Persicus Maximus

Wikileaks is one hell of an entity, we all know and appreciate it. The latest release of documents are without doubt one of the most antiwar, anti establishment and pro humanitarian act an entity as such could possibly have done. There is a “but“ here and by looking at the index of theses documents and the summery of its statistical highlights, it causes an inevitable feeling of seeing an elegant flow of disinformation….. We all know and have seen enough evidence to know the atrocities and injustices that have occurred in the past decade, irretrievably that of one of USA’s sixteen secret service establishments or carried out by private security militia organizations a la “Xe” better known as “BlackWater”, not to mention the audacity with which the professional US military interpreted/twisted international law beyond recognition, by legalizing torture through their highest elected/appointed officials…etc.etc.etc. Now, if we were an officer of one of the countless (sixteen) intelligence...

The classical definition of democracy is “a form of Government in which governing power is derived from the people, either by direct referendum or by means of elected representatives of the people” but try asking individuals on the streets of different western democracies regardless of them being new democracies or old ones, none would or could give you a unified or half decent definition. In the last 10 years, better said as of the 9/11 events, now authentic or induced, certain political streams based invariably in different Western democracies owing all they know and posses to the very Western democracies they live in yet, ruthlessly busy remodeling and re defying these democracies only to secure their economical and political interests. Generating fears amongst populations by bombarding them with 24 hour multidimensional reporting systems using their since the 80’s as corporate overtaken and managed news outlets. Freedoms of expression was slowly shepherded into a one sided propagan...

There is an interesting and hugely disturbing documentary made by Mercury Media called This is my land Hebron. It is a film made by Jews over another group of Jews who are holding a very large group of Palestinians hostage in Hebron (Israel/Palestine). This particular group of no more than 500 excessively fanatical and fascistic Jews claim that Hebron is the birthplace of the Jewish faith and is therefore rightfully theirs as God supposedly have said so. The Israeli government expectedly lets them hold over 120.000 Palestinians hostage. They (Israeli soldiers) close off street, shut shops and drive families from their homes under the guise of national security. These Israeli soldiers are officially there to make sure both the Jewish settlers and the Palestinian inhabitants come to no harm, but unofficially they let the settlers do what they want - throw stones at schoolchildren, prevent farmers from harvesting their crops, beat up kids, calls people Nazis and etc. The most disturbin...

Hooman Majid has written an interesting article, which I would like to reflect here for your attention. "At a time when there is great debate about the efficacy of the latest round of sanctions on Iran -- pressure intended to change Iran’s behavior -- the question shouldn’t be whether sanctions are having a painful effect, which of course they are, but whether sanctions will achieve the intended result. Essentially the sanctions, imposed by both the U.N. and individual countries, seek to force Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and bow to the West in its demands that it prove its nuclear program is entirely peaceful. There is no reason to believe that sanctions, or any other form of pressure on Iran, will bring this result. The Islamic Republic’s foreign policy is founded on the principle, etched into tile at the entrance to the Foreign Ministry, that Iran is a truly independent nation. “Neither East nor West; Islamic Republic,” the slogan reads, written at a time when most cou...

Maziar Jobrani is no stranger to the Iranians across the world and we had a post on him Feb 2009. Click here!to refresh your memory. However his new DVD seems quite hilarious and highly recommended…underneath some excerpts. He also has a Homepage you might like to visit. http://mazjobrani.com

Whether it is envy or threat that feeds into Arab fear of Iran, but the pathological insistence of reducing Iran into an emotive adversary whose behavior is solely shaped by Shiite doctrine, as done by some Arab news outlets, points at a high degree of “envy” . Some of Iran’s virtues, Arab literature would like to have credited Arabs with, seems reason enough to constantly attack and ridicule Iran and Iranians with, amongst them that plural source of self-regeneration and self-belief. The lack of which is not an Iranian problem but an Arab problem. The pages of “some” Arab dailies have for sometimes been drumming up public hysteria over the Iranian nuclear project. For instance the ‘Al-Sharq Al-Awsat’ (Arab Paper) has been itching for a war with Iran for some time. By deploying a psychology of fear and ‘demonization’, These Arab war-mongers impel their audiences toward a stand-or-die attitude in the defense of entrenched and often mindless positions. To this end, some hawkish voice...