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Nima Shirazi – Indoctrination and Education, Who's REALLY brainwashing our children?

By Nima Shirazi • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Education, Features, Ideas and Projects, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
- Maria Montessori, physician and educator
I am certainly not in the habit of defending Barack Obama against his detractors, but the controversy drummed up by rabid right-wing hysterics over President's back-to-school speech on Tuesday is quite simply bizarre and absurd. However, the manufactured uproar and [...]

Nima Shirazi – In Fraud, We Trust?

By Nima Shirazi • Jun 24th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Features, Newswire, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Douter de tout ou tout croire, ce sont deux solutions également commodes, qui l'une et l'autre nous dispensent de réfléchir.
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
- Jules Henri Poincaré, La Science et l'Hypothèse (1901)
By now, we all know the story:
Still high from Barack [...]

Nima Shirazi – On the Table & Off the Map: Threats, Lies, and Iranian Elections

By Nima Shirazi • Jun 12th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Religion, War

Eight days after Barack Obama delivered his much-touted speech in Cairo, Iranians are going to the polls to vote for their own president. Although reelection for incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seemed to be guaranteed just a few weeks ago, there now appears to be growing potential for an upset victory by challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi, who [...]

Nima Shirazi – Obama Speech Double Bill: A New Beginning or The Old Hypocrisy? and Electile Dysfunction

By Nima Shirazi • Jun 7th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Obama's Cairo Speech, Part I:
A New Beginning or The Old Hypocrisy?

On Thursday June 4, 2009 – the day before the 42nd anniversary of Israel's conquest of remaining Palestinian land, two days before the 65th anniversary of D-Day, and 425 years to the day that Sir Walter Raleigh established the first English colony in the New World on [...]