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Shirin Ebadi speaks for Nasrin Sotoudeh - Amnesty International .

Soosan Khanoom — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:41:44 +0000

" my colleague Nasrin Sotoudeh was the lawyer that so many of us human rights defenders in Iran called when our own government harassed us or put one of us, or a family member, in jail.

Sadly, it is now Nasrin who is in jail.

Her crime?

Normalize This!

Soosan Khanoom — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:39:53 +0000

Nothing is normal about occupation
nothing normal about apartheid
ethnic cleansing, siege, blockade
settler only roads, bombing water wells
schools, mosques & UN buildings
nothing normal about putting
a civilian population on a diet
paying non-indigenous foreigners
to occupy land that is already populated
rewriting the Nakba with each stolen childhood
trying to desensitize the puncture wounds
and claw marks put into the bodies of
Bassem Abu Rahme & Rachel Corrie

No, I don’t want to normalize with you
I don’t want to hug, have coffee, talk it out

All IN, All IN, & All IN... OK .. OK we got it!

Soosan Khanoom — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:02:36 +0000

We have been advised by THE morality police on this site, to stop talking about the latest CIA affair thingy and focus on the issues on Iran. But how can we while our title carries our guilt? Iranian-American.

The American part of us can not let this exciting, developing, and twisting story to just go away. Believe me, Police jan I tried but every channel I flip to these days, I am finding the he(s) and she(s) and their R-rated story. ( rated R for sex and CIA) ..

Deploying The Feminine Wiles

Soosan Khanoom — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:45:02 +0000

"Women are not only just as capable in what I call secret warfare, they actually have a great advantage" Mossad Director Tamir Pardo.

Donkey or Elephant ?

Soosan Khanoom — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:49:40 +0000

Waiting For Sandy!

Soosan Khanoom — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 04:20:37 +0000

Some Online Comments....

If we get a forecast for heavy snow the one constant is that the stores will run out of milk,bread,and eggs in a few hours.I suppose people like French Toast when marooned in the house.

Republicans are saying they have to wait till Thursday to find out exactly how and where Obama's response to Hurricane Sandy was incompetent and a failure

Stalin, a few answers to a few questions...

Soosan Khanoom — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:24:26 +0000

Stalin, a few answers to a few questions ....

Which Law? Whose Country?

Soosan Khanoom — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:00:18 +0000

In this Fall season, on this early October day of the year 2012, nothing could have woken me more effectively up than reading the news that 's posted by the IC 's very own freedom fighter, Fred. Reading it made me completely awake, something that the alarm clock in its "Trill" mood or the smell of coffee in my cup could have never been able to do it so easily.

Here is a link in case that you have missed it.... Reuters / Roberta Rampton.

Well, they may still be terrorists, but now they’re our terrorists.... LOL

Soosan Khanoom — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 05:44:30 +0000

Bush not that long ago told the world, “We don’t differentiate between those who support terrorism and who harbor them”..... AIPAC, however, found a loophole, One can rent one .

One of those WTF moments in American political history.

Soosan Khanoom — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:51:29 +0000

With no doubt one of those WTF moments in the American political history is going to be the Clint Eastwood's Empty Chair Speech and here are the top ten comments on this subject.

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After the speech Eastwood continued the debate behind scenes with dishwasher, refrigerator and a Bunn coffee machine

Clint Eastwood is still backstage arguing with a vending machine.

Even Neil Diamond posted "nobody talks to a chair". Oh, wait...

If Eastwood's speech was the pinnacle of absurdity and bizareness, Romney's was the height of blandness

Problem solved... keep women out of clear sight altogether!

Soosan Khanoom — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:35:43 +0000

Ok, now, would't it be great if we could have this latest technology being imported from Israel? Who said Israelis and Iranians have nothing in common? For sure the Rabbis and Mullahs do !

Check this article out .. I shall post some thoughtful comments as you read it and by that I mean the comments that I came across on the internet.

Mindless Science

Soosan Khanoom — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:40:30 +0000

Not all scientists are pretending to be mindless zombies. Some of the greatest scientists of all time, particularly the founders of the Quantum Theory, thought that consciousness was the fundamental reality of the universe, it's very intelligence, and "matter", as existing separately from consciousness, an illusion:

"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself" –Niels Bohr

Dealing Effectively With Iran Without War

Soosan Khanoom — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:01:38 +0000

An American friend of mine, an established poet, who also volunteers for the Middle East Peace Center has been working very hard to organize this event. I would like to share with you the information and invite those of us who can to attend.

Thanks

HSK

“Dealing Effectively With Iran Without War”
Featuring Peter Beinart and Jamal Abdi
June 12, 2012 at 7:30 P.M.
Siegal College of Judaic Studies
26500 Shaker Blvd., Beachwood, Ohio 44122
Admission: $10.00

Submerged City

Soosan Khanoom — Wed, 30 May 2012 03:30:38 +0000

There is a poem by Adam Zagajewski from the collection " Eternal Enemies " that I would like to share it here with you. A friend of mine once told me that this poem reminds him of Pripyat, the eerie ghost city, abandoned after the wake of the Chernobyl disaster.

It is a city without people that stuck in a Soviet time warp, a melancholy meditation on impermanence. Among the ruins, plastic kitsch, shoes, political posters and other modern paraphernalia, nature is starting to reassert its authority. Grass and trees are reclaiming the city...

Shalom

Soosan Khanoom — Mon, 28 May 2012 07:06:53 +0000

I Smell You Mother

Soosan Khanoom — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:13:53 +0000

I smell you mother
Far from our home
Your scent
Your good,
great scent
Is more delicious
than any other smell in my nose;
Your voice
Your melodious,
musical voice,
that calls me
In the way nobody has ever called,,
Is a note of support,
serenity,

This is news and it is funny too.

Soosan Khanoom — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:03:49 +0000

" I always intended to keep my mouth shut " the mole then continues, " The plan was simple: get hired, keep my head down and my views to myself, work for a few months, build my resume, then eventually hop to a new job that didn't make me cringe every morning when I looked in the mirror."

Where are Mash Ghasem and Tigr Lily?

Soosan Khanoom — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:54:12 +0000

Teahouse Poems

Soosan Khanoom — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:46:49 +0000

Shattered in our image

It all comes out in the end to the empty paths

Passing by the prairie night

Imprisoned with blurred visions

I as in irony

For three minutes, listen to me with your heart

Soosan Khanoom — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:08:20 +0000

I have come to appreciate Rap music may be because I like poetry. Rappers are poets and are one of the wittiest most clever writers with incredible punch lines as well as having versatility with their words. I love the beats. A good one soothes the ear and distresses the mind.