Archive - 2008

OLDIES BUT GOLDIES: Tarzan with Ron Ely

One of the Great TV Series that we could see in Iran by the mid 1970's. It starred Australian actor Ron Ely. >>>

Monty Python - Mr. Hilter aka Adolf

Adolf Hitler and Henchmen take refuge in Great Britain >>>

So You Want To Be Iranian of the Day

Here's how! (Dedicated to Pejman Mokhtari, party boy, and Party Girl, reporter). >>>

Similarity between European fascism and Islamic fundamentalism

There is a debate on the similarity between European fascism and Islamic fundamentalism>>>

Culturecide of the Islamic Republic of Iran

The intolerant monolithic Islamists are on the march, lashing out with fury at non-Islamic people and cultures. This cult of violence and death spares neither the living nor the non-living heritage of humanity >>>

Iranian border police on opium patrol

UN is to warn in a new report that there is a surge in illegal opium being smuggled from Afghanistan into Pakistan and Iran. Thousands of Iranian forces have died in campaign against the narcotics trade.

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Need to hear your voice

You may be surprised at the answer; there are already over 205 cosponsors of H.Con.Res. 362. Is yours one? This bill calls on the president to stop all shipments of refined petroleum products from reaching Iran. It also “demands” that the President impose “stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing Iran.” Analysts say that this would require a US naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, the critical chokepoint through which nearly a quarter of the world’s oil passes>>>

Unholy Alliances

On the first weekend of May 2008, Berlin was host to two extraordinary conferences. On the one hand, a crowd of altogether 1,600 predominantly young people from all over Europe met at the Humboldt University in order to discuss and reflect the turbulent, globally unfolding events of 1968. On the other, not far away, about 400 participants gathered at the classier, guarded »Auditorium Friedrichstrasse« under the theme of “Business as usual? The Iranian regime, the holy war against Israel and the West and the German reaction,“ organized by the recently created »Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin (MFFB)«>>>

Monsters

My memories of my childhood are mostly vague but still I can remember being on the playground of my old school; while other children played hide and seek, I was only hiding, trying to make certain nobody would ever find me. I knew they hated me as much as the teachers liked me. I was the one with all the answers. I used to read as many as books I could to maintain my status of a nerd; I was transforming into a huge, mute, lonely devourer of words, and still hungry for anything real. “With each book you read, you’ll grow,” Father used to say. “In my time, I didn’t have this chance. I’m sure you will not disappoint us.”>>>