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The Case of Greenwald and Parsi
One time-honored method for obscure writers to gain notoriety is to viciously attack a much more popular writer or public figure in the hopes said person will respond in kind — witness my constant attacks on Barack Obama, who I thought by now would at least answer me during a weekend radio address or something. Anyway, it’s not surprising that Benajamin Kerstein (who?), a writer for The New Ledger (the what?), would choose to blast the much more popular and accomplished Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald for being insufficiently “pro-Israel” given the latter’s blistering and effective attacks on the policies of the apartheid state
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Francois Marie Arouet (aka
Voltaire) is seen by many as the embodiment of the French Enlightenment. Some of his ideas paved the way to the French Revolution, yet England’s Constitutional Monarchy was his ideal form of government.
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جوانان آن دوره در زیر فشار و تحقیر موجود و دلهره ی آینده ی نامعلوم اکنون به پیری زود رس رسیده اند
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TERRORISM
جنایتی که فقط جندالله مسئول آن نبود
اگر تروریسم کور از نوع آن چه که در زاهدان اتفاق افتاد به ایران راه باز کرده، باید آن را در درجه اول مرهون فرهنگ ایدئولوژیکی دانست که جمهوری اسلامی در شکلگیری و تبلیغ و ترویج آن در خاور میانه نقش اول را بازی کرده است. تصادفی نیست که تروریسم کور در خاورمیانه و غرب آسیا و شمال آفریقا عمری کم و بیش برابر با عمر نظام اسلامی حاکم بر ایران دارد و با ادامه حیات آن از طریق تروریستهای اسلامگرا به سراسر جهان نیز گسترش یافته است
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It was rash and spontaneous and my parents were furious. They hadn’t immigrated to the New World, they insisted, only for their children to turn and go back to the old one
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ART
Photo essay: Celebrate new solo exhibit "Passion Play"
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Mokhtar Paki >>>