PAHLAVI
می خواهم از دوستانم دعوت کنم تا کمی به زمين سرد و سخت واقعيت ها برگردند
اعتقاد من بر اين است که مخالفت جمهوری خواهان با مطرح بودن پادشاهی تشريفاتی، بعنوان يک گزينه در رفراندوم تعيين نوع حکومت در ايران، مخالفتی محافظه کارانه، هراسيده و مبتنی بر مفروضات غلط است. و همين محاسبهء غلط از شخصيتی به نام رضا پهلوی در جشم و ذهن آنان هيولائی خطرناک می سازد که بالقوه می تواند ما را به اعماق تاريخ پرتاب کند
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PERSECUTION
Why are they out to destroy San Francisco's Iranian-American sheriff?
Never in the history of San Francisco has there ever been a well funded, daily, weekly, and monthly orchestrated prosecution of any elected official until now -- Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. There is an elaborate campaign to oust Ross Mirkarimi - one of the highest elected officials of Iranian descent in the nation. The November 2011 election witnessed three major races: Mayor Ed Lee, District Attorney George Gascon, and Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi
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CELEBRITY
From streets in Iran to stardom in the US
A car accident left the scrappy young mutt paralyzed in the back legs, lying on a road’s edge outside of Tehran. Kind strangers loaded the gravely wounded dog into their car, fed him then transported him to the VAFA shelter, outside of Tehran. Shelter personnel say if Omid, whose Persian name means hope, hadn’t been rescued, he would have perished due to the extent of his injuries. The dog also had fleas and intestinal parasites, common among Iran’s street dogs
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IDEAS
Jung’s Anima/Animus, Adler’s Masculine Protest
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 -1961), a disciple of Freud, broke with his teacher as a result of disagreement with many of Freud’s basic ideas, including too much emphasis on sexuality as a changing force. Jung, a Swiss Psychiatrist, developed the system of analytical psychology where gender issues were crucial. He devised the concepts of ‘anima’ and ‘animus’ as opposite psychic images in the human unconscious. Anima is the inner figure of woman at work in a man’s psyche, and ‘animus’, the figure of man present within the psyche of a woman
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POETRY
كدام است آن مُرتد
كه بشكند تیلههای خدایان را
جاودانه؟
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BAGHDAD
Iran's delay tactic to arrive at some "soft compromises" in nuclear talks
Iran wants to get Washington to accept it is a player in Middle East politics. This grants it leverage to negotiate new terms of agreement over its nuclear activities. In return, Tehran will offer solutions to its conflicts with the United States in the region. Unlike the United States, Tehran currently supports the Syrian regime and will aim to ensure that a future Syrian government will protect Iranian regional interests
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NUCLEAR
Three things the Obama Administration should avoid
by Michael Singh
In order for the talks resuming in Baghdad to provide a path to Iran's denuclearization -- rather than a slippery slope towards containment -- the Obama administration should avoid three key mistakes. First, the U.S. should not provide relief from sanctions in exchange for anything less than the full suspension of uranium enrichment by Tehran, and other hard-to-reverse steps such as the removal of Iran's enriched uranium stocks and dismantlement of its key fuel fabrication facilities
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SAME SEX
A new term for the same sex marriage
President Obama’s expressing his opinion about same sex marriage stirred controversy among people who were for or against this concept. I am, personally, for complete equality between the same sex and opposite sex in marriage and am in full agreement with civil unions which is a legally recognized union similar to marriage. What slightly bothers me and is hard for me to digest are the words related to this concept: marriage, husband and wife
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POETRY
From Alive, yet unpublished poetry collection
I could never think that I, too,
like five million other Iranians,
one day hurry up my separate exit way
the same way as Mina did
along with her beloved Mr. Bill
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DEAL?
Expectations over nuclear talks in Baghdad
by Reza Kahlili
It’s hard to overestimate the degree of naiveté on the part of the West as it heads toward another round of nuclear talks with Iran in Baghdad on Wednesday. Clearly, Iran is stalling for time to develop a nuclear weapon. The Islamic regime has continuously believed that the more its nuclear program is expanded and progress is achieved, the less likely the West will demand a halt to the program
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MORTAD
بيانيه دربارهء نقش فتوا در تهديد آزادی ها
by شبکهء سکولارهای سبز ايران
گاه، در لحظاتی تاريخ ساز، آشکار شدن معنای يک واژه می تواند هويت کامل يک رژيم استبدادی را، که طی سه دهه خواسته است بر خود پوششی از ساز و کارهای حکومت های مدرن را بپوشاند، آشکار سازد. ماجرای انتشار ترانهء آقای شاهين نجفی، مطرح شدن ديگربارهء مسئلهء آزادی بيان، و اعتراض به اينگونه آزادی ستيزی تنها يک سويهء دلشکن از واقعيتی بزرگ را بيان می کند
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MANOTO
به ظن قوی اگر «دنیل وودنات» لهجه ترکی یا کردی یا... داشت، محترمانه عذر او را می خواستند
by محمد بابایی
خانم «دنیل وودنات» یکی از مجریان تلویزیون "من و تو" است که از پدری ایرانی و مادری بریتانیائی متولد شده از مجریان پرطرفدار این تلویزیون است. او فارسی را با لهجه انگلیسی صحبت می کند. نه تنها لهجه او مانعی برای اجرای برنامه نیست، بلکه به نظر می رسد هیچ کوششی نیز برای برطرف کردن آن نمی شود
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HEDAYAT
"شب نشینی در جهنم" داستان هدایت را در ناخودآگاه جمعی بیدار می کند
"فیلم شب نشنینی در جهنم" از فیلم های قدیمی ایرانی است که با تأثیر از "حاجی آقای" هدایت و نوکرش مراد، به صورت کمدی حاصل همکاری مشترک دو تن، داستان از مهدی میثاقیه و دیالوگ از حسین مدنی، به روال کمدی های مولیر نوشته شده است.
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GUNTER GRASS
برای شعرای شعور، و گونتر گراس با احترامات فائقه
حقیقت واقعه، خانم ها، آقایان!
این است، به شهادتِ تاریخ
که در خاطرِ تلخِ این خیلِ پـُر شکیب
مترسکانی مسخره، گه گاه
مسخ می شدند
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