15Jul/08

Defient Mood in Teheran

 

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As a sign of the troubled relations between Tehran and the West, Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno just renamed the street next to the Iranian embassy “July 9th St.” – after the date symbolizing the 1999 student pro-democracy demonstrations in Tehran. Iran responded angrily, but at the same time released a statement by its foreign minister about possible progress in negotiations over its nuclear program. While the diplomatic rhetoric may appear ambivalent, Tehran’s domestic actions appear much more clear and defiant. Last Tuesday, Iran hanged another teenager, 19-year-old Hamid Reza, who was convicted of murder. The country’s parliament is also considering a bill that could result in the death penalty being used for those deemed to be promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy on the Internet.

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27Jun/08

Net activism rattles Arabs

June 27th, 2008 

 

FACEBOOK, the popular social networking site, is becoming more than just a cyber meeting place as it turns into a powerful vehicle for social change.

Squeezing out MySpaceas the site of the moment and with 75million users (more than the population of most countries), it appears to be the most popular meeting place in the virtual world.

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11Jun/08

En Surveillant le Chien de Garde

Monday 29 October [13:23:00 GMT] 

S’agit-il d’un sale petit secret, dont FR2 et son reporter, Charles Enderlin, entendent empêcher la révélation au tribunal ?

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ? “Qui surveille le gardien ?” demanda le poète romain Juvénal, paraphrasant une problématique centrale évoquée par Platon dans La République.

La recherche de la “Justice” est un art difficile, dans un monde complexe, qui nous demande d’émettre des jugements à l’emporte-pièce sur des sujets critiques, tels que le réchauffement climatique, la politique internationale, la paix et la guerre. Continue reading