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Walberg: Venezuela & Iran: Whither the revolutions?
Znet Article, July, 12 2009
Eric Walberg
Walberg's ZSpace page
What drives US foreign policy? Is it primarily the domestic economy, as it logically should be, or, as many argue, the powerful Israel lobby, or as other argue, the need to secure energy sources? Of course, the answer is all three, in varying degr...
Greene: Revolutionary Marxist Current (Venezuela): Solidarity with the Iranian masses
Znet Article, July, 12 2009
Cort Greene
Greene's ZSpace page
Revolutionary Marxist: In response to recent statements by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan Revolutionary Marxist Current has issued this statement. They express their support for the movement of the masses in Iran and explain the ...
Razi: Open letter to the workers of Venezuela on Hugo Chávez's support for Ahmadinejad
Znet Article, July, 11 2009
Maziar Razi
Razi's ZSpace page
Open letter to the workers of Venezuela on Hugo Chávez's support for Ahmadinejad
Chomsky: Season of Travesties: Freedom and Democracy in mid-2009
Commentary, July, 10 2009
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive.
Rahnema: The Tragedy of the Left's Discourse on Iran
Znet Article, July, 09 2009
Saeed Rahnema
Rahnema's ZSpace page
Critique of various left views on Iran
Sulehria: Ahmedinajad and the anti-imperialism of fools
Znet Article, July, 09 2009
Farooq Sulehria
Sulehria's ZSpace page
Not merely is Ahmedinejad's anti-Americanism, anti-Israel policy highly questionable but declaring him an anti-imperialist blatantly trivialises anti-imperialism.
Samadzadeh: Iran's Revolution
Znet Article, July, 09 2009
Mehrdad Samadzadeh
Samadzadeh's ZSpace page
The controversy surrounding the election has given vent to a deep-seated popular resentment which is unlikely to disappear any time soon.
Mojab: Iran Elections and Revolution
Znet Article, July, 08 2009
Shahrzad Mojab
Mojab's ZSpace page
The conflict over election results in Iran is moving into uncharted territories.
Shalom: Question & Answer on the Iran Crisis
Znet Article, July, 07 2009
Stephen Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
Right after the June 12 elections in Iran, the Campaign for Peace and Democracy issued a statement expressing our strong support for the masses of Iranians protesting electoral fraud and our horror at the ferocious response of the government. Our ...
Hiro: The Clash of Islam and Democracy in Iran
Znet Article, June, 29 2009
Dilip Hiro
Hiro's ZSpace page
The Islamic Revolution Faces the Classic Dilemma of All Revolutions
Erlich: Iran and Leftist Confusion
Znet Article, June, 29 2009
Reese Erlich
Erlich's ZSpace page
When I returned from covering the Iranian elections recently, I was surprised to find my email box filled with progressive authors, academics and bloggers bending themselves into knots about the current crisis in Iran. They cite the long history o...
Ehsani: Tehran, June 2009
Znet Article, June, 28 2009
Kaveh Ehsani
Ehsani's ZSpace page
An assessment of the Iranian election, its background, and its impact
Bennis: The Iranian Elections and the U.S. Response
Video, June, 27 2009
Phyllis Bennis
Bennis's ZSpace page
Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies talks about what the U.S. should and should not be saying in the aftermath of the Iranian elections.
Erlich: It's not a Twitter revolution in Iran
Znet Article, June, 27 2009
Reese Erlich
Erlich's ZSpace page
Iran is not undergoing a Twitter Revolution. The term simultaneously mischaracterizes and trivializes the important mass movement developing in Iran.
Hooglund: Iran's Rural Vote and Election Fraud
Znet Article, June, 27 2009
Eric Hooglund
Hooglund's ZSpace page
I just heard a CNN reporter in Tehran say that Ahmadinejad's support base was rural. Is it possible that rural Iran, where less than 35 percent of the country's population lives, provided Ahmadinejad the 63 percent of the vote he claims to have wo...
Boyle: US Strategy for Color Revolution in Iran: A continuity of American policy under Bush and Cheney
Audio, June, 26 2009
Francis Boyle
Boyle's ZSpace page
A continuity of American policy under Bush and Cheney
Pollitt: Women's Rights and the Mullahs
Znet Article, June, 26 2009
Katha Pollitt
Pollitt's ZSpace page
The massive participation by women in Iran's street demonstrations is surprising only if you accept the mullahs' view of women as weak and passive vessels.
Bloice: Illusion, Reality & Courage in Iran
Znet Article, June, 26 2009
Carl Bloice
Bloice's ZSpace page
In the movie "The Year of Living Dangerously" the little guy Billy Kwan, brilliantly played by Linda Lee, gives a news reporter Guy Hamilton, played by Mel Gibson, a talk about Indonesian puppets - the kind on sticks, which you can now sometime fi...
Khanlarzadeh: How can we help Iranians?
Znet Article, June, 25 2009
Mina Khanlarzadeh
Khanlarzadeh's ZSpace page
The English-language media is full of articles that claim Iranian post-election demonstrations are either a class war or an uprising of rich Iranians against the authority. None of these articles support their offered claim with any strong argumen...
Dabashi: Iran’s Democratic Upsurge
Znet Article, June, 24 2009
Hamid Dabashi
Dabashi's ZSpace page
Regardless of their integrity, Iran's elections -- and even their aftermath -- are the fundamental democratic and collective expression US hawks and Zionists fear most, writes Hamid Dabashi
