Mousavi Urges Defiance in the Streets

June 22, 2009

Mir Hossein Mousavi, the politician at the centre of Iran’s opposition movement, has encouraged his followers to continue their protests over the presidential election. In a statement on his website on Sunday, Mousavi said that people had the right to protest against “lies and fraud”, but urged them to show restraint as they take to […]

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North Korea Ship Suspected of Carrying Missiles

June 22, 2009

SEOUL, South Korea – A U.S. Navy destroyer is tailing a North Korean ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons toward Myanmar in what could be the first test of new U.N. sanctions against the North over its recent nuclear test, a leading TV network said Sunday. The South Korean news network YTN, citing an unidentified […]

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What the World Didn't See in Tehran

June 22, 2009

Iranian state television yesterday broadcast the soap operas and covered the news about Rafael Nadal’s withdrawal from Wimbledon and Pakistani operations against the Taliban as if they were the most important stories in the world. Meanwhile, arriving over the internet transom, rough and insistent and bloody, were the tiny electronic dispatches from protesters forced off […]

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Secor: Fighting Over the Iranian Revolution

June 22, 2009

The footage from Tehran today looks like urban warfare. Gone are the massive crowds. Instead we see bands of civilians under attack from bands of thugs, gunshots, flames, thin crowds chased through side streets. If the authorities succeed in keeping demonstrators dispersed and on the run, they could swiftly seize the upper hand. The Web […]

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Will the Economy's Green Shoots Wither?

June 22, 2009

Though sprigs of optimism permeate Wall Street, a bellwether business says it doesn’t know when things will get better. Meanwhile, mortgage rates are up, and boomers can’t even think about retiring. FedEx (FDX, news, msgs) last Wednesday tempered the enthusiasm of folks on “green shoot” watch. While stating its belief that the economy had hit […]

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Is Greenland the Next Energy Superpower?

June 22, 2009

In this summer of split-screen conflict, the world is focused on protests in Teheran and preparations for missile tests in Pyongyang – two reasons not to notice an event that might presage a new natural resource order for the 21st Century. Today in tiny Nuuk, capital city of Greenland – population 17,000; less than the […]

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Karzai's Chief Opponent: Interview with Ashraf Ghani

June 22, 2009

Former Afghan finance minister Ashraf Ghani is one of President Hamid Karzai’s most articulate and vociferous critics, and a chief contender against the incumbent in the upcoming August presidential election. A U.S.-educated former World Bank official, he quit Karzai’s cabinet in 2004, finding it corrupt, and has since then turned down “at least 100 offers” […]

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What Will Come of Iran? Rafsanjani Ally Calls for ‘Political Bloc’

June 22, 2009

A political party affiliated with Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the former president and key member of the Iranian regime, on Sunday called on Mir-Hossein Moussavi, the opposition leader, to form a “political bloc” that would pursue a long-term campaign to undermine the “illegitimate” government.

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The Seven Most Baffling Criminal Defenses That Sorta Worked

June 22, 2009

Let’s face it, people will say anything to get out of going to jail. For instance, stats show that less than one percent of insanity pleas actually work, since for every one guy who truly has something broken in his brain, there are at least 99 scumbags who’re just making shit up. Here are seven […]

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Smith: ABC Gives Platform to Obama, but Not to Critics

June 22, 2009

What former CBS news correspondent Bernard Goldberg identified in the title of his recent book, A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media, has not cooled in the slightest.

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