Category Archives: International issues

"The Real Struggle In Iran"

I’d highly recommend reading “The Real Struggle In Iran,” George Friedman’s analysis the recent events in Iran. I have no way of knowing if Friedman’s analysis is accurate or not; but it seems a good deal more plausible to me … Continue reading

Posted in International issues, Iraq | 7 Comments

Stand By Me – in Persian and English

This moved me: "Stand by Me" – Andy, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora & FriendsUploaded by MyDamnChannel. – News videos from around the world. Here is the copy from the website: “Stand by Me” On June 24, Iranian Superstar Andy … Continue reading

Posted in International issues, Iran | 2 Comments

Why Are Iranians Dreaming Again?*

[The following is a guest post from Ali Alizadeh, Researcher at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University who has asked bloggers to post this to their blogs.] This piece is copyright-free. Please distrbute widely. Iran is … Continue reading

Posted in International issues, Iran | 1 Comment

Get the word out!

One more addition before I have to get to work: Multiply this video–which is very graphic and disturbing, so viewer beware–many times over, and you’ll have a sense of what is going on and what is at stake: Edited to … Continue reading

Posted in International issues, Iran | 9 Comments

Post-Election Violence In Iran

People have been protesting in Iran in at least four or five cities: Tehran, Shiraz, Rasht, Mashhad and Tabtiz (which is now under some kind of lockdown). There is just too much going to follow in any coherent way right … Continue reading

Posted in International issues, Iran | 7 Comments

Silence is the Enemy

Marine biologist Sheril Kirshenbaum is, along with Chris Mooney, a co-blogger at The Intersection, a blog on science and public policy whose RSS feed should be in your reader, and if it isn’t, you should go, right now, and rectify … Continue reading

Posted in Africa, International issues, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 11 Comments

Darth Crashcart Unplugged

You know, I’m not sure what Barack Obama did to get the newsmedia to have his speech followed by an address by former Vice President and current Sith Lord Dick Cheney, but he should do it more often. After all, … Continue reading

Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., International issues | 29 Comments

Can Israel Legally Defend Itself?

Daniel Taub in The Boston Globe: …The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian territories, […] Richard Falk, recently issued a report that goes one remarkable step further. In the conditions existing in Gaza, he asserts, any Israel … Continue reading

Posted in Palestine & Israel | 35 Comments

Naomi Klein on BDS

I’ve taken a long time to write about this because I wanted to make sure I had my thoughts on it sorted out. This article by Naomi Klein finally brought me around to the BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) campaign against … Continue reading

Posted in Anti-Semitism, International issues, Palestine & Israel | 68 Comments

Here Comes Another Post About Mexico

Auguste is right — this really might be the dumbest cartoon ever in the history of the entire universe. And this is not just the universe where Chris Muir lives, but the one Bruce Tinsley lives in, too! I’m not … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Health Care and Related Issues, Immigration, Migrant Rights, etc, Latin America | 33 Comments