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Yellow Dog and his brother The Jackal

Religious engineering

23-Jul-2012 (7 comments)
More than 30 years ago parents, brothers and sisters, cousins and nephews, and even grandparents of the present Internet and tweeter savvy Sabz generation of Iranians crowded streets of the cities in Iran and by raising their clinched fists into the air ,with the highest decibel that they could produce, shouted “Alaa-ho Akbar, Alaa-ho Akbar” rhyme it with selected adjectives and attributes such as “Rahbar, Akhtar, …”>>>

TRIP

ایستگاه

به تایمر زیر چراغ رهنمایی اشاره می‌کنم و به راننده تاکسی میگویم، "خوش بحالتان!

23-Jul-2012 (10 comments)
این روزها، محله‌های نو جوانی من - با نامهایی جدید‌شان - از ساکنینشان پیرترند، و محله‌های جدید شهر - با اسامی قدیمی‌‌شان - از هم سنخان من خالی‌. هر چه میبینم به حافظه‌ام دهان کجی می‌کند. آشنایی نمی‌یابم تا من را با این زمان و مکان آشتی‌ دهد>>>

نبرد شیعه‌ و سنّی

SHAMLOO

در غیبت آن غول زیبا
23-Jul-2012 (63 comments)
قد احمد شاملو و فروغ فرخزاد و سهراب سپهری را در نظر بگیرید و در کنارش انبوه شاعران حزبی و شاعره های بزمی و قداره کشان مافیای نشر و چاپ را تا ببینید که علیرغم تبلیغات حزبی و فیل به هوا کردن باندها، قد هیچکدامشان تا زیر زانوی آنها هم نمی رسد>>>

POETRY

ساقی برقص‌! آتشِ ساقهایت صبحِ ازل
23-Jul-2012
دو سنگِ قبر
دو سنگِ قبر سفارش‌دادم
با فاصله‌ای كوتاه
چشمانم را بخاك
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POETRY

Too dazed to comprehend
23-Jul-2012
Streaming out in ones and twos
in the dark night,
in between reality
and manufactured fright,
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The Muslim Brotherhood

First Amendment

Two Things You Don't Know About Syria

The LRC blog / Daniel McAdams
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23-Jul-2012
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Darius Kadivar
23-Jul-2012 (one comment)
The Spanish Branch of WWF has removed King Juan Carlos as its honorary president for going on an elephant hunting trip in Botswana>>>
First Amendment
23-Jul-2012 (2 comments)
Short and sweet >>>

Of intuitions versus evidence...

First Amendment

Iran and Hizbullah Tried to Attack in 20 Different Countries

Arutz Sheva
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23-Jul-2012
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Fred
23-Jul-2012 (2 comments)
پاچه خاری سیری ناپذیر >>>

Would Iran have Nuclear Issue if it was Democracy?

ayatoilet1

Turkey's Nuclear Power Plant Controversy

The Daily Energy Report / Sinem Demir
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23-Jul-2012
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Money for War but No Money for Chicken!!

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Iran's game of chicken has turned into the "chicken crisis"

Soberlook.com / Soberlook.com
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23-Jul-2012
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What is TRUTH?

Ruhi

INVITATION

SYLVAN LAKE BAHAÍ CENTER / Ruhi
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23-Jul-2012
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