Archive - May 2011

راهزنی در روز روشن در تهران

بیکاری، فقر و دیکتاتوری >>>

The death of a man is the death of man

The Iranian community worldwide was saddened when a few days ago news of the passing of Siamak Pourzand -- a seasoned, well-respected Iranian journalist with a glowing reputation for advocating liberty -- spread across the globe. Well-deserved messages of sympathy and condolences filled many pages in the cyber space as well as the printed media. A man of honour had died, and his loss was painfully felt by his compatriots who knew and respected him>>>

Motherhood under Technocracy

Although women were the main inventors of tools during the Neolithic Revolution, with the advent of patriarchy, they became identified with nature, while men were marked as producers of technology. Through technology, men conquer nature and other men, and exercise control over women's bodies. There is this dominant view that technology is neutral, just a neutral tool for any kind of purpose; that only the purposes can be good or bad>>>

AY DOKHTAR KHALEH persian piano آی دختر خاله

آی دختر خاله گل ناز من

چهارده نیم ساله گل ناز من

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The American Reality

The Visitor was released in 2008. I was reminded of it after President Obama announced that photographic proof of Osama Bin Laden’s body would not be released to the public. A small circle of insiders who supposedly know what is best for the country made the decision. This elite circle tells us that lives may be lost to terrorism if the photos are made public. As though fewer lives are lost to terrorism when only the elite have access to information and make the decisions>>>

زن حرام

سوگلی اسبق و مدعی کنونی >>>

نیویورک

امروز
نیویورک خم شد
و در آبهای اطلس گریست  
از زخمی بزرگ می نالید
روی تیره ی پشتش >>>

New York

Today
New York bent down
And cried
In the Atlantic waters >>>

The green lantern

As a boy it might be
the stance of a holy knight,
a Jesus of power, heralding
Arcadia.
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