obsidianwings.blogs.com - 8/4/2009
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by publius One last observation about Iran... A couple of weeks ago, we had a good thread on Marx . One point I made was that the most persuasive part of Marx (to me) was his argument that economic interests generally drive events. That doesn't justify his normative proposals (which are ...
nytimes.com - 8/3/2009
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The Obama administration is talking with allies and
Congress about the possibility of imposing an extreme economic...
sanction against Iran if it fails to respond to President Obama ’s offer to negotiate on its nuclear program: cutting off the country’s ...
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U.S. Weighs Iran Sanctions if Talks Are Rejected
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It's Always The Economy
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Publius offers a less-than-idealistic take on the reform movement in Iran:
The Iranian economy is in very poor shape, and the regime is considered to be a contributing factor to the poor economy. [...] The election was the spark. But the ultimate cause (the dry forest that was susceptible to fire, if you will) was Iran's economic problems. It's more romantic, of course, to see the struggle in ideological terms as a fight for freedom and reform, etc. But it seems more like an economic fight to me.
It's a key difference between the Chinese and Iranian ...
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