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How hate collides with arrogance

Mir Hussain Mahdavi
12 Feb 2012

A review of “How Iran Controls Afghanistan”, by Fariba Nawa.
Foreigner cultural influences in Afghanistan, especially our neighbors, have been a very important issue in Afghanistan’s contemporary history, but recently are becoming a politically problematic and theoretically ambiguous cultural matter to deal with.

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Who’s Running Covert Ops Against Iran?

Flynt Leverett
25 Jan 2012
We know and respect Mark Perry, and we do not question his reporting on his contacts and conversations with current and former U.S. intelligence officials. However, in order to assess U.S. involvement in the ongoing covert war against the Islamic Republic, it is important to put Mark’s story in a wider context Read more...

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Three Ripples from the Arab Spring

Shashank Joshi
3 Jan 2012
It is extraordinarily difficult to make sense of events in North Africa and the Middle East as they continue to unfold. In late 1978, as protests against modernising, yet unpopular, governments mounted in both Iran and Afghanistan, few would have understood the scale of the Islamist wave that would sweep the region over the following decade. Read more...

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Rebranding the Taliban

Mujib Mashal
30 Mar 2011
On March 28, the Federal District Court in Washington, DC, will hear a case on behalf of Khairullah Khairkhwa, a former high-ranking Taliban official who has been held at Guantanamo Bay for the past eight years. Read more...

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Western style of Freedom of Expression

M.Ghaznawi
18 Mar 2010
What is the western freedom of speech model? As I have experienced just in my taste is awesome: They censure your opinions if unveil their Taboos as easy as drinking water! Yahoo website, for example, has censured lots of my criticisms so far as the eye can reach! Read more...

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No more War Games and no more Peace Games

M.Ghaznawi
1 Feb 2010
This is a revised and somehow developed form of a comment posted under the article" No more war Games" written by "Robert Fox"and published online in Guardian News Paper. Therefore, the title of this post comes from the title of that article and is relevant to the writer’s approach toward new doctorine of war. Fox suggests peace and, so, he may propagandize against what he calls it "War Games"! But I have a different opinion on the shift of Westerns’ international and regional policy from war to peace--- as Fox wishes for. I think it is possible to have "Peace Games" as well as "War Games". Read more...

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