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Taliban

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There are NO human rights violations in Iran: Answer to Dr Alon Ben-Meir

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There are NO human rights violations in Iran: Answer to Dr Alon Ben-Meir

There are no human rights in Islam, so there can be no human rights in an Islamic Republic. There are no human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, so there can be no human rights violations in Iran.

Anatomy of a madness, Part 1

Anatomy of a madness, Part 1

I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.

Words, propaganda and head of a newborn babe, Part 1

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Words, propaganda and head of a newborn babe, Part 1

It is possible that this was not a crime, but it was most certainly not a "botched surgery," as some are so anxious to declare.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 12

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 12

"a boot stamping on a human face, forever." — George Orwell.