Washington Post Saturday:
Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, are crafting language for an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations.
Such an order would [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Meet the New Boss… Same as the Old Boss?
Posted in Human Rights, Meet the New Boss... Same as the Old Boss?, Politics, War on Terrorism on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“That Way Lies Madness”
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
CNN’s “GPS” with Fareed Zakaria featured an economics discussion with Paul Krugman vs John B. Taylor on . Normally I’d embed the video here but apparently CNN video is not currently compatable with wordpress.com blogs.
If you prefer to read through the interview, here’s a transcript of the show.
Iran as a Propaganda Tool in American Politics
Posted in Iran, Politics on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It shouldn’t come as a surprise, of course. And my biased and surely predictable perspective is that the hawkish right is using the current events in Iran to criticize the Obama Administration for appeasing or legitimizing the oppressive regime there.
And there has been no shortage of critics. On Friday, Charles Krauthammer could not have been [...]
Underground Iranian Newsletters Being Distributed by Protestors
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The L.A. Times reports that The European Photo Agency has posted a photo of an underground newspaper circulating among protestors in Iran.
Fellow WordPress blog, Iran In the Gulf, has linked a PDF file of the paper and has published some English translations.
Maziar Bahari
Posted in Iran on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The same contact that has provided me with the Facebook updates I’ve posted here tells me that his associate is also a friend of Maziar Bahari, a Newsweek reporter who has been detained in Iran.
Newsweek reported yesterday evening:
Among the dozens of people arrested overnight in Tehran was NEWSWEEK reporter Maziar Bahari, who has covered Iran [...]
Another Personal Account From Iran
Posted in Iran on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The same 3rd hand source as in the post below:
Iran June 20, 2009 – a friend’s account
We went today, all the routes were closed but we made it to about a km away from revolution square but at every intersection they had riot police dispersing us, wouldn’t let us get through.
We managed to get some [...]
Children Among the Goons
Posted in Iran on June 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday afternoon Nico Pitney posted an email he received from a contact in Iran:
You couldn’t imagin what I saw tonight, I walked down many streets(Vali asr, keshavars, amir abad, Fatemi, Shademan, Satarkhan, Khosro), and I was injured by tears gas, but the main thing : The big killer group, called “Basij”, weared our special military [...]
Kiwi!/Jules Mashup
Posted in Internet, Misc., Music on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kiwi! was an animated short that went viral fairly early in the era of Youtube.
I’d never seen this version until someone brought it to my attention very recently, but the short was set to Gary Jules’ cover of Mad World only a few months later.
Probably old news for most but I loved it [...]
International Solidarity
Posted in Freedom, Iran on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few photos making the rounds on Twitter:
A Hat Tip to Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney
Posted in Iran on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was his 6th consecutive day of live blogging the Iranian election fallout. He’s been invaluable in assembling order to the chaotic stream of information coming thorugh. Earlier he linked an excerpt from a Council on Foreign Relations interview with Carnegie Endowment Iran analyst Karim Sadjadpour:
The weight of the world now rests on [...]
I Wouldn’t Call Them Prodigies
Posted in Brooklyn, Music on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In fact after listening to samples from the Tiny masters Of Today’s earlier releases, I’m not convinced that young man could play his guitar at all prior to the recording of their current album, Skeletons.
Regardless, there is something to a child act that can achieve credibility in so rich an indie [...]
Iran
Posted in Iran on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The post-election events in Iran are probably the primary inspiration for my renewed interest in putting my thoughts in print. Much has happened, leaving an awful lot to digest. Andrew Sullivan’s work in has been simply tremendous. In fact his first post on the topic, published over a week before the election, [...]
Happy Birthday!
Posted in Site Developments on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After the election, which was the topic that dominated my work here last year, I was feeling burned out and very much unsure about the direction I wanted to take this blog. Following current events and politics did (and still does) remain a personal pursuit, but by the holidays, the focus of the national [...]
