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IDEAS
07-Apr-2011 (2 comments)
In this form of rule of an unhindered spiritual despot, which grounds on an image of man as being fundamentally dependent, there is no room for claiming individual independence in the sense of autonomy and self-control. Where the balance between self- and external constraints is being completely tilted towards external constraints, every claim for individual independence and autonomy equals "moharebe ba Khoda“ respectively "war against god“, which calls for capital punishment. Where each decision by the 'leader' as irrevocable 'command of the sovereign' and 'final word'>>>
SUGGESTION
03-Apr-2011 (23 comments)
President Obama should honor this promise by fixing a glaring problem for young Iranians seeking to study here: the Single-Entry Visa policy. For many young Iranians, studying abroad offers a reprieve from the repression they face at home from their government. Students have faced increased restrictions since 2005 under Ahmadinejad that has only escalated in the aftermath of the 2009 elections. And students seeking to study abroad are pressured not to study in the west, with some Iranian officials even threatening to ban study in the US entirely>>>
HUMAN RIGHTS
03-Apr-2011 (one comment)
Like any intergovernmental body, the UN Security Council certainly has its shortcomings, but I strongly disagree with your overall assessment that the Council has done little in the less than five years since its founding. Your ill-informed opinion of the full range of the Council's activities does a disservice to the thousands of victims who have been helped by the Council's attention>>>
ANTISEMITISM
03-Apr-2011 (132 comments)
نمی دانم اما کافی‌ست که به آلبوم های خانوادگی عکس های دوران رضاشاه نگاه کنیم تا دریابیم که گذاشتن این نوع سبیل رواج همگانی داشته و مانند سبیل پرپشت ملی گرایان و ریش شرعی اسلام گرایان نشان از دلبستگی های آرمانی می دهد. در آن زمان تب هیتلردوستی در کشور بالا گرفته بود و طبیعتاً گذاشتن سبیل هیتلری نیز میان جوانان باب شده بود>>>
WAR
30-Mar-2011 (5 comments)
The United States involvement in Libya is fateful reenactment of the Bush Doctrine, and any characterization of it as an Obama “thing” would be headline grabbing by the Obamites and simply theft of intellectual property. Three questions arise – first, why not take out the other disliked tyrants by instituting military actions that help armed insurrections to advance on the seat of power? The answer is that no armed insurrection by protesters - like the one in Libya’s -- has occurred as yet in any part of the Middle East this season>>>
IDEAS
30-Mar-2011 (9 comments)
The current grassroots uprising against the theocratic scrooges or autocratic puppets and their hegemonic linchpins, spanning from North and the horn of Africa, to Southeast Asia supports such a re-awakening paradigm. The fundamentalist crypto-theocracy has also remained an impending predicament in several countries against the organic aspirations of the masses yearning to establish the rule of law, security and sovereignty, modernity, justice and equality, transparency, equality, and peace>>>
IDEAS
30-Mar-2011 (5 comments)
ضرب‌المثل ایرانی با این مضمون می‌گوید که دیگی که برای من نمی جوشد توش سر سگ بجوشد. اصلا برای هیچ‌کس نجوشد. حالا این پسران روستایی با خود می‌گویند اگر قرار است آنان به این حوریان و این نوع شیوه زندگی دسترسی نداشته باشند پس پس کاری کنیم که آن دختران و پسران مدرن طبقه متوسط نیز دیگر به آن نوع زندگی و لذت بردن جنسی و جسمانی دسترسی نداشته باشند>>>
IDEAS
28-Mar-2011 (6 comments)
People around the world have been making comparisons between the situations in their countries and those in the Arab lands in revolt. Will Saudi Arabia follow the path of Egypt? Is Azerbaijan like Tunisia? Such comparisons are often misleading, but we can't help doing it and sometimes such exercises can produce interesting hypotheses. For instance, looking at the spectrum of the Arab uprisings, I believe that Iran is more like Egypt than like Libya. Maybe>>>
ACTION
25-Mar-2011 (21 comments)
Thanks to its active presence on the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Obama administration was able to work with Sweden and a broad coalition of cross-regional partners to ensure the Council took action on Iran. This groundwork paid off today as the HRC voted to establish an independent human rights monitor on Iran to address the ongoing human rights crisis. The need for a monitor is clear. Iran’s dismal human rights record has only been getting worse, with the Iranian government going on an “execution binge” and severe penalties for political dissent that have even landed 28 journalists and 9 bloggers in prison>>>
IDEAS
23-Mar-2011 (22 comments)
The new imperial plan for the Middle East capitalizes on the willingness of the modern middle-classes of the region to enthusiastically serve the international class of super-rich. They would gladly cooperate if they get some semblance of political power and some of what they think they are entitled to: individual rights and freedoms, and some opportunities in the neo-liberal economic environment to fulfill their consumerist dreams>>>
HYPOCRISY
21-Mar-2011 (6 comments)
My understanding is that the operational goal of the military ass-kicking being meted out against Gaddafi is to stop him from slaughtering his people that oppose him and want him out of power. That is a noble goal that I have no argument against... What I am concerned about though, is that Libya isn’t the only Muslim country where the natives opposed to the government are being killed en masse by the government guns. In Bahrain and Yemen also, the opposition has been mowed down by government troops like it’s nobody’s business!>>>
ACCOUNTABLITY
16-Mar-2011 (2 comments)
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Suzanne Nossel spoke on Capitol Hill at an event sponsored by the National Iranian American Council before Congressional staffers, civil society and the press to make the case for creating a Special Rapporteur on Iran at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. "The case for a new mandate focused on human rights in Iran is powerful," Nossel said, explaining that the human rights situation in Iran has deteriorated since the 2009 Presidential elections>>>
LIBYA
11-Mar-2011 (4 comments)
Libya is important because it has oil and much investment in European countries. As a polity is still rather Bedouin; it is a tent-republic in all of its manifestations down to the surrounding where Colonel Gaddafi holds court. He is not a very likable fellow and perhaps it was this antipathy among the Amercians that prompted President Obama to utter the words that no head of state should ever utter regarding another one: “He must go,” said the president. Just as Geroge W. Bush said of Saddam Hussein>>>
WOMEN
07-Mar-2011 (29 comments)
فائزه هاشمی را از پنجره ی یوتیوپ دیدم که هنوز و مثل سالهای بر باد رفته لیدری می کند. می توانست این دو سال را که از زمین و آسمان بر او تهمت می بندند، توی پر قو در سرزمینی بهشتی بیاساید و کاری به کار آن جهنم سوزان که در آن می گدازد نداشته باشد. می توانست شبانه روز عیش و نوش کند و تن نازک به ضربات پلشتی های زبان دیوان حکومتی نسپارد. اما فائزه پشت پول و عیاشی پنهان نشد. سینه سپر کرد.>>>
DEMOCRACY
02-Mar-2011 (14 comments)
در پیامد رویدادهای اخیر ایران و افزایش روز افزون نارضیاتیهای مردم که سرنگونی اجتناب ناپذیر رژیم اسلامی را در پیش خواهد داشت مطلبی که اهمیت ویژه ای دارد انتخاب شیوه حکومت بعدی ایران است تا بار دیگر از چاله به چاه نیافتیم و از اشتباهات گذشته جلوگیری کنیم زیرا متأسفانه خوی دیکتاتور منشی در میان انسانها وجود دارد و اگر قوانین کشوری اجازه شکوفایی آن را بدهند دیری نخواهد کشید تا دیکتاتور جدیدی جای قبلی را بگیرد>>>
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