Ten Tumultuous Days

TEN TUMULTUOUS DAYS Ardeshir Ommani, July 11, 2009   The ten days of turmoil in the aftermath of Iran’s presidential election sharply divided world public opinion into two opposite poles: those who believed in and supported Iran’s sovereignty and...

Mark Dunlea on health care fight

Lessons from the health care fight - and future directions.   by Mark Dunlea   Once again America has failed to join the rest of the industrial world in achieving universal health care - though in the best Orwellian tradition, the Democratic Party and many...

Iran

Rezaee, Election Debate, and the Rafsanjani Bombshell   In the debate Ahamadinejad (AN) shocked everyone by asking "is the Rafsanjani aristocracy establishment supposed to perpetuate?" If we could put Mohsen Rezaee's (member of the Expediency Council)...

Jews Confront Zionism

The most outrageous news in this week's digest is the Israeli attack on the "Spirit of Humanity" boat in International waters kidnapping human rights activists and confiscating humanitarian supplies bound for Gaza (just happened).  This is simple piracy...

Jordanian Poet Sentenced to One Year

Sign the petition: http://translate. google.com/ translate? u=http:// www.ahewar. org/camp/ i.asp?id= 152&langpair=ar| en&hl=en&ie=UTF8     Court Sentence Boosting Vibes of Extremism and Terrorism Jordanian Poet Islam Samhan Sentenced One Year,...

Political Dissidents in Egypt

From Saad Ibrahim: In 2000, I was arrested in my home in Egypt and sentenced to seven years in prison under false charges – just because I was planning to monitor my own country's elections. But I'm not writing just to tell you my story – I'm...

Analysis of recent events in Iran

June 22, 2009 By George Friedman     Successful revolutions have three phases. First, a strategically located single or limited segment of society begins vocally to express resentment, asserting itself in the streets of a major city, usually the capital....

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