HYPOCRISY

What is happening to us?

Are we programmed to forgive our own tormentors and only raise our voices against “outsiders”?

01-Apr-2009 (3 comments)
Whenever the victim(s) is Muslim and the aggressor not, the probability of Muslim outrage is exponentially far greater than when both are Muslims. When there is a role reversal that is the aggressor is Muslim and victim is not this observation does not hold. For example lets take the case of the eight year war the late Saddam Hussein started and imposed on Iran. Although no reliable statistics exists, the number of victims are put at anywhere between one to two million. That is one to two million victims with zest for life, beloved families and unfulfilled dreams who overwhelmingly were Muslim>>>

BLOGGERS

«قانون جرایم رایانه‌ای»

سركوب وبلاگ‌نویسان گسترش می‌یابد

01-Apr-2009 (14 comments)
در هفته‌های اخیر موج وسیعی از سركوب وبلاگ‌نویسان به راه افتاده است. در روزهای آخر سال گذشته، اطلاعیه شدید اللحنی از سوی «مرکز بررسی جرائم سازمان یافته اینترنتی» وابسته به سپاه پاسداران منتشر شد كه از برخورد سازمان یافته و با بهره‌گیری از پیش‌رفته‌ترین فن‌آوری‌ها برای كنترل نشر اینترنتی حكایت می‌كرد. در این اطلاعیه گفته شده بود كه ده‌ها سایت و وبلاگ «ضد دینی» و «ضد اخلاقی» بسته شده و ۱۸ نفر بازداشت شده‌اند. در همان روزها خبر فوت مشكوك وبلاگ‌نویس امیررضا میر صیافی در زندان اوین منتشر شد و گزارش‌های بعدی شائبه قتل او در زندان را تقویت كرد. و اكنون «معاونت مبارزه با جرایم خاص و رایانه ای» در نیروی انتظامی، وبلاگ ‌نویسان را با ارسال یك «هشدار» بی‌سابقه مورد تهدید قرار داده است>>>

POETRY

Nowruz in exile
01-Apr-2009 (13 comments)
I stitch
my skirt
to the spring
of the hostess city,
my skin to the
reminiscence
of springs past
in my city of birth,
and I celebrate
the new year's feast,
Nowruz, on Cyberspace! >>>

POETRY

Flint to Flint
01-Apr-2009 (11 comments)
I am on a train.
Heading towards London.
In between two worlds,
my head bouncing against the Window.
The train reaches Kings Cross station,
I zigzag the crowd,
a sea of rushing suites,
and in my empty seat,
a half read newspaper >>>

Fascism at Work

capt_ayhab

Israel FM rejects Annapolis deal

BBC / ?
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01-Apr-2009 (3 comments)
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He said,she said

Fred

No US-Iran meeting at Afghan conference

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bajenaghe naghi
01-Apr-2009 (5 comments)
Read all about it. The end of news programs as we know it>>>
ramintork
01-Apr-2009
I love every season, each has its own beauty specially the Spring. To mark the season I have added a selection of spring poems available from Classical Poems aload podcasts >>>
Darius Kadivar
01-Apr-2009
The first Film of a Trilogy on the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor was brought to screen by the famous SFX Wizard director Ray Harryhausen using the Stop Motion technique known as Dynamation. Enjoy ... >>>
Darius Kadivar
01-Apr-2009
Iranian designer Amir's New Nowrooz Billboard displays the Pahlavi Crown on Santa Monica Blvd in LA. >>>

weak economy... interview with Salehi-Isfahani

sarshar45

Poor Policy, Not Sanctions, Weaken Iran's Economy

Council on Foreign Relations / Interviewer: Greg Bruno, Staff Writer
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01-Apr-2009 (one comment)
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