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Piedar: Iranian Anarchism
Znet Article, September, 19 2005
Payman Piedar
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Payman Piedar is the editor of Nakhdar, a Farsi/English-language anarchist-communist magazine with a growing international readership, particularly among Iranian exile communities in North America and Europe. Although he remains very humble of h...
Landau: How The United States Supplied Iran With Nuclear Know How
Commentary, September, 18 2005
Saul Landau
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A doctor friend expressed concern over the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Sixty years ago, some 250,000 people died when US atomic bombs fell over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You needn't become a scientist to understand that radioactivity from nucl...
Wise: Not Everyone Felt That Way
Commentary, September, 12 2005
Tim Wise
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When I was a kid, I remember my maternal grandmother defending Richard Nixon for the crimes of Watergate, because, as she put it: "He didn't do anything any worse than what every other President did." Knowing, even at six, that this was hardly a m...
Zunes: The U.S. and Iran: Democracy, Terrorism, and Nuclear Weapons
Znet Article, August, 31 2005
Stephen Zunes
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The election of the hard-line Teheran mayor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, over former President Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani as the new head of Iran is undeniably a setback for those hoping to advance greater social and political freedom in that country. ...
Ireland: THE LATEST FROM INSIDE IRAN ON THE ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN:
Znet Article, August, 17 2005
Doug Ireland
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The latest dismal news about the Islamic Republic of Iran's campaign of repression against homosexuality comes from the city of Arak, where two homosexual men are scheduled to be executed at the end of the month, probably on August 27( although so...
Mehrdad: New-conservatives, regime crisis and political perspectives in Iran
Znet Article, August, 15 2005
Ardeshir Mehrdad
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In the recent presidential elections in Iran, Mahmood Ahmadinejad, an unknown conservative military commander, won. His victory was surprising as many had predicted Hashemi Rafsanjani would become Iran’s next president. Rafsanjani, perhaps...
Schwartz: The Ironies of Conquest
Znet Article, August, 09 2005
Michael Schwartz
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In 1998, neo-conservative theorist Robert Kagan enunciated what would become a foundational belief of Bush Administration policy. He asserted that "a success...
Ireland: The Real AIPAC Spy Ring Story--it Was All About Iran
Znet Article, August, 07 2005
Doug Ireland
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Here's what the stories in today's Washington Post and New York Times on the new indictments of the two AIPAC spies aren't telling you: their espionage was principally about helping to prepare an attack by Israel on Iran. And one of the Israeli em...
Solomon: Media Flagstones Along a Path to War on Iran
Commentary, August, 06 2005
Norman Solomon
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On Tuesday, big alarm bells went off in the national media echo chamber, and major U.S. news outlets showed that they knew the drill. IranÕs nuclear activities were pernicious, most of all, because people in high places in Washington said so.
Monbiot: The Treaty Wreckers
Commentary, August, 04 2005
George Monbiot
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Saturday is the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The nuclear powers are commemorating it in their own special way: by seeking to ensure that the experiment is repeated.
Ireland: The Controversy Over The Iranian "Gay" Hangings
Znet Article, July, 30 2005
Doug Ireland
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The report on the hanging of two Iranian teenagers for being gay, the controversies surrounding the initial reports, and the way in which the story has evolved illustrate a number of problems which should concern sentient gay and lesbian people h...
Kovalik: Remembering Our Past of Torture In Iran
Znet Article, July, 15 2005
Daniel Kovalik
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There is now quite a bit of hand-ringing about the past of Iran's president-elect, especially as to whether, as a youth, he participated in the hostage taking of the 52 Americans who were held for 444 days, beginning in 1979. While this is certa...
Sadri: The Banana-Free Republic of Dr. Ahmadinejad
Znet Article, July, 08 2005
Ahmad Sadri
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Looking back at a close election won, lost or stolen by an unlikely candidate one must guard against over rationalizing. On occasions like this pundits who never told us so tend to speak as if they could have, or nearly did tell us so. The neuroti...
Landau: Posada arrest points to Bush’s anti-terror hoax
Commentary, July, 04 2005
Saul Landau
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President George W. Bush has emphasized that if one of the myriad of U.S. police agencies even suspect someone of planning, abetting or carrying out a terrorist act, he will, at a minimum, get tossed into a dark hole. Indeed, Bush has thrown the M...
Sadri: Exact opposite of paranoia
Znet Article, June, 30 2005
Ahmad Sadri
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As the velvet revolution of 1989 unrolled in Prague, Czech activists recalled the dark skies of the Spring of 1968. They had jubilantly arrived at 89 by turning 68 on its head. Today, Tehran feels like it has been on a runaway time machine going i...
Solomon: From Tehran to Washington, an Axis of Demagogues Just Got More Dangerous
Znet Article, June, 28 2005
Norman Solomon
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Ten days ago, in one of southern Tehran’s poor neighborhoods, I interviewed some voters in line to cast ballots for Iran’s next president. After a while, when an official at the polling station asked who I thought would win, I repe...
Vera-zavala: Venezuela - The Country Of Parallels 3 - Short For Socialism
Commentary, June, 25 2005
America Vera-zavala
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The anti-globalisation movement has repetitively been criticised for not being clear on the alternative to capitalism. The movement wants to replace capitalism, change the world but does not talk about socialism, which according to some lefties is...
Solomon: Gains for Democracy Could Jolt Iran's Theocrats and America's Neocons
Znet Article, June, 23 2005
Norman Solomon
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Iran's most repressive clerics and the USA's most militaristic neocons share a common interest: They're very eager to see the failure of Iranian activism for democracy and human rights. On the surface, no outlook could be farther from Washington'...
Ritter: The US war with Iran has already begun
Znet Article, June, 21 2005
Scott Ritter
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Sunday 19 June 2005 - Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the Marc...
Solomon: Letter From Tehran: In Washington's Cross-Hairs
Commentary, June, 15 2005
Norman Solomon
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Letter From Tehran: In Washington's Cross-Hairs


