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Islamic Republic cracks down on web dissident technology

Daily Telegraph / Christopher Williams
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18-Mar-2011
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Propaganda on the Social Media

Sahar Naaz

Revealed: US Spy Operation That Manipulates Social Media

The Guardian / Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain
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18-Mar-2011 (2 comments)
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Short Chomsky Video

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Fake Democracy

Information Clearing House / Noam Chomsky
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18-Mar-2011
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JM on 60th Anniversary of the Oil Nationalization

Masoud Kazemzadeh
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18-Mar-2011 (2 comments)
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Anonymous Observer
18-Mar-2011 (30 comments)
Happy New Year to Everyone! >>>
ahang1001
18-Mar-2011 (8 comments)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) >>>
ونداد
18-Mar-2011 (6 comments)
مزیت «منفرد» شدن و رشدی که در ذهن آرتیستهای ایرانی ایجاد شده خیلی خیلی ارزشش بیشتر ازمحدودیت و سانسور و بی‌توجهی است که نصیبشان شده >>>

THINKING OF YOU

Dear Freedom

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18-Mar-2011 (one comment)
Traditional Nowruz celebrations include the preparation of a Haft Sin table which literally means the seven s’s. Seven items beginning with the Persian letter sin (equivalent to the English s) and which represent spring time are set out. To honor this tradition, this year Amnesty International has selected seven cases, all of them prisoners of conscience who have been identified by Amnesty International as “individuals at risk” and are therefore targeted for intensified campaigning>>>

A Nowruz Lesson for a New Generation of Iranian Am

Maryam Hojjat

A Nowruz Lesson for a New Generation of Iranian American

Payvand.com / Jeff Baron
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18-Mar-2011
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DEMOCRACY

We Can

Finally this 32 year fermentation process seems near completion

18-Mar-2011 (10 comments)
Today a new dawn, a new era, is prevailing over the shores of Middle East and North Africa. It feels like a new life, a new beginning, even though for us Iranians our path may be longer to reach the dawn. Nevertheless, the end of this long, dark and torturous night is near. Soon everyone will witness the rays of the rising sun in the East. The recent out pours in the Middle East and North Africa for democracy are perhaps the result of what brave and undeniably courageous Iranians did in June 2009 - standing up against the most brutal regime, our region has ever seen>>>
vildemose
18-Mar-2011 (6 comments)
Did anyone actually not see this coming? Japan's nuclear safety agency raised the severity rating of the country's nuclear crisis Friday from Level 4 to Level 5>>>

NEW YEAR

Norooz Pirooz

The Persian New Year will find its way to my home and into my heart

18-Mar-2011
I try to look at the positive side. The error in that puzzle seems to have been the kick I needed in my guts. It has told me that even if the world is not celebrating, it’s up to me to make a small haft seen, light Norooz candles, and pray for mankind. After all, this ancient feast is all that’s left of my Iranian-ness, it will forever define my identity and is the legacy I shall leave to my children. I can’t allow anger or sorrow to mar the optimism of vernal equinox>>>

POETRY

We are butterflies
18-Mar-2011 (17 comments)
Ruffled Mother-Earth
Rattles unworried islands
Obliterates lives
Vicious ocean waves
Carry more catastrophes
Jolted Japan aches >>>
Hamid Karimianpour
18-Mar-2011 (29 comments)
In the wake of this catastrophe in Japan one cannot help but to ponder over Iran’s nuclear agenda >>>