Archive - Dec 2011

Spring

A poem by Liberated

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Persian poetry in Platforma Festival

A superbly eclectic mix of poets and musicians from across the UK brought together for the very first time as part of the Platforma Festival >>>

Socrates Is Dead

Former Brazil captain Socrates has died at the age of 57. >>>

«خدایی نیست به جز خدای یکتا» اثر رضا اصلان

هم اکنون ترجمه فارسی کتاب پر فروش و بحث بر انگیز «خدایی نیست به جز خدای یکتا» اثررضا اصلان بصورت رایگان برای دانلود موجود است.>>>

A Nuclear Iran: Get Used To It

The very countries calling on Iran to scrap their nuclear program are armed to the teeth with their own nuclear weapons. The United States, the United Kingdom, France and Israel are all nuclear powers. Germany, the Netherlands and the rest of the NATO countries are "sharers" of nukes kindly supplied to them by the US. Together they could destroy all of mankind ensuring that no life will exist on this planet for, lets say, the next several million millenniums>>>

Pissing Off the U.S.

Some of us seek to argue for a soft landing for US-Iran relations through things like serious mutually beneficial and peaceful dialog, and discussion, and well, for lack of the these days rarely used term, diplomacy. Having seen how entrenched Iran is after 32 years. If there was a chance to overthrow the current system and move it back on track to democracy, I think a pragmatic, less idealistic person would say, that time has passed>>>

Dubious Win

The Islamic Republic of Iran is now more isolated than it has been since the 1980s, but it also has a greater capacity to respond in ways that could disrupt the world economy - affecting the price and supply of oil, for example. Iran has more mature asymmetric capabilities to carry out acts of violence abroad through groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas. And it has more missiles that could attack Saudi oil fields, as well as a steadily growing stockpile of partially enriched uranium that could be turned into nuclear weapons if Iran so chose>>>

A MONTY PYTHON IN PERSIA: Terry Jones visits Iran

Terry Jones of the Monty Python Band is also a History Enthusiast. In a Documentary for British TV called "The Barbarians", he introduces us to Rome's Enemies: Here Come the Parthians, Enjoy>>>