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Monthly Archives: March 2010
ASUC President Smelko Vetoes Divestment Bill
He will be voted out of office, I promise, and then they’ll vote for the bill again: ASUC President Will Smelko vetoed a bill Wednesday that called for the University of California to divest from companies that have provided war … Continue reading
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Rapper LowKey
I recently discovered this underground rapper and I must say, I’m glad to have done so. Actually, I didn’t really discover him per se, but rather someone posted one of his music videos on my blog’s comments section, which reminded … Continue reading
Fiance of slain Iran protestor meets Peres in Israel trip
Ha’aretz: The fiance of the Neda Soltan, a 27-year-old Iranian woman shot dead during protests in in Tehran, met with President Shimon Peres on Monday during a visit to Israel. “I came to Israel as an ambassador of the Iranian … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, The Conflict
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UC Berkeley student senate votes in favor of divestment
[The divestment campaign was first launched at UC Berkeley when I was an undergraduate there. It took a long time, but the activists at Students for Justice in Palestine finally did it.] Early yesterday morning, the University of California Berkeley … Continue reading
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Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?
NPR – Excerpt: “‘Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible,’ Jenkins says. Jenkins is a professor at Penn State University and author of two … Continue reading
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Rafsanjani Closes Ranks
Foreign Policy Magazine – Excerpt: “In exchange for Rafsanjani’s loyalty, the supreme leader appears to have given him power over a new bill that will establish a National Elections Commission to reform the electoral process. Not only is this issue … Continue reading
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NIAC: House Passes Historic Norooz Resolution
NIAC – Excerpt: “The National Iranian American Council applauds the passage moments ago by the House of Representatives of H.Res.267, the Norooz Resolution, and commends Representative Mike Honda (D-CA) for championing this historic resolution.” “The Norooz Resolution passed by a … Continue reading
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Human Shields
Israel has long claimed that Palestinian civilians die at the hands of Israeli attacks only because Palestinian militants fire from among them and that civilians die from Israeli response fire. Palestinians have long claimed that Israelis deliberately target Palestinian civilians … Continue reading
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Iran Tackles Marriage Issues
See the interesting al-Jazeera video here..
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Bedfellows in a tiff
al-Jazeera video on how US-Israeli relations are now under strain.
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Nazila Fathi at the New York Times…
Needs to get herself a clue: “Since a disputed presidential election in June set off enduring unrest, the opposition has timed some of its protests to holidays. The December protests came during Ashura, the commemoration of the martyrdom of Ali, … Continue reading
Gorbachev’s Op-Ed on the 25th Anniversary of Perestroika
NY Times – Excerpt: “The series of political and economic reforms I undertook in the Soviet Union in 1985, has been the subject of heated debate ever since. Today the controversy has taken on a new urgency — not just … Continue reading
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Jimmy Kimmel’s “Handsome Men’s Club”
Oh how this is funny.
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Oscar Results
I flew back from Cali to Ann Arbor tonight (had a marvelous spring break – thank you for asking) and I caught the latter half of the show… thought the Baldwin-Martin ‘Paranormal Activity’ spoof was laugh-out-loud funny 🙂 and I … Continue reading
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Army Ebbs, and Power Realigns in Turkey
[Excellent article on recent and historic developments in Turkey… thanx Asli] NY Times: ISTANBUL — The detention of top military officers in Turkey last week was nothing less than a quiet piece of history. The military, long considered untouchable in … Continue reading
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