Jasmin Darznik: "The Good Daughter"
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-02-07/jasmin-darznik-good-daughter
Sarah Cramer Shields.
Jasmin Darznik was three when she moved with her parents from Iran to California during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. She grew up ashamed of her mother’s old world ways and resentful of her protectiveness. By the time she was in her twenties, Darznik wanted little to do with her mother. But after her father died, she found a photograph that made her realize how little about her mother she understood. Eventually, her mother unveiled her secrets, including marriage at 13, a baby at 14 and divorce by 15. It is a story that reveals a lot about the complex lives of women in Iran.
Guests
Jasmin Darznik
an assistant professor of English at Washington and Lee University, is the author of the memoir “The Good Daughter.”
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In the U.S. MSM there has been a steady stream of drum beating for a military confrontation with Iran since the invasion of Iraq. I can even turn on MSNBC Rachel Maddow's or NPR's Fresh Air hosted by Terri Gross and hear unsubstantiated claims about a nuclear weapons program and alleged quotes by the Iranian President about Israel be endlessly repeated. Can you please share your feelings about these claims.
Also we seldom ever hear mentioned in our MSM the U.S. CIA's role in overthrowing the democratically elected leader in Iran in the 50's. Can you also address this omission by our media and pundits.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Richard Engel and others keep hammering on how Egypt tried to shut down the internet and international journalist access to protesters. Rachel Maddow and reporter Richard Engel keep comparing Iran's attempt to shut down communication systems covering the Iranian protest. Which by the way Engel reported from and Rachel Maddow incessantly covered. But no one brings up how Israel is the very best at keeping the international media out. When was the last time you have heard Maddow, Engel, anyone reporting from a Palestinian protest (that have gone on for decades) or from an illegal Israeli settlement or a Palestinian refugee camp.
Interesting that Rachel, Engel and so many others want to compare Egypt's attempt shut down the media to Iran's efforts instead of Israel's continued successful ability to keep a wall of silence around what is going on in that conflict. MSNBC, Fox, CNN, Cspan and the rest are all on the same page on this issue. Keep the wall of Silence in place.
Israel is better than any other at keeping the media's wall of silence standing strong on the I/P conflict and illegal settlements
HOW LOW WILL THE US GOVERNMENT, OUR FOREIGN POLICY AND THE MEDIA WILL GO
http://usun.state.gov/briefing/statements/2011/155273.htm
Diane,
True journalism starts with covering your own back yard.
How and why WTC #7 has collapsed in free fall speed on Sept 11, 2001 @ 17:20:32
Statement by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on Richard Falk
Susan E. Rice
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
U.S. Mission to the United Nations
New York, NY
January 25, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
I am appalled by the recent personal blog written by Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.”
In this blog post, dated January 11, 2011, Mr. Falk endorses the slurs of conspiracy theorists who allege that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were perpetrated and then covered up by the U.S. government and media.
Mr. Falk’s comments are despicable and deeply offensive, and I condemn them in the strongest terms. I have registered a strong protest with the UN on behalf of the United States. The United States has in the past been critical of Mr. Falk’s one-sided and politicized approach to his work for the UN, including his failure to condemn deliberate human rights abuses by Hamas, but these blog comments are in another category altogether.
In my view, Mr. Falk’s latest commentary is so noxious that it should finally be plain to all that he should no longer continue in his position on behalf of the UN. I would note that U.S. and many other diplomats walked out in protest in September 2010 when Iranian President Ahmadinejad made similarly slanderous remarks before the UN General Assembly.
The United States is deeply committed to the cause of human rights and believes that cause will be better advanced without Mr. Falk and the distasteful sideshow he has chosen to create.
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