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Noam Chomsky: Iran Pursuing Nuclear Weapons Out of Fear
by Matthew W. Hutchins Even the most radical conservative can agree with Noam Chomsky on at least one thing. "No one in their right mind wants Iran to develop nuclear weapons." But to Chomsky, nonproliferation requires reciprocal action, rather than international condemnation...His conclusion is that Iran is developing nuclear weapons out of a rational fear for its national safety because of the systematically threatening posture of the United States and Israel. read more more >>
Dossier Palestine : 1972-1982, le rêve perdu d’un islamo-communisme
Un dossier spécial tiré du numéro de février 2010 du mensuel Alternative libertaire Socialisme, nationalisme, islamisme… les frontières idéologiques sont parfois poreuses au Moyen-Orient. Dans les années 1970, les maoïstes libano-palestiniens ont tenté une synthèse originale, avant de se rallier à la Révolution iranienne. more >>
Prevent another Holocaust...BOMB IRAN! (by Latuff)
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff. more >>
Basr Interviews Shahrzad Mojab on the Women's Movement in Iran
The following excerpts are from an interview by the Iranian student’s newspaper Bazr (issue 45-February 2010) with Shahrzad Mojab. This long interview is on the current political and social situation in Iran. The section excerpted here concerns the woman question and the role of Iranian women in the recent struggle that we are reprinting on the occasion of 8th March, International Women’s Day. Shahrzad Mojab is an Iranian women activist and researcher who left Iran in 1983. She is the author of numerous papers and books on Iranian women, Kurdish women, and women in war zones. Mojab is currently a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. Translation by A WorldTo Win News Service. more >>
Peak oil, gas, prices, and supplies - Mar 11
-Is East Africa the Next Frontier for Oil?-'Market can absorb spare Saudi capacity' - Al Falih-Royal Dutch Shell halts gasoline sales to Iran-Traders bet on higher gasoline prices-How a 22-year-old student uncovered peak oil fraud read more more >>
Better U.S. Net Rules for Iran, Cuba and Syria
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Monday key amendments to the regulation of United States sanctions against Cuba, Iran and Sudan. The new provisions give a blanket license for the export of "certain services and software incident to the exchange of personal communications over the Internet, such as instant messaging, chat and email, social networking, sharing of photos and movies, web browsing, and blogging, provided that such services are publicly available at no cost to the user." This clarification is just what EFF called for last June, and will go a long way to allay concerns that online service providers based in the U.S. cannot offer their services in those countries. Previously, despite the well-known freedom-enhancing capabilities of services like Twitter and Facebook in repressive regimes like Iran, it was unclear whether those companies could even offer their services there without falling foul of the United State's broad prohibition on the export of goods and services to these regimes. This was not a hypothetical concern: other services that were useful for dissidents to communicate and organize, like Microsoft, and Google's instant messaging clients had previously been blocked from being used in these very countries -- not by the repressive states, but by companies themselves, cautious of violating sanctions. While the change in the letter of the law is clearly positive, perhaps just as important is the signal this sends about the administration's new guiding policy on global Internet freedom. Previously, cautious companies, afraid of running afoul of OFAC, have frequently forbidden or blocked all use in sanctioned countries, even when the letter of the law did not require such draconian steps. You can see this institutionally paranoid language, and its inevitable results, in Bluehost's terms of service, which pre-emptively prohibits all citizens of sanctioned countries from even applying to use their hosting facilities (a policy which lead them to shamefully throwing innocent Zimbabwean activists off their service last year). Now we are moving (slowly) to a new, and better default, where technologists and their lawyers might assume that free Internet services that facilitate free expression and association need not be blocked pre-emptively for anyone, anywhere. The Obama administration has shown with these changes that it would prefer to move toward that end. Have we got there yet? Is it what export law now says? While we wait for export regulation experts to sweat the details, the answer is still far too hazy for comfort. While the State and Treasury departments have fixed much that was wrong with Iranian, Cuban and Sudanese sanctions, there are still regulations on, for instance, Zimbabwe, Syria and North Korea for techies and their lawyers to worry about, and those sanctions still inhibit making software generally available. We also would like to see more clarity about collaborative software development locations, like Sourceforge. We hope that this administration backs up these first steps with a continuing review of export rules, and pro-actively works to reassure Internet companies that they are free to build an open Internet for everyone, without expecting a knock on the door from their own government. more >>
Iran Is A Threat To Peace! Iran Is A Threat To Peace! (by Latuff)
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff. more >>
dpa: Turkish soldier killed in explosion near Iraq border
A soldier was killed Tuesday by an explosion in Turkey's restive southeast region, Turkish media has reported. The explosion in the Hakkari region, reportedly caused by a bomb set off by remote control, injured three other soldiers. Another soldier was killed Monday by an explosion in the same area, near Turkey's border with Iraq and Iran. more >>
Solidarity with Women in Iran
More than 50 men and women, mainly Iranians, took part in a protest organised by the 8 March Women's Organsiation (Iran-Afghanistan) to mark International Women's Day. They protested at the Iranian Embassy against the 31 years of anti-women Islamic laws and repression and calling for an end to the Islamic regime in Iran before marching to Trafalgar Square for a rally. London 07/03/2010 more >>
Stop the removal of Benjamin!
Please help Hussein Karimyon (Benjamin) Home Office Ref K1307066/2 Hussein Karimyon, known as Benjamin to his friends, is a 37-year old Iranian human rights campaigner. Detained buy the UK Border Agency and facing imminent deportation, he urgently needs your help and solidarity. See below for model letters. Hussein is an Iranian who had to flee his country after [...] more >>
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Sweden: Rosengård riots abate after two violent nights
from thelocal.se, 20 December 2008: "The streets of Malmö’s Rosengård district were relatively calm on Friday evening, as the hundreds of youth who rioted earlier in the week refrained from engaging in renewed clashes with police. After cars and garbage bins were set ablaze and stones were thrown against police in violent clashes on Wednesday and Thursday in the heavily-immigrant populated neighbourhood of Rosengård, youths assembled relatively quietly on Friday..." more
Greece: riots against police murder continue
Updated 8 December 2008: The Greek embassy in London was blockaded by protestors. There have been some arrests - more soon +++ More rioting is expected in Athens and across Greece on Monday (8 December 2008) as protests and insurrections continue.
On the night of Saturday 6 December 2008 police in Exarchia Square in Athens shot and killed Alexandros Grigoropoulos, aged 15. Thousands have rioted in many cities, including Athens, Thessaloniki, Chania and Patras... more
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