The Miracle Revolution Of Syrian Diaspora Held Togther By Internet: Syrian Securtiy Forces Held Together By Spy Movies
Orwa Nyrabia is looking for an apartment in Cairo for a few months, just enough time to wrap his latest movie a month after being released from a Syrian jail. Nyrabia was arrested on August 23 in Damascus and held for 22 days. This 35-year-old filmmaker and creator of the renowned Dox Box film festival…
Syrian tensions and turmoil : Threatens Middle Easterm Bordors created after World War
October 2nd, 2012 Why Syria turmoil threatens Middle East By Fareed Zakaria As Syria continues its descent into civil war, the terrible humanitarian tragedy occurring is unfolding in plain view: 20,000 dead, 250,000 refugees outside the country by some accounts, over a million people internally displaced. There seems no easy solution to end the crisis….
Wide-scale Radioactive fallout in Iran: Talk more feverish everyday of Nuclear Strike
HOW MANY CIVILIANS WOULD BE KILLED IN ATTACK ON IRAN NUCLEAR SITES…. BEHROUZ MEHRI Iranian twin sisters sit in front of worshippers performing ‘Id al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan in the Olympic Village neighborhood of western Tehran on Aug. 19, 2012 For Iranians…
Corruption Buster : Julian Assange Challenging the Super Structures of Political Elites…
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño at a press conference that Ecuador would grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assangeasylum met with cries of approval and applause from assembled journalists. As always, whenever the government of Ecuador calls an official press conference, mostly only journalists close to the government are invited. The great majority of Ecuadorian independent…
Washington is garrisoning the planet : A new kind of militarism with imperial aspirations…
January 15, 2004, and TomDispatch had only been in existence for a year when Chalmers Johnson, author of the prophetic book Blowback (published in 2000 and a bestseller after the 9/11 attacks), did a piece for this site entitled “America’s Empire of Bases.” He wrote then: “Due to government secrecy, our citizens are…
Internet Freedoms Face Powerful Forces
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. In an interview with the Guardian, Brin warned there were “very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around…
Can Iran Change Its Mind About Nuclear
Editor’s Note: Meir Javedanfar is an Iranian – Israeli Middle East analyst and the co-author of The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and The State of Iran. The following post was originally published in The Diplomat, a stellar international current-affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific region. By Meir Javedanfar, The Diplomat The Iranian regime can live without its nuclear program….
Iran And A Nuclear Bomb
Iran recently unveiled what it described as ‘very big new achievements’ in nuclear science [Reuters] People & Power examines a dispute taking place against much sabre-rattling but in which the truth is hard to pin down. STORY HIGHLIGHTS International powers have agreed to resume nuclear talks with Tehran A top Iranian official says inspectors…