NEW YEAR
به امید آن که در سال 2012 آفتاب روشن آزادی، مهربان و گرم، و امن بر مردمان رنج دیده بتابد
درست در بزنگاه های سرخوشی و شادمانی های همگانی، و در مقایسه ی با وضعیت مردمان سرزمین های خوشبخت، یاد مردمان سرزمینم ـ و البته سرزمین های دیگر دیکتاتور زده ـ می افتم که یا از جشن ها و شادمانی های طبیعی شان محرومند، و یا ناگزیرند که آن ها را «پنهانی» برگزار کنند، و یا به خصوص به گناه آزادی خواهی در زندان ها به سر می برند؛ يادی که به راستی می تواند هر جشنی را برایم تلخ کند.
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SYRIA
Why U.S. media turned on Arab League this time
by Eleanor Ommani
Once again, we see the frightening collusion of the U.S. Imperial government with their war partner British colonialists, but this time not in Iraq but in Syria. Immediately upon the arrival of the UN sponsored Arab League Delegation (AL) into the Syrian capital and cities, the American media antagonists wasted not a second in discounting the AL's initial reporting, fearful that the 150+ observers in the delegation weren't going the way of their interventionist plans, and not siding with the opposition's claims
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REVIEW
We are apparently condemned to films that express reality and then we are forced to sit in the dark and watch as our reality once again tears off the barely damp scabs, to open the wound anew. A wound that doesn't even bleed anymore. It just stings. A lot. This is honestly how I felt watching "A Separation". A film that is reaping award after award as it soars across Europe on it's way to Hollywood, where the Oscar buzz is most certainly buzzing
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