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Cherike-ye Bidang is a 2013 documentary by Narges Abyar, an Iranian writer and director. The story of the film happens in Sardasht, a city in northwest of Iran which was a target of a couple of chemical bombings by Iraq air-force on June 28, 1987 during the age of Saddam Hussein's ruling in Iraq. The movie shows the situation of the victims of those bombings through the eyes of children of a primary school who have an artistic group in which they play the story of those attacks and bombings. Many of the staff of the school were chemically affected and are still sick, but they somehow figured how to live with their situation.

A history of the twentieth century, by the numbers.

Visiting an experimental music professor of mine at IRCAM in Paris, we took a stroll for lunch. While he showed me along a tourist boulevard, we talked about American Musical mavericks, the course he was teaching in the fall. We then stumbled upon a man playing punk music on an electric guitar in the middle of the street.

There comes a time when the destructive actions and policies of leadership must be confronted by the people they represent. The national security enterprise has succeeded in developing a permanent system that diverts much of the country's resources to the military/intelligence/security sector. This action undermines and threatens the social and economic status of our nation. The event, Speaking Truth to Power: a permanent state of war was an evening of provocative commentary by a collection of powerful speakers from academia, political activism and advanced peace studies including veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who shared their personal stories and perspectives of our permanent state of war and the true costs on human life. We believe the American people must know the truth.

An epic drama about events on EuroMaidan and the WAR in Ukraine.

Childhood and happiness are great and sacred concepts. Even war, cannot destroy these profound and holy words.