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Why Egypt is different from Iran 1979

BabakSabzevari — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:52:36 +0000

The American neocons and their allies in the Israeli government are screaming "Islamism" in response to the uprising in Egypt. The reporters on the ground in Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez, however, are reporting otherwise.

While there are many parallels between the uprising in Egypt and the events of 1978 in Iran, mainly in the way the Mubarak regime has responded to the protests, here are some crucial differences:

Bomb Iran Back to the Stone Age: U.S. Army Journal Cover Story

BabakSabzevari — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:17:40 +0000

Back in March, Colin Powell's former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson said that the U.S. plan is round the clock bombing of 10,000 targets in Iran over 70 days: http://bit.ly/dCIKUp

Good Sanctions, Bad Sanctions

BabakSabzevari — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:41:17 +0000

Today the U.S. Treasury Department reversed sanctions that barred "exportation of services and software used to share information over the Internet" to Iran, including Internet-based communications services such as web browsing, blogging, email, instant messaging, chat, social networking, and photo/movie sharing.

Gladiators

BabakSabzevari — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:28:46 +0000

This is the latter half of Mohsen Namjoo's new song, Gladiators:

Galileo's Confession

BabakSabzevari — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:49:03 +0000

On 22 June 1633 Galileo, having been found guilty at his trial, was forced to make a 'confession' to the Cardinals of the Holy Office of the Church. He read from the text of which a translation is given below:

Ganji's Speech before Chomsky visit to hunger strikers in NY

BabakSabzevari — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:10:26 +0000

This is a full translation of Akbar Ganji's remarks (as posted on YouTube) on Thursday July 23 at the hunger strike in front of the UN building in New York. He was speaking right before Noam Chomsky joined the event.

The remarks are posted to YouTube here (in Persian):

We and the people who struggle inside Iran and abroad for democracy
and human rights never have and never will under any circumstances