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Morning No: No Exit
Open Left - Front Page —
... who chose to go out and protest, not a hapless, bystanding teenager. She was one of many who decided to have a voice in their internal conversation over whether to have a fully-realized democracy or ...
Yep
Rising Hegemon —
Professor Smooth & Debonair sums up the Iranian dilemma quite well and jumps ahead of the soon to be made GOP wanking-points: Obama will likely be as helpless before a crackdown by the Iranian regime as Eisenhower was re: Hungary in 1956, Johnson was re: Prague in 1968, and Bush senior was re: Tienanmen Square in 1989. George W. Bush, it should remember, did nothing about Tehran's crackdown on student protesters in 2003 or about the crackdown on reformist candidates, which excluded them from running in the 2004 Iranian parliamentary elections, or about ...
What We’re Not Talking About
The Mahablog —
... using force to stop the Taliban; it has to be done, and it’s probably true that there’s no other way to do it.
But what does it say about us that we go into a several-day mourning frenzy over one young woman killed in Tehran, but shrug our shoulders over civilians killed in Pakistan? And do we really want the people of Pakistan to associate the U.S. with robot killing machines? Whatever happened to sending CARE packages?
Regarding the protests in Tehran, Juan Cole makes a good point –
The kind of unlicensed, city-wide ...
Tehran's Unlicensed Protests
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Juan Cole makes a sharp point. The mass protests in Iran would not be allowed in the US either. And they weren't allowed in the US under Bush-Cheney: ...
"Would they be allowed in the US?"
Preemptive Karma —
... June 24, 2009 "Would they be allowed in the US?" Juan Cole notes the proverbial elephant in the living room - Washington and the Iran Protests: ...
Street Protests, America vs. Iran
Hit & Run —
Juan Cole, America-hating parade-rainer, has a point: The kind of unlicensed, city-wide demonstrations being held in Tehran last week would not be allowed to be held in the United States....At the Republican National Committee convention in St. Paul, 250 protesters were arrested shortly before John McCain took the podium. Most were innocent activists and even journalists. Amy Goodman and her staff were assaulted. In New York in 2004, 'protest zones' were assigned, and 1800 protesters were arrested, who have now been awarded civil damages by the ...
Tomgram: Ira Chernus, West Bank Settler Violence and the Path to Peace
TomDispatch —
... It's a wonderful, even a thrilling thing, when we're reminded that history surprises, that we human beings are less than predictable and sometimes act in concert and so much better, so much more movingly, than we have any right to expect. One can only hope for further surprises against the force of a well-armed state. While we're at it, however, we Americans should remind ourselves that we are not the good guys in this story, that it was American meddling that set in motion the whole grim train of events leading to this moment more than half a century ago. ...
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