Posted in TV, video, cartoon, Pakistan, Free Speech on Feb 24th, 2008
It was just months ago that Pakistan’s emergency government shut down outlets of traditional media — TV channels, newspapers, magazines, but only few internet resources — in hopes of controlling a brewing public opinion that the government needed to be checked. In a more recent crack down, they appear to have gotten the memo about […]
Posted in Free Speech on Nov 20th, 2007
Bilal Hussein, a renown and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer with the AP, has been detained by U.S. authorities in Iraq since Apr. 2006. They suggest that the Fallujah-native’s unique access to terrorists and his inaction in fighting them makes him suspect. His defenders maintain that it is his compassion for all Iraqis, whom he has sheltered […]
Posted in fashion, Burma, Free Speech on Sep 25th, 2007
In Burma, it?s all the rave right now. Shaved heads are so in. Robes too. Just in time for autumn.
The monks have been turning heads all over Burma, strutting up and down runways 1 km long in their savvy-but-simple garb. And they?ve had quite a showing ? 100,000 people came to celebrate the latest from […]
Posted in Iran, Free Speech on Sep 10th, 2007
A friend of mine brought a New York Times Op/Ed article to my attention by a female Iranian journalist?Camelia Antekhabifard?who refuses to write in her home country again. A bad taste still lingers on her tongue and typewriter.
The taste is something like the mushrooms her uncle used to her as a child:
On many early mornings […]
Posted in children, Iran, Free Speech on Aug 6th, 2007
Last week, over 200 Iranian youth were detained for attending a concert that featured Western influenced artists. Rap was bumpin’ and mosh pits were jumpin’. There was booze. 150 bottles of it. There were women, too. And they were dancing. With boys. Mixing with mixers.
All of this constituted as immoral behavior, in violation of Sharia […]
Posted in children, Iran, Free Speech on Jul 17th, 2007
The head Honcho, the big Nacho Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a new message for his young martyrs.
He’s told them the nation is in crisis. The war between the hegemonic and the subversive is changing. And he’s not promising heaven or eternal peace on a swollen cloud cushioned by several soft and voluptuousness virgins.
The country’s […]
Posted in Iran, Free Speech on Jun 27th, 2007
Iran?s new enemy is children. The head of their National Security Council said it himself : ?The Islamic Republic is powerful and will not allow a bunch of little children to disrupt anything.?
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