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Entries from November 2008

El Gran Hermano iraní

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Iran, Spanish

“La ignorancia es poder”, escribía George Orwell, en su clásico 1984, a propósito de la censura que practicaba en dicha novela la Policía del Pensamiento para que las ideas perniciosas no llegaran a las buenas personas. Por desgracia, el discurso del Gran Hermano ha hecho acto de presencia frecuentemente en la historia de la Humanidad.

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On Annan, Robinson, Religion and Hypocrisy

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Iran, Middle East

Nov. 10, 2008 NIR BOMS and SHAYAN ARYA , THE JERUSALEM POST Following the passage in Teheran of a new Islamic Penal Code, which codifies the death penalty for males who abandon Islam, the Iranian government called for a conference on “Religion in the Modern World.” With former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, former high commissioner [...]

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