اصلاح طلبی؟

با اين نگاه می توانيم به روشنی ببينيم که بنيادگرايان و اصلاح طلب های اسلامی، بر خلاف آنچه بنظر می آيد، مشترکاً و بصورتی مشابه به لزوم «حکومت اسلامی» معتقد هستند، هر دو از چيزی به نام جدايي دين از حکومت هراس دارند، و هر دو اسلام و قوانين آن را راه نجات می دانند و ـ در عين حال ـ هر دو در پی «جهانی کردن اسلام» اند. اما تفاوت اين دو در اين است که بنيادگرايان در واقع نوعی از همان حکومت خلافتی عثمانی ها هستند به معنی يک ديکتاتوری مذهبی، زدن و کشتن و تا گلو در خرافات غوطه خوردن>>>

Adolescent dream

Anytime but now.
Anywhere but here.
Give me the red soaked floor
of the coloseum.
A night at the palace
with a drunk Baudelaire.
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Making a difficult problem worse

As the international pressure on Iran intensifies, the option of bombing Iran's nuclear facilities remains on the table. It is widely believed that a limited strike targeting key nodes in the nuclear complex can delay Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons by several years. However, a fresh look at the historical record suggests that an attack can intensify the Iranian nuclear challenge and push Iran across the nuclear weapons threshold sooner rather than later>>>

حربه اعدام

مخالفت با اعدام مخالفت با مجازات جانیان نیست (در واقع، می‌توان استدلال کرد که اعدام برای مجازات جانیان کافی نیست)، مخالفت با اعدام مخالفت با خشونت است، مخالفت با مجازات بی‌گناهان است، مخالفت با آدم کشی است، مخالفت با گروگان کشی است، مخالفت با وحشیت بدوی است. اعدام تنها اعدامی را از حیات محروم نمی‌کند و بلکه اعدام کننده را از انسانیت تهی می‌کند. اعدامی می‌رود، ولی اعدام کننده می‌ماند با همه آثار و عواقب روانی و فرهنگی و اجتماعی اعدام برای او و جامعه و محیط و نزدیکان او. اعدام مسئله اعدام کننده است نه اعدامی>>>

The Woman Who Had Been Paying Attention

There was a woman in town who was not considered one of the most beautiful on a day-to-day basis, but once in a while one of the men would see her on his way home and be struck dumb at how beautiful she was, and what the men had in common was that they saw her on the day they'd made something magnificent at their place of work. The baker noticed her on his way home from making what he believed to be a perfect cake. The mason noticed her on the day he'd made the sturdiest wall he'd ever made>>>

آتشونی

یکی از همراهان که همیشه مطالب روزنامه را تعقیب می کرد، خلاصه اخبار کوچ ما مجسمه ها را به کویر برایمان خواند که از خنده روده بر شدیم. همه روزنامه ها به اتفاق این گونه نتیجه گیری کرده بودند که همه ما توسط باند سرقت خیلی ماهری دزدیده شده ایم.همراهمان که زمان حیاتش شاعر معروفی بود، شعر طنزی خواند که نشان میداد ایشان برای آمدن به کویر رفته تا از شهردار مرخصی بگیرد. به گفته وی شهردار از دیدن یک مجسمه در دفتر کارش که تقاضای انتقال به کویر را داشته اصلاً تعجب نکرده بود. به گفته وی همه افراد دور و بر شهردار عین مجسمه بودند>>>

من و او

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Fighting Chance

First, some indisputable basic facts: Republican Presidents have occupied the White House for twenty years of the thirty one years that Islamists have been ruling over Iran. The bane of Islamists, the Iran Libya Sanction Act, ILSA, was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, a Democrat. The proposed Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act which will replace ILSA has passed both Houses of Congress and is being prepared for President Obama’s signature>>>

Don't kill your enemy

Have you entangled in an awkward moment when someone asks you a simple question that requires you to give an answer that can fill up a nine-volume book? It happened to me years ago. It happened when I was a ripe tomato out of college and got hired in a reputable American company. My colleagues as a gesture of professionalism towards new hires stopped by my cubical and introduced themselves. A foreign colleague, perhaps out of curiosity, came to my cube and said, “hi”. After a short introduction he asked me where I was from>>>

Sherlock Holmes’ Daughter (6)

I slid my fingertips inside Katayoon’s blouse, thumbing her top button out of its buttonhole and gliding my hand inside her shirt. “Stop,” she whispered clutching my wrist tightly and slowly pulling it away from her breast. She held me from herself in this way for a long time, staring a meaning at me that I was not understanding. How disappointing to have said, “but you told me to undress you.” That much was apparent. She was saying there was a key to her body that I should find. But how could I be sure?>>>

A garden from Galicia

He said he loved me
I dreamed he was a garden
My scent dwelt in him.
 
I said I loved him
He burned joy into my flesh
Our bed of jasmine >>>

Heaven and Hell

Truly, heaven and hell are not
In another realm, dimension, or place
They are right here and now
Alas, there is no salvation
But peace is possible and real >>>