مار هستند که دِلم راگزند

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