KANGAROO COURTS!

mostaghel

Guilty as Ordered

new york times
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07-Aug-2008
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ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT GITMO ?

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China on Bush: Don't interfere in our affairs

AP
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07-Aug-2008
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mihanyar
07-Aug-2008 (4 comments)
یادی از فریدون فرخزاد، یک انسان، یک میهن پرست با لبخند ونگاهی‌ مهربان و آزاده نگر>>>

The Empire Strikes Back ... Again

Darius Kadivar

Lucas on Star Wars animation

bbc
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07-Aug-2008
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Health

azaadeh

All U.S. adults could be overweight in 40 years

Reuters / Amy Norton
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06-Aug-2008
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بمناسبت روز خبر نگار

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rfi / بیژن برهمندی
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06-Aug-2008
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AmirAshkan Pishroo
06-Aug-2008 (one comment)
Two American thinkers have forcefully argued for sending a private army comprised of mercenaries, such as Blackwater, to stop the killing in Darfur... >>>

Cold Water ! (on whose head?)

mostaghel

Russia Asks That Iran Be Given More Time

Washington Post
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06-Aug-2008 (one comment)
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javaneh29
06-Aug-2008 (27 comments)
This a 300 hundred year old Iranian recipe...... I sure it take a lot more than this dish to make a mollah faint these days. >>>

EUROPE

The last brave intellectual

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the embodiment of the universal freedom of speech

06-Aug-2008 (66 comments)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s life is a narrative of sexual repression and gradual emancipation. She became who she is today (Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world) by redescribing Islam and reacting against radical Muslims - real live people whom she had met in the flesh, not in the book. “I left the world of faith, of genital cutting and marriage for the world of reason and sexual emancipation. After making this voyage I know that one of these two worlds is simply better than the other. Not for its gaudy gadgetry, but for its fundamental values”, Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote in her autobiography "Infidel">>>

محمود چاخان

IRANIANS

The Reed flute

We all look for a magical formula for the whole Iranian problem

06-Aug-2008 (8 comments)
It was a summer day year 2000(I think it was 2000). I was in New York City to visit some relatives and enjoyed the stay. A cousin of mine who was interested in Sufism told me about a Rumi conference that was going to be held in the Columbia University. I have had read little about Rumi and remembered some famous lines of his poetry and his love for Shams Tabrizi, but I really did not know so much about him. Also, the only thing about sufism I knew was the paintings of old dervishes with their axe. Back at my parental home we used to have a very elegant copy of the Omar Khayyams Rubaiyat. I enjoyed reading its poems so much that I made my high school special assignment about Khayyam>>>

COMEDY

Fifty Ways To Kill Your Lover

The Divine and not so divine violence

06-Aug-2008 (one comment)
In the beginning was the word, says the Book, but which word and did a sentence follow, and was it funny or all too serious, like Him? You see, this is the question that sort of attacked me one day out of nowhere and, yet, He kept evading my question, so after a while, when I was starting to think vacation and how I should busy myself, being the most workaholic soul in the entire universe, I said to myself: I can be an author! He laughed at me of course and mocked me and eventually we made the bet -- that I would prove my literary skills by getting published by a respectable publisher and, searching the directory, we settled on you, that is why I am here>>>
IRANdokht
06-Aug-2008 (210 comments)
In the memory of my hero: Dr Shapour Bakhtiar 1914-1991 >>>

LOVE

سوژه ساعت هشت و چهل

روز ها گذشت و مرد هر روز عاشق تر شد و دختر نیز بی قرار

06-Aug-2008 (5 comments)
یک روز یک مردعکاس که برای یافتن سوژه ای به باغ ملی رفته بود. دختری را دید که از در اصلی باغ داشت می آمد با قد متوسط و موهایی مشکی و شلوارکی سیاه با پیراهنی صورتی پر رنگ و کفش پاشنه بلندی به پا و کیف کوچکی به دست. مرد عکاس از دختر شروع به عکس گرفتن کرد و از زوایای مختلف در دوربین اش از او کادر ساخت. مرد از همه زنها متنفر بود و هیچ وقت دوست نداشت عاشق بشود ولی صورت این سوژه با همه صورت هایی که دیده بود خیلی فرق داشت. به خانه برگشت و در استودیو عکاسی اش شروع به ظاهر کردن همه عکس هایش کرد. وقتی اولین نما از صورت دختر را که دید یک لحظه ایستاد و در آینه به خودش نگاه کرد رنگش پریده بود، عکس ها را در کادر بزرگ چاپ کرد و همه را به رخت آویخت از اتاق بیرون رفت. >>>