A new Australian film, My Tehran for Sale, has just been released and tells the story of young Iranians in Tehran struggling to survive in a brutal dictatorship. Shot largely undercover for security reasons, its appearance is a success in itself:
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Iranians still breathing towards freedom
Despite all the obstacles, dissent in the Islamic Republic powers on: Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said yesterday that the reform movement would not be cowed by the hardline government’s harsh methods as riot police prevented a demonstration by moderates taking place. Mr Mousavi’s remarks preceded a scheduled gathering by moderates to commemorate the killing…
How the Israel lobby infects the brightest minds
Adam Shapiro, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and human rights activist, is currently working with the Free Gaza Movement. This is his latest article: One year ago, I watched election results coming in for Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District, where my friend and colleague Tom Perriello was challenging incumbent Virgil Goode, Jr. CNN kept flipping the winner…
Everybody Poops gets an Israeli make-over
News just in! Japanese author Taro Gomi’s beloved children’s book, Everyone Poops, will soon be available in Hebrew. The book candidly and delightfully presents defecation as a natural bodily function performed by virtually every sentient life form on our shared planet. In Everyone Poops, eliminating waste is unselfconscious, essential and nothing to be ashamed of.…
World, get ready for some Israeli bombing soon enough
Aluf Benn of Haaretz speaks to Benjamin Netanyahu, and apart from believing the Israeli leader’s supposed sincerity towards peace with the Palestinians, shares this gem: It appears that Netanyahu is preparing for war against Iran and Hezbollah in the coming spring, when the snows melt and the clouds clear. Evidence of this is the additional…
What has happened to Iran since June?
Iran after its disputed June elections is a dark and foreboding place. A face of the uprising was Neda, a pretty young woman shot dead by Islamic Republic goons. This feature in yesterday’s Observer features an interview with her partner, Caspian Makan. It’s an amazing piece of journalism, revealing the reality for dissenters, the desire…
When one, tiny nation didn’t like war crimes in Gaza
Satire is dead. One little country dares vote to investigate war crimes in Gaza and the Jewish state is appalled, outraged and probably about to accuse the country of anti-Semitism. Ludicrous: Israel is sending a foreign ministry official to the Solomon Islands next week to seek an explanation as to why it was the only…
Prominent Jew helps Iran remain front and centre
Republican Whip Eric Cantor reminded the 2009 General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington this week that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “the man holding the gun with which he vows to kill Israel and the Jews”: Some Jews always need an enemy.
Ahmadinejad wonders just what Obama has really achieved
The Guardian asks Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad what it would take to normalise relations with the US: Change should happen in practice. Which change has happened? Was Guantánamo Bay shut down? Were the US policies supporting Zionists and the mass murder of Palestinians stopped? Were the US policies in Afghanistan changed? Were the policies in…