Category Archives: Politics

Protesters target home of Iran Nobel laureate

TEHRAN (AFP) — Dozens of protesters demonstrated outside the home of Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Thursday, chanting slogans accusing her of supporting US and Israeli “crimes,” she told AFP. Around “150 demonstrators gathered outside my building and … Continue reading

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Urge Eric Holder to Appoint a Special Prosecutor for Bush War Crimes

Last week three important Democrats – Rep. Jerrold Nadler , Sen. Carl Levin , and VP-elect Joe Biden – independently urged the Attorney General to investigate Dick Cheney’s torture confession . A growing chorus of newspapers ( NY Times ) … Continue reading

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In the House of My Bibi: Growing Up in Revolutionary Iran by Nastaran Kherad

NASTARAN KHERAD will share In the House of My Bibi: Growing Up in Revolutionary Iran, her memoir of life in Ayatollah Khomeini’s theocracy. 5:30pm. Follett’s Intellectual Property, 2402 Guadalupe, Austin, Texas This is a powerful memoir of a girlhood spent … Continue reading

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Irooni Rock the Vote

Maz Jobrani San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Ostad Zolfoonon (In Persian) Omid Kordestani of Google (in Persian)

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Forrest Gump Explains Mortgage Backed Securities

Mortgage Backed Securities are like boxes of chocolates. Criminals on Wall Street stole a few chocolates from the boxes and replaced them with turds. Their criminal buddies at Standard & Poor rated these boxes AAA Investment Grade chocolates. These boxes … Continue reading

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Rep. Bob Ney: “The System had it in for me”

Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) who is now out of jail after serving close to three years for Jack Abramoff related public corruption conviction, in a radio interview on Thom Hartmann Show has said that the main reason he went … Continue reading

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3 Iranian filmmakers summoned for heping save Behnood Shojaee!

rooz – Nader Irani In an unprecedented measure, the Iranian judiciary froze a joint bank account that had been opened by three of the country’s most prominent movie directors and actors with the purpose of collecting money to pay the … Continue reading

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Using Bombs to Stave Off War

That title of July 18m New York Times Op-Ed by the Israeli historian Benny Morris predicting that Israel will “attack Iran’s nuclear sites in the next four to seven months.” Li-On, Israel ISRAEL will almost surely attack Iran’s nuclear sites … Continue reading

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Rafsanjani visits the construction of a new metro line in Tehran

Unusual picture of Rafsanjani out of his clerical robe

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Bush gives OK for attack on Iran: Take Action Today

Recent news makes it clear why it is more important than ever that we take to the streets on August 2.  According to press reports, President Bush has given the Israeli military the go-ahead to prepare for an imminent attack … Continue reading

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