June 2009
WatchI steal everything from soupsoup:
When MTV mattered. [Wonder if Fred Seibert had a hand in this? -Ed.]
Son's Death Has Iranian Family Asking Why →
soupsoup:
WSJ
The family, clad in black, stood at the curb of the road sobbing. A middle-aged mother slapped her cheeks, letting out piercing wails. The father, a frail man who worked as a doorman at a clinic in central Tehran, wept quietly with his head bowed.
Minutes before, an ambulance had arrived from Tehran’s morgue carrying the body of their only son, 19-year-old Kaveh Alipour.
On...
“Not only does the single death find more meaning than had it not been recorded,...”
– Thomas Paladino, Details Emerge About Neda, the voice of the Iranian Revolution (via soupsoup)
WatchGoodbye, Lowry bridge. Hello, car alarms.
The New Transparency →
Government has been murdering its own citizens for as long as we’ve had government, particularly when the people begin to pose a threat to those in power. The difference is that now, the entire world is watching. Iran’s brutality is on display for everyone to see, archived for history, in a way that we didn’t have even in Tiananmen, and haven’t had for most of human history. That, at least, is...
Watchnoneck:
yatta! yatta!
