VIEW

Terrorists Among Us

Mojahedin's Khalgh's foothold in U.S. Congress and the mass media

by nmilaninia
14-Apr-2008 (43 comments)
In recent months, there has been significant activity by a terrorist group lobbying Senators and Congressmen on Capitol Hill. The Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Islamic socialist organization listed on the State Department list of terrorists, has launched a widespread lobbying campaign to persuade US politicians to unfreeze bank accounts associated with the MEK and to promote war with Iran. In pursuit of these objectives, the MEK and its affiliate, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), have created numerous front groups, with the express aim to lobby prominent California members of Congress. Their targets include Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi—all individuals who urge high-level diplomacy with Iran>>>

STORY

Tehran Nights

Part V

by sanazkhalaj
14-Apr-2008 (4 comments)
Ross opened a set of double-doors. The doors were arched. The arches hinted at a theme in the house. The design was replicated in the frame of the burgundy-velvet draped windows placed strategically around the home for auxiliary privacy. As we followed him through the luxueux abode, the music got louder and louder. A drum-like beat complimenting the song playing in the background, Sharam’s ‘Party all the Time’, led us to the crowd. Walking through the candle-lit passage and into the first of five bays, we were faced with the ecstasy-party bit in the opening scene of Syriana, but infinitely swankier. High quality, everything.>>>

POETRY

دونده
by Orang Gholikhani
14-Apr-2008 (one comment)
دویدم و دویدم
اینجا عرق میشود ریخت
ولی از گریه باید گریخت
دویدم و دویدم
تا دردم و خاموش کنم
فکر کنم چاره کنم بی تو چکار کنم
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EUROPE

Friends forever?

What can America’s friends do for America?

by Ben Tanosborn
14-Apr-2008 (3 comments)
Where are your friends when you really need them? Isn’t that time of need when true friends really surface, sharing their buoyancy as they try to help keep you afloat? Well, we really haven’t seen many of those friends around, not for America, although we have seen the traditional parasites – those who instigate our misguided foreign policy for their own ends, as well as those who either go along with America’s criminal government, or simply look the other way. In some regions, such as Latin America, one would hardly expect to find any friends of the United States – of the non-servile kind, that is – given the long history of bullying and the oppressive hand this nation has had in that region… but what about Europe?>>>