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Entries from September 2008

To Save Main Street Bush and Cheney Must Resign

September 29th, 2008 No Comments

George Bush and Dick Cheney must resign. They have said that the economy is in grave danger and that we could be headed for another 1930′s-like depression if the U.S. Congress does not pass a $700 billion bailout bill, but the bill failed because not enough people believe anything the Bush administration says anymore after [...]

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Letter to Bill Keller of New York Times

September 27th, 2008 No Comments

To: Mr. Bill Keller Executive Editor New York Times Dear Editor, I write to you out of a deep sense of alarm about the declining state of our political dialogue and to remind you of the pivotal role that you, the media, can play in our democracy. There are a variety of substantial candidates running [...]

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To Be or Not to Be: Ralph Nader Confides in Cardozo the Parrot

September 23rd, 2008 No Comments

Cardozo, here you are from the free flying Amazon jungle to a cage in Utah–albeit an open door cage with a fine master. Do not feel sad, Cardozo. Millions of voters have also been put into an invisible cage. It is a corporate-dominated two-party cage with no open door unless they break out and vote [...]

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گفتگو با یکی از اولین دخترانی که در اصفهان دیپلم گرفت

September 12th, 2008 No Comments

 فکر می کردم ۵۰ سال زود به دنیا آمده ام!!   به شناسنامه، «طلعت شاه ناصری» متولد سال ۱۲۹۸ است اما خودش حدس می زند سنش بیش از چیزی است که در شناسنامه نوشته اند. در سال ۱۳۱۵ هم دیپلم گرفته. یکی از اولین دختران اصفهانی است که دیپلم گرفته اند. می گوید همان موقع [...]

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Iran: journalist’s death sentence overturned

September 11th, 2008 No Comments

Reporters Without Borders welcomed with great relief the ruling by the Tehran Supreme Court overturning a death sentence against Kurdish journalist Adnan Hassanpour in Iran, because of a procedural error. The court decided that the journalist, convicted of ‘subversive activities against national security’, could not be considered as a ‘mohareb’ (an enemy of God) and [...]

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

September 10th, 2008 No Comments

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 to jail was mainly because of his political push to open relationships with Iran, which [...]

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Go Tell Sarah: Celebrate the Freedom to Read

September 10th, 2008 No Comments

 Banned Books Week Celebrating the Freedom to Read September 27–October 4, 2008 Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2008, marks BBW’s 27th anniversary [...]

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If I was God! – من اگه خدا بودم

September 4th, 2008 No Comments

من اگه خدا بودم وقتی شیطان در برابر انسان سجده نکرد خشتکش رو در میاوردم و از بارگاه بیرونش میکردم ! چه معنی داره شیطان به حرف خدا گوش نکنه ! وقتی میخواستم پیغمبر برای خلق تعیین کنم از ۱۲۴۰۰۰ پیغمبر ۶۲۰۰۰ نفرش رو از زنان منسوب میکردم تا عدالت رعایت بشه !   کمی [...]

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Moving Poetry Highlights RANT/RAVE/RIFF – including poems of Jalaluddin Rumi

September 3rd, 2008 No Comments

WORDS collide with IMAGE and MUSIC – the result is pure POETRY! Highlights from 4 Season Productions newly released Moving Poetry Series. Poems by Pablo Neruda, Rumi, Langston Hughes, Carl Sandberg, Antonio Machado and others. Visit our website to learn more about the films, poets, poems, readers and watch additional footage – all at www.4seasonsproductions.com.

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