VIEW

Read My Lips

Women have a problem with the Islamic Republic as a whole

08-May-2011 (10 comments)
While the Iranian authorities have effectively quashed all overt political organization for women’s rights, today women are the most dynamic group in Iranian opposition politics. The feminist critique of the Green Movement is mainly focused on Mousavi’s wife, Zahra Rahnavard, whose name is often mentioned by the international and pro-Mousavi media as representative of Iranian women’s rights movement>>>
Siavash300
08-May-2011 (2 comments)
Once Karl Marx said, history repeat itself and we see over and over the same stories happened in ancient time>>>

An Iron Curtain for the 21st Century

Darius Kadivar

What happens when a whole country's online media goes behind a paywall?

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08-May-2011
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alborz
08-May-2011 (15 comments)
The inhumane prison conditions has led two Baha'i women who have been in prison for the past three years to ask the government to issue the order for their execution>>>
Nazanin karvar
08-May-2011 (2 comments)
Dave Brubeck>>>

اعتصاب اعتراضی زندانيان

Haaretz Editorial

پندارنیک

Israel's infrastructure is hanging by a thread

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08-May-2011
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Of Palestine

پندارنیک

Israel must remember: Not all Palestinians are Hamas

haaretz.com / Yehuda Ben Meir
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08-May-2011
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Sepehr
08-May-2011 (3 comments)
In honor of mother's day>>>

USA

Cost of War

Who should be blamed for U.S. unemployment?

08-May-2011 (20 comments)
While the corporate media focuses on glorifying the killing of Osama bin Laden and creating near 'hysteria' about the Arab uprisings, the European Union and western developed economies are facing massive debt and crisis in the economic realm. On May 3rd, Portugal, now the third eruozone country to be bailed out of a sovereign debt crisis, reached a deal on a €78bn rescue package. Coupled with loans from the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), thus far the price tags on the bailouts come to $157 billion for Greece, $122 billion for Ireland, and most recently $116 for Portugal, the total of $473 Billion!>>>

You Expected a Jeffersonian Democracy in Tunisia ?

Darius Kadivar

Tunisia imposes overnight capital curfews

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08-May-2011
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You Expected a Jeffersonian Democracy in Egypt ?

Darius Kadivar

VIDEO: Egypt Muslim-Christian clashes: 190 face military trial

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08-May-2011
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Simorgh5555
08-May-2011 (one comment)
Darius Kadivar cannot stop freedom of speech.>>>
Tapesh
08-May-2011 (2 comments)
Bahram Moshiri >>>

POETRY

Confusion
08-May-2011
If you decide to forgive me
I will make it easy for you
I will tell you, how for so long
I was trapped in my soul.>>>