Iran | Iran
Dec.29.2010
This is Iran's way of getting back at the Western propaganda using the means employed by the mainstream western entertainment industry. Sakineh Ashtiani may have been hanged to death, not stoned, but now they just might do it - to spite the international pressure. Or they will keep her alive...
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Dec.09.2010
Heroism is being retailed quite easily. What you see about such sensitive information is the probability factor designed to create fear and comply with the filibustering by a few big nations.
Julian Assange gets arrested in London for a crime he says he has not committed and not for a...
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Dec.09.2010
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Sep.25.2010
All the furor, and media feeding frenzy over Ahmadinejad's comments at a meeting of the United Nations on Thursday couldn't have been better timed.
When Iran's Machiavelli decided to vent about the U.S. exploited the bombing of the World Trade Center as a pretext for invading and toppling...
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Aug.27.2010
Two years ago, Duane Clarridge sat down to be interviewed by John Pilger for Pilger's series "The War on Democracy." Clarridge, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer was indicted in 1991 for his involvement in covering up the Iran-Contra affair, and retired from the agency in 1987...
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Aug.15.2010
"Hey Ayatollah, Leave Those Kids Alone!" sing two Iranian-born brothers. Their band is named Blurred Vision. They have been living in exile, we are told. The word exile is used quite randomly these days. Were they shunted out because they were protesting or did they leave because they...
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Jul.30.2010
In Iran on Thursday, a nuclear scientist from Iran who had initially defected in 2009 to the US, returned home. The CIA allegedly kidnapped Shahram Amiri, if you ask him. The US officials have a different story saying he was just homesick after defecting all on his own. Some speculate that Amiri...
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Jul.19.2010
Green Zone – The Movie
The missus and I decided to eschew ( remember that word, vocabu-philes? Nothing like dragging out a creaky word once in a while to challenge the ten-second blog readers) the theaters and saw this movie on our significantly smaller – albeit HD – screen at home.
I’m...
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Jun.09.2010
MASADA, Israel — A parade of bejeweled camels, elaborately costumed warriors and prancing horses crossed the stage. Jerusalem had fallen to a conqueror from the east. The high priest predicted disaster and the wrath of a vengeful deity. Three hours later, with searchlights flitting across the...
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May.23.2010
NABLUS, West Bank — During the Palestinian intifada, I sat on a dusty hilltop overlooking this most violent of West Bank towns with a dozen of the top Israeli officers in the area. The brigade commanders told their regional chiefs that all the police work and house-to-house fighting of the intifada...
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