Souri
16-Jan-2009 (2 comments)
This satire is not posted in relation to any international or national event or any special discussion on the forum>>>

SIGHEH

آزادی جنسی نامحدود

صیغه، امتداد منطقی ‌نهاد ازدواج در ایران

16-Jan-2009 (22 comments)
صیغه بخشی از ساختار رابطه جنسی زن و مرد در ایران را تشكیل می‌دهد. برای ‌بررسی پدیده صیغه باید به شناخت و كالبدشكافی این ساختار كه سیاست جنسی‌ حاكم را بر اساس سنت/فقه/قانون تعریف كرده است پرداخت. در این ساختار به جنسیت زن و مرد دو نقش كاملا متمایز در رابطه جنسی‌ با یكدیگر داده شده است. نهاد ازدواج تعریف شده در این ساختار یك رابطه كاملا یك طرفه است، رابطه ای‌ كه از سوی زن بسته است و از سوی‌ مرد باز. در هر زمان ‌زن فقط با یك مرد می‌تواند رابطه داشته باشد ولی مرد می‌تواند با چند زن رابطه جنسی برقرار كند. تعدد زوجات یكی از لوازم این ساختار است. ولی‌ محدود كردن آن به عدد دلبخواهی «4»، اصل «باز بودن» رابطه جنسی از سوی‌ مرد را نقض می‌كند. صیغه یكی دیگر از لوازم این ساختار است كه تناقض اخیر را نیز رفع می‌كند. نهاد صیغه اصولا برای ‌تأمین آزادی جنسی نامحدود مرد تعبیه شده است و نمی‌توان از آن به عنوای وسیله‌ای محترمانه برای به قاعده درآوردن روابط جنسی خارج از ازدواج بین زن و مرد بهره گرفت>>>
bubbly
16-Jan-2009
Lets be one soil, one soul, one humanity. Let there be no differences, segregation or racism. Let there be one earth, one people, one heart. >>>

STORY

The Good Old Days

The world isn't going to wait

16-Jan-2009 (one comment)
The first few dates are fine, but somewhere around the fourth or fifth date, there'll be a couch and a T.V. - this will be in her apartment, not mine, since I have only a couch - and I know how nice a couch is and I know how nice sitting close together and touching is, and I know how much we deserve to sit and rest and let someone else do the living for a little bit, and I know how much it feels like living when we can talk about what we are watching, in a way that we couldn't talk about a book or a song on the radio, and it is like everything is laid out nice and easy, the two of us on the couch together and all that life on the television screen, everything is laid out nice and easy except for the world, except for just that one thing that asks you to be small at first>>>

ABOUT TIME!!!

Anonymous Observer

Qatar and Mauritania Suspend Diplomatic and Economic Ties with Israel

Al-Jazeera
recommended by Anonymous Observer
16-Jan-2009 (4 comments)
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Gaza Is a Concentration Camp

capt_ayhab

One Israeli official promised a holocaust in Gaza; it is impossible to keep pace with the death toll.

AlterNet / Ellen Cantarow, AlterNet.
recommended by capt_ayhab
16-Jan-2009
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Azadeh Azad
16-Jan-2009 (4 comments)
A peace poem by Jean Shinoda Bolen >>>

The Revolution, 30 years after

Setareh Sabety

I was a Teen Revolutionary

The Guardian / Golesorkhi
recommended by Setareh Sabety
16-Jan-2009 (7 comments)
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News Goffer
16-Jan-2009 (144 comments)
A comment which became a blog. >>>

Sunni & Shi’ite

Darius Kadivar

Hamas’s Iranian Guardian

The Media Line / Rachelle Kliger
recommended by Darius Kadivar
16-Jan-2009 (2 comments)
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alborz
15-Jan-2009 (13 comments)
In the early hours of Wednesday, Januray 14, the homes of 11 Baha’is were raided by plain clothes officers of the security and information agency. Amongst them is Jinous Sobhani... >>>

Human Rights Violations on both sides of the fence

Ramona

2009 World Report on Human Rights Violations across the Globe

Human Rights Watch / Human Rights Watch
recommended by Ramona
15-Jan-2009 (2 comments)
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Remember Bill Moyers?

Zion

Bill Moyers: Since Biblical times God-soaked violence became genetically coded into Jews

Bill Moyers Journal/ Augean Stables
recommended by Zion
15-Jan-2009 (18 comments)
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Poirot
15-Jan-2009 (17 comments)
This article clearly demonstrates how those such as myself who oppose the terrorist state of Israel bent on exterminating the Palestinian people >>>
Zion
15-Jan-2009 (2 comments)
A documented comparison between the way Israelis use technology to communicate with Palestinian civilians, and what Hamas does. >>>