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Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Znet Article 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. ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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...

Znet Article 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'...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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

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