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AHMADINEJAD
20-May-2011 (2 comments)
Ahmadinejad tried to resist pressure from the supreme leader and lost. He has been badly weakened by recent events. Many have compared Ahmadinejad’s likely fate with that of Abulhassan Banisadr, the Islamic Republic’s first president who fell out with Khomeini and was forced into exile. Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency reported last week that several members of parliament had revived a bid to summon Ahmadinejad for questioning over “recent events”>>>
PHENOMENON
18-May-2011 (12 comments)
برای یک موضع‌گیری مسئولانه و حساب شده باید پدیده احمدی‌نژاد را بهتر شناخت و شکاف بی‌سابقه‌ای را که حرکت او در ساختار جمهوری اسلامی وارد کرده ارزیابی کرد. احمدی‌نژاد نشان داده است که، به رغم فرهنگ خرافی و اندیشه‌های امام زمانیش، سیاستمدار عامه‌گرا (پوپولیست) ماهری است. سیاست اتمی و ضد غربی او حتا برخی از ملی‌گرایان (افراطی) را به تحسین واداشته است، و سخنرانی‌های عوام‌فریبانه او هنوز می‌تواند عده زیادی از مردم را به خود جلب کند>>>
BAHRAIN
14-May-2011 (23 comments)
As night falls in villages around Bahrain’s capital Manama, candlelight flickers in the dusty streets. Small groups of locals hold peaceful protests. There is an air of fear given what has taken place. Sometimes, the vigils are targeted by police, dispersed with tear gas. But worse, the night time also brings security force raids where people are ripped out of their beds and dragged away in front of screaming wives and children. This is Bahrain since the Government imposed Martial Law on March 15>>>
IDEAS
14-May-2011 (5 comments)
We have seen in this article how three interwoven ideologies - patriarchal, technocratic and capitalist – have colonized the spaces of motherhood in the 21st century Western society. Given the sexual division of labour, it is predominantly men who design reproductive technologies aimed at women. These technologies have little connection with women’s actual needs and can be harmful to their health and independence>>>
MEN
14-May-2011 (10 comments)
چه چیزی مردها را از زندگی «بزرگسالانه» دور می‌کند و آنها را به مردان «نوجوان صفتی» تبدیل می‌کند که دوست دارند دنیای «بی‌بندو‌بار» خود را طولانی‌تر کنند؟ روزانه مردانی را می‌بینیم که اصرار بر حفظ سلیقه‌ها و رفتارهای سبکسرانه و غیر جدی دارند؛ با بازی‌های طولانی‌مدت کامپیوتری، تماشای تلویزیون و صرف وقت زیاد در سایت‌های مختلف اینترنتی. این رفتار آنها نیز توسط رسانه‌های سرگرم‌کننده تشویق می‌شود>>>
PALESTINE
12-May-2011 (8 comments)
به نظر می‌رسد این درک است که حماس را واداشته تا به رغم شعارهای تند خود به گروه رقیب یعنی فتح نزدیک شود و بینش و روش خود را تعدیل کند. این نزدیکی ظاهرا بدون مشورت و یا حتا اطلاع رژیم ایران صورت گرفته است. دلیل این امر را می‌توان از واکنش جمهوری اسلامی دریافت. وزارت خارجه ایران، البته، از این توافقنامه تحت عنوان «گام مثبت و مباركی در جهت تحقق اهداف تاریخی مردم مظلوم فلسطین» یاد نموده و از آن استقبال كرده است. ولی اظهارات رسمی مقامات نظام گویای موضع واقعی رژیم حاکم بر ایران نیست>>>
KAMANGAR
10-May-2011 (6 comments)
Farzad had given hope to Kurdish children; so the Islamic Republic of Iran forces killed him. They labelled him an enemy because he longed to keep his heritage alive. He was locked up because he was a danger to the dictator who is unable to survive with people like him alive. Farzad was a liberator; so oppression tightened its grip on him until he choked to death.>>>
MUSLIMS
10-May-2011 (49 comments)
While reading War on Error by Melody Moezzi, I was overcome by awe for a young Iranian-American woman who is brave enough to take a chance and defend a topic that has caused much animosity. This may be the most difficult time for Muslims around the world to raise their voices, but it’s ten times more so for those in the US. In the words of one interviewee, “It has just become such a Pavlovian response in this country: if terrorism, then Islam.”>>>
IDEAS
10-May-2011 (3 comments)
Under capitalism of the 21st century, the body has turned into a package of parts such as milk, blood and sperm; and these parts have become commodities for sale. So, here one needs to find out how spaces of motherhood are created in body parts instead of in body per se. To tackle this issue, one could begin with the most negligible aspect of the mothering experience, which however has been assigned the utmost value under patriarchy – sperm>>>
SECULAR GREEN
08-May-2011
مقدمه: شنبه و يکشنبهء اين هفته (هفتم و هشتم ماه مه 2011)، پس از يک سال و نيم تلاش، شبکه سکولارهای سبز انحلال طلب که در ژانويهء 2010 آغاز بکار کرد اولين همايش خود را در شهر تورنتوی کانادا برگزار کرد. در طی اين مدت پرسش های فراوانی از جانب موافقان و مخالفان اين جمع مطرح شده که خلاصه ای از آنها بصورت پرسش و پاسخ زير تهيه شده و جهت اطلاع علاقمندان تقديم می شو>>>
VIEW
08-May-2011 (10 comments)
While the Iranian authorities have effectively quashed all overt political organization for women’s rights, today women are the most dynamic group in Iranian opposition politics. The feminist critique of the Green Movement is mainly focused on Mousavi’s wife, Zahra Rahnavard, whose name is often mentioned by the international and pro-Mousavi media as representative of Iranian women’s rights movement>>>
USA
08-May-2011 (20 comments)
While the corporate media focuses on glorifying the killing of Osama bin Laden and creating near 'hysteria' about the Arab uprisings, the European Union and western developed economies are facing massive debt and crisis in the economic realm. On May 3rd, Portugal, now the third eruozone country to be bailed out of a sovereign debt crisis, reached a deal on a €78bn rescue package. Coupled with loans from the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), thus far the price tags on the bailouts come to $157 billion for Greece, $122 billion for Ireland, and most recently $116 for Portugal, the total of $473 Billion!>>>
BIN LADEN
05-May-2011 (4 comments)
کمتر کسی انتظار آن را دارد که با کشته شدن بن لادن، دامنه عملیاتی القاعده کاهش پیدا کند. به عکس، ارزیابی کشورهای غربی و به خصوص آمریکا بر این است که در کوتاه مدت، ممکن است عملیات القاعده گسترش یابد. می‌توان انتظار داشت که با از بین رفتن یک عنصر عملیاتی دامنه عملیات یک گروه کاهش یابد، ولی حذف یک رهبر ایدئولوژیک می‌تواند اثر کاملا به عکس داشته باشد و پیروان او را در اجرای عملیات (دست کم در کوتاه مدت) مصمم‌تر کند. با کشتن ایدئولوگ نمی‌توان ایدمولوژی را کشت>>>
KAMANGAR
03-May-2011 (12 comments)
Farzad Kamangar wrote the following piece in memory of a political prisoner from 1980’s. This political prisoner who suffered from terrible poor vision used a small piece of cardboard in place of each lens when his glasses broke during beatings and torture. This was the last image of him seen by his mother. The aforementioned political prisoner was subsequently murdered under torture and was buried in an unknown and unmarked grave>>>
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| Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | Activist denied leave and family visits for 1.5 years | Nov 30 |
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| Habibollah Golparipour: Prisoner of the day | Kurdish Activist on Death Row | Nov 28 |