Tuesday, June 23, 2009
#IranElection: A Round-up of Links
BE FOREWARNED, this is the video of Neda Soltan dying after being shot by Irani militia that has made headlines around the world over the past couple of days. It is EXTREMELY graphic:
And here's more links to keep you informed on what's going on in Iran post their contested recent national election:
Iran Update.
Huffington Post's Iran Election Live Blog.
Tehran: Iran Updates.
Newsweek's Iran coverage.
Also, show your solidarity for democracy in Iran on Twitter by turning your profile picture green:
via Help Iran Election
via Iran Green Thumbnails
Or here's a couple other ways to do it:
via @MsDrrema and via @dkclay.
Related:
Obama: Right on the Iranian Election Protests?
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And here's more links to keep you informed on what's going on in Iran post their contested recent national election:
Iran Update.
Huffington Post's Iran Election Live Blog.
Tehran: Iran Updates.
Newsweek's Iran coverage.
Also, show your solidarity for democracy in Iran on Twitter by turning your profile picture green:
via Help Iran Election
via Iran Green Thumbnails
Or here's a couple other ways to do it:
via @MsDrrema and via @dkclay.
Related:
Obama: Right on the Iranian Election Protests?
Labels: Iran, Iran Election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Friday, June 19, 2009
Obama: Right on the Iranian Election Protests?
John Kerry agrees with him, Henry Kissinger agrees with his position. Even crazy Pat Buchannan agrees that Obama is right.
So tonight, get on your knees and thank God that John McCain and his reckless talk didn't make it into the White House last November.
Labels: Barack Obama, Iran
Saturday, June 13, 2009
It's Getting SUPER REAL in Iran!!!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
AP Video: Obama: US Journalist Jailed in Iran Not a Spy
Related:
Iranian President Asks Court to Reconsider Spy Case. [NY Times]
Hmm, a good sign obviously but what to make of this gesture by Ahmadinejad?
Labels: Barack Obama, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Iranian hip hop: Yas - "Solh Toei (Rumi's Song)"
Monday, March 17, 2008
Fallon resigns as Mideast military chief
From a USA Today article by Jim Michaels:
"The top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday a week after the publication of a magazine article that described him as being at odds with the Bush administration's stance toward Iran.In a profile in Esquire magazine, author Thomas P.M. Barnett described Adm. William Fallon as "brazenly" challenging the Bush administration and pushing back against a president "who trash-talks his way to World War III" with Iran.
Fallon denied a difference in policy, but called the news reports a distraction. "The simple perception that there is makes it difficult for me to effectively serve America's interests," Fallon said in a statement."
Click here for the full article.
Labels: GOP fearmongering, GOP incompetence, Iran, War on Terror
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Dick Cheney: now wrong on Iran too....
From a NY Times article by Mark Mazzetti:
"A new assessment by American intelligence agencies released Monday concludes(click here for the full article)
that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program
remains frozen, contradicting a judgment two years ago that Tehran was working
relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb. [emphasis added]"
So Cheney, fall back and be easy with the overheated rhetoric!
Update:
Israeli officials reject U.S. findings on Iran: surprise.
Labels: Dick Cheney, GOP fearmongering, GOP incompetence, Iran, War on Terror
Sunday, October 21, 2007
War on Terror/Freedom in Iraq & the Middle East update
Peace in Pakistan!
Remember how Bush used to say that a 'free Iraq' (that is, one liberated from the Saddam Hussein regime and democratically electing governments) would lead to a spread of freedom and democracy throughout the Middle East? So four years later, how's that strategy going?
Peace in the Middle East:
In Iraq: "Iraqi officials expressed outrage early Sunday at what they say are civilian deaths in the wake of a massive military operation in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood.
The U.S. military said its ground forces are "unaware" of civilian deaths in the early morning raid that it said left 49 "criminals" dead." [from "U.S. forces battle militants in Sadr City" - CNN]
Iraq/Turkey-related: 12 Turkish Soldiers Killed in Kurdish Rebel Attack. [NYT]
And in Pakistan: "Two bombs exploded Thursday just seconds apart and feet from a truck carrying the returning opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, narrowly missing her but killing scores of people and bloodying her triumphal homecoming after eight years in exile.
According to reports on local news stations late Friday morning, 134 people had been killed and about 400 wounded." [NYT]
Homeland Security:
TSA report: most fake bombs missed by screeners. [USA Today]
J.F.K. Workers Moved Drugs, Authorities Say. Not that I believe it, but could dirty bombs be next? [NYT]
So much for peace in the Middle East! And while he should be worried about more "mundane" holes in basic security like the above, Bush continues on with his lunatic "war on terror" and his demented belief in visions of World War III starting if Iran goes nuclear. C'mon, is he friggin' serious?! [NYT]
Labels: Benazir Bhutto, George Bush, GOP incompetence, Homeland Security, Iran, Iraq war, Pakistan, War on Terror
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Where will the 'Nuclear Holocaust' be?
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Ahmadinejad says, "Iran: No Homo"
I wasn't against him coming to speak in the US or at Columbia but it's funny how his views on homosexuality fall pretty much in line with those of the majority in hip hop. More via amNY and Newsday.
Labels: Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, No Homo
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
War on Terror Update: it's ALL f-ckin' fallin' apart....
Pleasant trip to Afghanistan, Dick?
Thoughts from NOW magazine on the possible Iran war Bush seems to be itching to launch:
"Many people listen to the White House these days and conclude that a U.S. attack on Iran is imminent: "To be quite honest, I'm a little concerned that it's Iraq again," as Senator John Rockefeller, the new chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said recently.
Some senior U.S. soldiers were worried about the strategic wisdom and even the legality of invading Iraq, but nobody resigned over it. It was obvious that the U.S. would win the actual war quickly and cheaply, and almost nobody worried about the aftermath.
But an attack on Iran is different, even though it would not involve American ground troops (since all available U.S. combat troops are committed to Iraq), because any competent general knows that this is a war the U.S. cannot win.
Air strikes alone cannot win a war, however massive they are, and they probably could not even destroy all of Iran's nuclear facilities, which are numerous, dispersed and often deeply buried. Many Iranians would be killed, but what would the U.S. do next? It would have very few options, whereas Iran would have many.
Iran could flood Iraq with sophisticated weapons and send volunteers to help the fight against U.S. forces there. It could throw international markets into turmoil by halting its own oil exports. It could try to close the entire gulf to tanker traffic (with a fair chance of success) and throw the entire world economy into crisis."
Click here to read more.
Meanwhile....
BREAKING (?) NEWS: An explosion outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan went off Tuesday as Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting - WTF??
Gen. Pace says the US's military capability is eroding.
And in "post-Surge/security crackdown" Baghdad:
Iraqi VP Adel Abdul-Mahdi narrowly escapes assassination.
And Iraqi President Talabani falls ill as Baghdad reels from new bombings.
I keep saying this every time I do one of these posts but seriously... when will the f-ckin' madness end??
Semi-related: congrats to Al Gore on last night. If only Bush hadn't stolen the presidency back in 2000 (*sigh*)...
Labels: Afghanistan, Dick Cheney, General Peter Pace, Iran, Iraq war, Jalal Talabani, War on Terror
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Here We Go....
I don't even know what to make of this story:
"A senior Iranian diplomat in Baghdad has been abducted by gunmen appearing to be Iraqi army troops [emphasis added].
Iraqi officials confirmed Tuesday that gunmen riding in two vehicles abducted the Iranian diplomat after stopping his convoy in the central Karradah district late Sunday.
Meanwhile, U.S. and Iraqi forces have opened a command center for a new joint security operation in baghdad, where sectarian and insurgent violence continues to take Iraqi lives."
Click here to read further.
Related: "Iran accuses US over seized diplomat"
How soon until that "third front" in Iran in the "war on terror" that Bush seems to be dying to open is (unfortunately) finally a go?
