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The essay On Liberty was written by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) in 1859. Mill warns about the tyranny of the majority. You can control the majority and get them to vote for, and elect, your candidates, then...

Yesterday I spoke to a friend who told me the blogger and journalist Hossein "Hoder" Derakhshan had been arrested in Tehran, Iran, November 1st 2008. The charges against him still seem fairly unknown and spans from anything from spying for...

Ghali Hassan/ uruknet/muslimindia (Gaza) ::At least 400 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were deliberately murdered and thousands are maimed and wounded when Israeli F-16 warplanes and Apache attack helicopters began premeditated massive aerial bombing attacks on the densely populated...

TEHAN, IRAN—In a defiant tone, the nuclear chief of Iran , said that his country “ pre-empted a conspiracy” by the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, by reporting the construction of a nuclear enrichment facility on Monday. Under...

We have heard over the years that the Israeli military is one of the finest, best trained in all the world. Despite this, they seem to be rather incompetent when you take the results of their actions and weigh them...

They say a picture tells more than a thousand words. In the human nature is to have your own space, and to control it. Now imagine someone else decides to take that space without any consent from you, based out...

Sociologist Kian Tajbakhsh has been arrested in Iran. He is both an American and Iranian citizen, though Iran does not recognize duel citizenship. He was detained in Iran from May to September of 2007 for breaching national security and had...