You must view this anti-Islam Christian propaganda video. It basically argues that Christendom is falling behind Islam in terms of birthrate, and that Islam is taking over the world because Muslim immigration to the US, Canada, and Europe is increasing. It’s fear-mongering at its best. I mean, it even says that France will eventually become [...]

My last post talked about how Israeli Occupation Authorities bulldozed Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem. This post is about how Israel is building more Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. In sum, Palestinians in E. Jerusalem are being driven out and Israeli settlers are colonizing the same area. I mean, is there any doubt that ethnic [...]

Never forget: ”As a Palestinian I know why they do it. Israel doesn’t want us here. My house, most of the Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem are illegal. Not granting us construction permission, demolishing our houses. It’s a form of quiet transfer,” Mr Zahaika says. “People like to talk of human rights. Where are human rights [...]

NY Times: Few Americans have heard of Howard Conklin Baskerville, but most Iranians know his name. A native of Nebraska, Baskerville graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary and moved to Iran as a Presbyterian missionary. He was 23. The year was 1907. Baskerville was an idealist at a time of idealism in Iran. The year [...]

This film is based on the Columbine Massacre (1999).  It was written and directed by one of the massacre’s survivors. I know it’s going to be a traumatic film to watch, but I’m going to see it anyway. It comes out on the 24th of this month. I was 17 and in high school when [...]

BBC: In the upcoming parliamentary election in June, the main Armenian political party, Tashnak, looks set to play kingmaker. The vote of the 150,000-strong Armenian community may sway the outcome of the bitter and close race between the pro-Western government and the opposition led by Hezbollah, a Shia group backed by Syria and Iran. In [...]

Washington Times: (By Su’ad Jafarzadeh) Though the world’s attention has focused on Iran’s advancing nuclear program, Iranian scientists have moved to the forefront in embryonic stem cell research, according to a recent joint study by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Controversial in the United States, embryonic stem cell research was embraced in [...]

Reuters: A young Guantanamo prisoner from Chad was given permission to telephone a relative but instead called the al Jazeera television network and said he was being beaten and abused at the U.S. detention camp. Transcripts of the recorded interview with Guantanamo captive Mohammad el Gharani were posted on the Qatar-based television network’s English-language website [...]

[Another outstanding piece by Roger Cohen] NY Times: For Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, “a combination of ignorance and arrogance” under the Bush administration squandered countless diplomatic opportunities with Iran and so allowed it to forge ahead with its nuclear program.Referring twice to Dick Cheney as “Darth Vader,” ElBaradei told [...]

I know the media is in love with Obama, but is it okay to criticize him here and there? I mean, I still like him, but his Saudi ass-kissing, a Bush legacy honored by Obama, is seriously annoying. If I saw the Saudi king, I outta… Anyway, this Colbert Report effectively captures what I’m thinking… [...]

Do you guys like the blog’s new banner? I love it! You have no idea how long it takes to search through albums to find the right photos and edit them. But I’m happy about the end result for now. When I first came to Harvard, I took my blog from blogger.com to here. It [...]

Huffington Post: Israel does not have the military capability to successfully eliminate Iran’s nuclear program. Even the most successful bombing campaign would only set back the known program for a few years – without affecting any potential clandestine program. This is not classified information. Military experts are well aware of Israel’s capabilities – and its [...]

The newest trailer for “Terminator Salvation” has recently been released. Are you excited yet? I love AI-themed films (The Wachowski brothers’ Matrix Trilogy, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyssey, Steven Spielberg’s “Artificial Intelligence,” James Cameron’s “The Terminator,” etc) and this one looks especially promising.  I hope it will make up for the disaster that was Terminator [...]