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The Price of Peace

The state of Israel, formed in 1948, has led a tumultuous existence since its birth. While achieving impressive scientific and industrial feats, its political and

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Let the Islamists go

The recent turn of events in Iran which includes the ratcheting up of physical as well as verbal attacks on rival Islamist groups within IRR,

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New global balance

The balance of power that has reigned in the international system since the end of the cold war is undergoing profound shifts. Iran’s agreement  with

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Muslims’ Sheep Mentality

Diffusing the present dangerous confrontation between Islam and the West demands rational, impartial and cool heads to untangle facts from myth, understand the Muslims’ mindset,

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Elephants gone wild

There is an African saying that when elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. The image of two behemoths going at each other with tusks and

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Who are we?

The Persians Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran by Homa Katouzian Yale University Press, 2009 REVIEW Homa Katouzian’s latest book The Persians is arguably the most

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Stuck in Bush

While the tone of the Obama administration is different from that of its predecessor, and some of its foreign policies diverge from those of George

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Spoon feeding Iranians

In its desire to build citizen to citizen contacts as a prelude to promote official dialogues and ultimately establish a normal diplomatic and commercial relation

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Crisis of Alienation

During the past three decades the world economy has been at the mercy of neo-liberalism as an ideology for the global north and crony capitalism

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Optimism and Nightmares

The 12th of June 2009 saw Iran’s tenth presidential election get underway with Iranians turning out in record numbers. As someone who decided to vote

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Post-Bush World Order

The U.S. at the head of the western powers tries as much as possible to hold onto some aspects of the unipolar status that it

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ex-super power

Americans are fascinated with bigness. We believe we should have the best and the biggest of everything. Only ten years ago, the United States was

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The other intifada !

   The Tuareg Uprising of northern Niger…The genocide in Darfur…    Algeria & Morocco’s Berbers Battle to Keep From Losing Their Culture. Arab minority forces

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Faal e I Ching

I was with the author Shahrnush Parsipur one day and she was talking about I Ching, which is the Chinese version of Faal e Hafez,

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Democracy for all?

“ … Their conclusions were unanimous: That madman, the Shah of Iran, had inexplicably used cobalt as the contamination agent in the six nuclear bombs

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