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- Style over substance
This irks me a bit. Slate’s Ryan Grim wrote :
The 14 male sailors were dressed in snazzy if ill-fitting suits, stylishly without ties; the female sailor was decked in what looked to be clothes from a Tehran thrift store.
Other than the ad hominem attack on Iranian fashion, the authour seems rather ill-informed. To dress “without [...]
- Lessons Learned
After 13 days the 15 British sailors and marines were freed by “Mahmoud the Magnanimous” as a “gift” to the British people in celebration of the Prophet’s birthday and Easter. Near the end of the crisis there was a lot of activity with talk of ratcheting up sanctions, a demonstration of a split within Iranian [...]
- Forecasting April showers
John Robb and Bill Lind are thinking the same thing on a possible April strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Lind says :
... starting about two weeks ago, the Russians have pulled out the hundreds of people they had working on Iran’s first nuclear power plant, now nearing completion. ... If in fact Washington plans to [...]
- 1979 Part 2
Bloggers are all over the board on Iran’s capture of 15 British sailors, wondering if this is a rerun of American embassy hostage crisis. Allahpundit figures
... they’ll be released soon and the incident will be dismissed as a misunderstanding. Iran can’t have meant to do this, not with Ahmadinejad set to address the Security Council [...]
- War is dynamic
Rumours regarding a possible purchase of 80 German Leopard tanks (walkaround here) by the Canadian Forces have been swirling around once again. Globe and Mail reporter David Ebner casts doubt on the sensibleness of the purchase by dredging up statements by Chief of the Defence Staff General Rick Hillier in 2003. The article states that [...]
- The spreading tides of war
The war in Afghanistan has taken on numerous facets. The Canadians are fighting an insurgency, the Americans a drug war, and Pakistan a border war. What about the Afghans? Looks like they might be considering an all out war with Pakistan. Last December Pakistan annnounced a plan for putting razorwire and mines along the border. [...]
- Tagging Tehran
“Mind Control”Â? is written in Farsi on this image. It refers to the propaganda promoting a unity of islamic countries in universities and public spaces. from PingMag
Japan-based art and design webzine PingMag has a great interview with Tehrani graffiti artist A1one. The article gives some insight into the youth and street culture of urban [...]
- The art of writing
One of the biggest referrals we get to the site is through Google Image searches for the calligraphy featured in a post from 2 years ago: Art and War. It is a beautiful piece of Sudanese art.
PingMag, my favourite Tokyo-based design magazine, has a great indepth article on Iranian calligraphy and graphic design. If you [...]
- “Best regards, Ahmadinejad”
Iranian President Ahmadinejad just issued an open letter to the American people. You can read the entire text here, but I’ve included a few portions below.
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While Divine providence has placed Iran and the United States geographically far apart, we should be cognizant that human values and our common human spirit, which proclaim [...]
- Indian giving
NATO will be meeting this week in Riga to discuss, among other things, the ISAF mission. Canada and the Netherlands will be putting pressure on NATO member nations to step up their activities. The Dutch and the Canadians, along with the Brits and the Americans have been taking most of the punishment in southern Afghanistan. [...]
