tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60059872024-03-13T09:36:45.796-07:00DarkMirrorReflections on world politics, personal politics, past/present/future politics, collective and personal dramas, dreams and demonologies.Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-64044464069737706722011-02-12T07:51:00.000-07:002011-02-12T07:51:30.744-07:00The Egyptian Revolution, day by day - from the first great march on 25th Jan 2010 to victory on 11th Feb 2011:
Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-24808964826386425632011-01-26T21:39:00.002-07:002011-01-26T23:49:22.857-07:00TALKING ABOUT A REVOLUTION - The True Story of the Egyptian Uprising
From Cairo back to Tunis, from Tunis back to Sidi Bouzid...
Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian Martyr:R.I.P. Mohamed Bouazizi - d. 4/1/2011 Kasserine, Tunisia 10/1/2011 - Evidence of a Civilian Massacre
The Tunisian Revolution of 14/1/2011
From Khaled Said to Mohamed Bouazizi, from Sidi BouzidParvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-11622841094724505052011-01-02T17:43:00.000-07:002011-01-02T17:43:50.045-07:00GAZA YOUTH BREAKS OUT
The following statement was issued by a group called
Gaza Youth Breaks Out. When contacted by Mondoweiss for more information they sent this response:"We are a group of young people living in Gaza facing different kinds of violence everyday. We are looking for change in our country and trying to taste peace. we can't give you names bcz we are Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-28344889240699808872010-08-18T22:21:00.013-07:002010-08-18T22:47:04.348-07:00LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT.....
Last US Combat Brigade Exits Iraq (BBC)
The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, the US military has said.
The 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division began crossing by land into Kuwait in the early hours of Thursday, said a spokesman. (...)
Most of them drove out of Iraq in a convoy of armoured vehicles, say reports.
Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-73271034296701003202010-06-19T16:24:00.000-07:002010-06-19T16:24:48.781-07:0020 June 2009 - 20 June 2010: FOR NEDA
Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-66502252164740971422010-06-17T17:27:00.003-07:002010-06-17T17:56:44.016-07:00DEFECTORS FROM IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD REVEAL REGIME'S TENSIONS
One year on from Iran's disputed election, former members of the elite Revolutionary Guard speak out:
Iran's Revolutionary Guards point to fresh dissent within oppressive regime
Six months ago Muhammed Hussein Torkaman was a young Revolutionary Guard in Iran, working in the security team attached to the supreme leader Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-60838163166159265232010-06-09T16:04:00.000-07:002010-06-09T16:04:58.938-07:00YOU'RE TALKING BOLLOX, MR. REGEV
A short primer on Israeli propaganda for media dummies*
By Stuart Littlewood
(via Uruknet)Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-78239593816296680172010-05-28T14:16:00.002-07:002010-05-28T19:43:02.199-07:00APPEAL BY IRANIAN POET REZA HIWA FOR ACTION TO SAVE MAJID TAVAKOLI
Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-36224623161942244032010-02-07T20:12:00.000-07:002010-02-07T20:12:10.204-07:00Did You Know? GAZA
Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-12905520365006587932010-01-28T22:26:00.002-07:002010-01-28T23:05:54.675-07:00SHOCK EXECUTION OF 2 POLITICAL PRISONERS IN IRAN
Badp Bloggers Againstdeathpenalty:
In an attempt to intimidate people and prevent more protests, Iran executed Arash Rahmani Pour (20) and Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani yesterday.
Arash Rahmani Pour
Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani
Arash Rahmani Pour and Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani were arrested well before the elections but went on a mass trial with those Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-81803720963694421252010-01-26T12:00:00.001-07:002010-04-18T17:35:55.987-07:00AHMAD SHAMLOU - THE FINAL WORD
"The Final Word (2008-2009,U.S); Moslem Mansouri's second documentary film about the legendary late Ahmad Shamlou, one of the most prominent and influential contemporary Iranian poets. The film is a 55-minute collection of unpublished interviews with the poet and his long time partner, Aida, two years before he died. [+ POEMS!]
In his poetry, Mr. Shamlou, spoke Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-41609092496065194232009-12-29T14:31:00.002-07:002009-12-29T14:59:04.365-07:00OPEN LETTER AGAINST DEADLY GOVERNMENT VIOLENCE IN IRAN
Please sign this petition to the UN and pass it on to others:
Open Letter Against Deadly Government Violence in Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran under the Ahmadinejad administration and at the behest of Ayatollah Ali Khamenie is increasingly clinging to power through the use of repression and military force against all civil and Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-33125079884027797652009-12-16T18:47:00.003-07:002009-12-16T19:18:54.805-07:00IRAN: A BASIJ DEFECTOR TELLS HIS STORY
Video with full statement in Persian and complete English transcript here
Interviewer's comments:
Interviewing a former Iranian Basij militia member
Since the election last June, hundreds, maybe thousands, of opposition protestors have been beaten and gaoled. Human rights groups have documented persistent reports of rape within the police Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-19120689660654862442009-12-12T12:03:00.003-07:002010-02-04T14:45:39.772-07:00Today's the birthday of Ahmad Shamlou....
Ahmad Shamlou, Iran's great poet of love and freedom, was born in Tehran on December 12, 1925, died there on July 24, 2000... after having been persecuted for his works and words under both the Shah and the Islamic Republic:
In this dead-end (July 1979)
They smell your mouth
To find out if you have told someone:
I love you
They smell your heartParvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-55320882416077137312009-12-11T15:57:00.003-07:002009-12-12T13:10:54.803-07:00Al Jazeera English - Focus - 'My torturers deserve pity'
Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught interviewed Ebrahim Mehtari, an Iranian pro-democracy campaigner, who says he was held for two weeks in a detention centre run by the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence section in East Tehran.
He says he was beaten, tortured, and sexually violated.
He is now living in Turkey under the protection of the Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-44398146271260246982009-12-08T18:23:00.005-07:002009-12-14T18:01:43.826-07:00THE DEMONSTRATIONS IN IRAN: BREAKING THROUGH
An Iranian activist explains the protest movement and its objectives:
We shouldn’t forget that ordinary people have been scared with all rights to speak up their minds in over 30 years. They need some time and encouraging examples to defeat that and it is exactly what’s happening in Iran since the Election. Iranian people have once again refound Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-14900627227930984312009-10-06T06:15:00.004-07:002009-12-12T13:14:57.378-07:00Shame on Mahmoud Abbas!
Abbas helps Israel bury its crimes in Gaza
Shame on Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton!
US 'pressured Abbas on UN report'
Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-14145465242792056032009-09-20T05:47:00.010-07:002009-12-12T13:23:12.053-07:00TEXT OF MUNTAZAR Al-ZAIDI'S GREAT SPEECH
By way of final and definitive obituary for America's criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq plus any future temptations on the part of that or any other nation or gang-thereof to engage in imperialistic/expansionistic invasions in the ME or anywhere else on the planet, here - via the FP blog "Enduring America" - is the full text of Muntazar Al-Zaidi's Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-43388221549202801242009-09-10T10:58:00.009-07:002009-12-12T13:27:57.958-07:00"TAGHSIRE MAN BOOD?"/"IT'S MY FAULT?"
GREAT NEW SONG BY KIOSK ON IRAN'S SHOW-TRIALS with English and Italian translations of the lyrics after the video:
Lyrics in English:
My Fault
If a war started somewhere
or someone became poor
It was my fault
If there was a shortage of water
Emigration was just a mirage
It was my fault
If winters were cold and summers were warm
It was my fault
If Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-27008904496174752362009-07-30T01:50:00.003-07:002009-12-12T14:08:02.440-07:00IRAN - BELLA CIAO
Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-55233398976333807142009-07-18T19:02:00.013-07:002009-12-14T17:59:44.135-07:00WITH THE COURAGEOUS PEOPLE OF IRAN IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE
Images from 2009 Iranian Election protests set to classic Iranian folk-song "Yare Dabestani", subtitled in English. Warning: graphic images.
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I've been following the dramatic events in Iran since June 11th on the "StrategyTalk" thread Elections in Iran
For up-to-the-minute news on the protests in Iran, Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-9530890546589807902009-03-06T19:23:00.015-07:002009-12-12T13:19:14.127-07:00
(If the video gets stuck when loading on the page, switch to "full screen" viewing mode by clicking on the second icon from the right at the bottom of the screen - that fixes the problem!)
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Samouni Street, Gaza
Samouni Street is the scene of one of the most notorious incidents in the recent conflict in Gaza.
Palestinian human rights workers say 29 members of the extended Samouni Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-17080942657128021552009-02-01T16:39:00.010-07:002009-12-12T13:25:13.139-07:00
A Palestinian man walks past a chicken farm destroyed during Israeli strikes in Gaza City on January 18, 2009.
Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farms
Gaza's 1.5 million people are facing a food crisis as a result of the destruction of great areas of farmland during the Israeli invasion.
According to the World Food Programme, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation and Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-19303442075448536982009-01-23T13:33:00.004-07:002009-12-12T14:09:52.631-07:00Gaza in Ruins
A News Special by Al-Jazeera
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005987.post-54003690559453379402009-01-18T20:04:00.004-07:002009-12-12T13:26:33.770-07:00"We Will Not Go Down" (Song for Gaza) by Michael Heart
Visit Michael Heart's website to download this song in Mp3 format - with this message from its author:
I would like to request that after downloading the song from this page, you kindly donate directly to a charity or an organization dedicated to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people. Worthy of note is UNWRA (United Nations Parvatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.com0