Iran: the wrong threat: Article by Ignacio Ramonet. Intro: >Along the beautiful avenues of Tehran, with their apocalyptic traffic jams, you don’t get the sense that people are particularly worried by the threat that the United States - currently present and nearby in Iraq and Afghanistan - is about to knock at the gates. No feverish activity at the airports, where security measures seem ridiculously lax compared with those in Europe and the US. Local media don’t have much to say about it; they are more concerned with President Mohammad Khatami’s trip to Africa, the trial of Charles Graner, "the torturer of Abu Ghraib", and elections in Iraq.< Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
