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What The Media Wants You To Forget The corporate media have been given their orders to throw the focus back on to Iran . Here is a recap of what they are trying to make you forget. 1. Last Spring,   Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington's chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.   Israel refused. 2.   The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections.   Israel refused. 3.   The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections.   Israel refused. 4.   Iran's formal notification to the IAEA of the planned construction of the backup fuel-rod facility underscores that Iran is playing by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran has signed. 5.   Iran allows IAEA inspections   of all its facilities. 6. Contrary to face-savi...

By Benjamin Joffee – WALT / The Media Line 20-08-2010 Home grown search engine set to go by 2012 It all began in the early 1990’s with Internet search engine startups like Excite, Galaxy, Lycos and Webcrawler. Then Yahoo and Alta Vista moved in, followed only a few years later by what would become the neighborhood bully: Google.   Now Iran would like to introduce the new kid on the block... Ladies and Gentelmen, please welcome ‘Oh Lord,’ a homegrown Iranian search engine sure to highlight very high resolution photos of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the regretful testimony of green movement opposition activists.   Hadi Malek-Parast, Director General for Research and Development at the Iranian Information Technology Company, told the Iranian Mehr News Agency on Sunday that Iran has started developing a national search enginged dubbed ‘Ya Haq’, a Persian expression meaning “Oh Lord.” Speaking of the need for faster search capacity and higher security for the cou...

The imminent departure of John Limbert , the US administration’s leading point man on Iran , is casting further doubt on the feasibility of engaging the Islamic Republic. But if Iran ’s politically tumultuous history is any guide, the opposition Green movement will survive its current downturn, consolidate and emerge as a force for democratic change, Michael Singh argues in Foreign Affairs . “After all, movements propelled by similar social currents have succeeded in dramatically changing Iran in the past,” he notes, citing the Constitutional Revolution of 1905–11; the Mossadeq era of 1951–3; and the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Each episode emerged from the confluence of popular anger over corruption, a rupture between ruling and clerical classes, and discontent over foreign relations, writes Singh, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. In each instance, secular and liberal forces temporarily aligned with politically active clergy in opposition. But int...

The George Polk Awards, one of the most important annual journalism prizes, has honoured the anonymous video of the death of Neda Aghan-Soltan during the 2009 Iranian election protests. The new videography category reflects the increasing importance of user contributions to journalism in an era where cameras are commonplace. It is the first time in the 61-year history of the awards that a work produced anonymously has won. "This award celebrates the fact that, in today's world, a brave bystander with a cellphone camera can use video-sharing and social networking sites to deliver news," said the New York Times' John Darnton, the curator of the Polk Awards. (via journalism.co.uk, NYTimes.com) SOURCE : http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/feb/16/george-polk-awards - Posted by Mercedes Bunz Tuesday 16 February 2010 11.46 GMT guardian.co.uk ******************************************* Note : Who is Neda Agha Soltan? It seems that every revolution or...