راههای طی شده (5)

منازعه میان مذاهب چیزی جز جدال تیره چشمان در آب روشن نمی تواند بوددر منظر مولوی، جلوه حقیقت ماورائی در آینه های متکثر فرهنگی و تاریخی نه امری استثنائی و اتفاقی بلکه پدیداری مقدر و لازمه آفرینش است. همچنانکه آگاهی و گذر از این محدودیت دیدگاهی نیز لازمه تکوین جهان و انسان است. متدینین ادیان گوناگون مانند نقاطی در پیرامون یک دایره اند که همه به یک مرکز واحد متوجه اند ولی هریک از زاویه خویش آنرا می بیند>>>

آنتی‌فمینیسم

کی گفته تحمل درد زایمان
 دشوار است؟
من خودم تا به حال
چند شکم مادر زاییده‌ام! >>>

Ali is Free!

Many of you might not know about him, but for me it’s hard to talk about him without getting emotional, even though I have never met him in person. The first time I heard his name was 3 years ago when he was condemned to death. His case became widely visible, but he still remained in prison, until a few weeks ago! A week ago, I received an email that Ali was going to be freed. A few days later, my cell-phone rang and there was this warm shaking voice who said, “Hi, I am Ali!” >>>

Friendless

In today’s world, war is our business. In 2010 the U.S. is busy warring and pushing its imperialistic control throughout the world. We are located militarily in more nations than ever before. It takes billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to maintain that action. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Israel, etc., all have something in common. These Mid-East nations gladly accept our billions of tax dollars for military munitions, various goods and services, yet flagrantly they hate us>>>

Supreme Mistake

Since he stole the majority of the people’s votes in last year’s election, Iran’s Supreme Leader has also stolen for himself, or tried to, every other public occasion all through the year. Already by far the most powerful tyrant Iran has ever known, he demonstrated again and again, all year long, before the shocked eyes of the world to what unbelievably murderous and perverted lengths he will go not just to snuff out every last vestige of his people’s freedom – but to break their very spirit>>>

خورشیدگرفتگی

تحقیقات دریانی نشان میداد که تنها چند ماه قبل از ترور ناصرالدین شاه، در 28 فوریه سال 1896 کسوفی کلی روی داده بود و منجمان به شاه اخطار کرده بودند که روزهای خوشی در انتظارش نیست. در دوم ماه می همان سال ناصرالدین شاه در شاه عبدالعظیم ترور شد و پیشبینی منجمان به حقیقت پیوست. عمده مشغولیت ذهنی دریانی این بود که بعد از کسوف تابستان ، چه قومی به حکومت خواهند رسید و چه کار ها خواهند کرد>>>

Beating the Drums of War

The idea of war on Iran makes me sad. But when you square up ignorance verses hegemony, greed and power, with absence of prudent diplomacy many must die. That is where we are, the night before – the nightmare!U.S. preparation for war with Iran has been going on for a long time as a contingency plan in case no agreement can be reached on the over-blown nuclear program. As expressed by Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff, in a forum at Columbia University “we in the pentagon, we plan for contingencies all the time and certainly there are options which exist”, reference to dealing militarily with Iran’s nuclear endeavor>>>

پیکار ما، و جنگ آنها

واقعیت آن است که ما (چه سبز و چه غیرسبز) نه بیشتر از دیگران متوهم هستیم، نه خرافاتی‌تر و نه جاهل. واقعیت آن است که ما به درستی دریافته‌ایم که پیکار ما و جنگ آنها دو چیز متفاوت است. و این، حتی اگر گاه و بیگاه مسیر پیکار ما برای آزادی و دموکراسی در ایران در نقاطی با نقشه راه دعوایی که غرب با جمهوری اسلامی بر سر غنی‌سازی اورانیوم دارد تلاقی کند>>>

Contemporary Iran

According to the back cover blurb, this book collects in one place the results of field work and insights of "both internationally renowned Iranian scholars and rising young Iranian academics ... As evident from the two chapters discussed in depth, the chapters in this volume vary greatly in their objectivity, completeness, and relevance. Nevertheless, this book is a head-and-shoulder above similar volumes published in recent years about the sociopolitical landscape in the twenty-first-century Iran. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning about social and political issues in today's Iran>>>

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The Case for Attacking

Israel has stated in the past that it will not wait indefinitely to respond - read unilateral military strike - to what it sees as Iran's hostile intent in developing illegal nuclear weapons capability. Israelis rightly see a nuclear Iran as an existential threat - a threat repeated over and over again by the Islamic Republic's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an avowed Holocaust-denier. The U.S. has also said that it will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. The stage is therefore set for a confrontation>>>