This is so awful! They are suppose to be on the same team and protecting one another… continue reading...
Sadly, the death toll continues to grow as a result of the earthquake in Haiti that hit on January the 13th. Early estimates indicate that the tragedy could rank among the deadliest earthquakes of all time. continue reading...
According to Google News:
Iran’s central bank chief said on Monday that the country has gained five billion dollars by replacing the US dollar with the euro in its currency basket, state-owned English language Press TV reported.
“Iran has considerably reduced the total of US dollars in its currency basket,” Mahmoud Bahmani said at a bankers’ seminar in Tehran. continue reading...
Interesting indeed:
The Iranian army has arrested 36 officers who planned to attend last week’s Friday prayer sermon by former president Hashemi Rafsanjani in their military uniforms as an act of political defiance, according to Farsi-language websites. continue reading...
Israel is showing its true colors by talking about a strike on Iran now. Iranians are finally growing the backbone to stand up to this hollow regime, the instant Israel or the US suggests that they will attack Iran, the sooner will Iranians regroup behind the existing regime.
Israel and the US talk a lot about democracies, but Israel is as much of a democracy as Iran is, and hearing Joe Biden reinforce Israel’s potential follies suggest that they need a bogeyman in Iran. continue reading...
Some common sense?
CNN: What about a military strike? continue reading...
What if the Iran vote was not rigged? The counter-argument is here. This echoes my argument that Iran and US are awfully similar. Recall that Al Gore lost Tennessee in 2000, and John Kerry won the urban areas but lost out in the rural ones. For the record, I am not saying the elections were not rigged, I am saying I don’t know and no one really does. Were the US elections in 2000 and 2004 fair? Not if you ask Florida and Ohio, respectively. Anyway, some of James Petras’ points below:
- There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite. In the most recent period, the White House and its camp followers cried foul following the free (and monitored) elections in Venezuela and Gaza, while joyously fabricating an ‘electoral success’ in Lebanon despite the fact that the Hezbollah-led coalition received over 53% of the vote. continue reading...
In 2000, Al Gore was believed to have won the Elections, but Florida proved otherwise and George W. Bush was chosen as the winner by the Supreme Court in what was a political decision to maintain peace and order.
In 2004, John Kerry was expected to defeat the allegedly unpopular George Bush, but surprising to many and shocking to foreigners, Bush retained the Presidency. continue reading...
Is it the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end of the Green Revolution in Iran? Remember that the 1979 Revolution began in 1978…
Read more. continue reading...
PLAY
