Archive - Sep 2010

Is our countries toys of the great powers?

 I hope with the wrong politics we will not go to the third world war?

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آیا کشورهای ما بازیچه دست مثلا ابرقدرتهاست؟

 چند روز پیش گریان نزد من آمد و گفت ایکاش حرف شما را گوش میکردم من تمامی پس انداز خانواده ام را لو دادم و همه را ضد تورم از بین برد, بفرمایید اینهم بهشت دنیا آمریکا. میگفت روی بازگشت به کشورش را ندارد و نمیداند چه بکند؟

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Voices of Bravery

Life for students in Iran has not been easy, especially those who seek justice or demand more freedom. Yet some of Iran’s best and brightest come out of Iranian universities and are sought after by American universities. Many have had to leave their homeland to seek more freedom, opportunities or take refuge in exile from harassment and imprisonment. Iran’s brave students continue to resist despite being targeted by IRI officials. They are once again holding the banner of the struggle for democracy, freedom, civil rights and the rule of law whether in prison or outside>>>

Shaping public opinion

Do we remember Shirley Sherrod fiasco?

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That Childhood Taste of Ice Cream

What is different? The ice cream or the child? >>>

Stoning - Monty Python

Python rules!

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America's World

The all-in melee that is now American politics makes forecasting impossible. It can yield anything -- the bizarre is the new norm. Who or what will rise to the top after all this crazed flailing about is a matter of pure guesswork. For we have become an incoherent polity. Yet, in the midst of all this commotion, the tracks of the nation's foreign policy are readily discernible. There most certainly will be more of the same -- "more" in both senses. There are three reasons for this>>>