Tag Archives: Iran

Homecoming – Exiled Again

Hooman Majd has got a questionable reputation during the so-called Green Movement in Iran, brutally crushed by the regime (similar to what had happened only a couple of weeks ago), when the election of 2009 in Iran was probably rigged … Continue reading

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Friendly Leaks

Reports on Friday that ex-Pentagon General James Cartwright is subject of a DoJ investigation into last year’s Stuxnet leak to the New York Times may be a red herring. It is one of the stories which in general would shine … Continue reading

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No Moral Center

A couple of days before Inauguration Day for Barack Obama’s second term, Noam Chomsky had a damning indictment for the President. As  a “man without a moral center,” he characterized him in an interview with Al Jazeera. Inauguration will be … Continue reading

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Obama’s New Middle East

How President Obama would address, in his speech on recent developments in the Middle East, the three key players, which have not participated in any constructive way in what is called the Arab Uprising, was in fact quite interesting. First … Continue reading

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Be Conscious of God and Speak Always the Truth

While the Middle East is burning these days, one might wonder whether the uprisings, after Arab revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, in Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen; again in Iran are due to a domino effect. Autocratic governments (a Western … Continue reading

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