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Could the Mullahs Fall This Time?

December 29, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , | by | Leave a comment

As protesters poured into the streets of Iran in the biggest and bloodiest demonstrations since June, Trita and Rouzbeh Parsi say this time could be the breaking point.

Read the article and watch the latest videos of the protests here.

Iran On The Verge?

December 26, 2009 in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Ayatollah Khamenei, Ayatollah Montazeri, Basiji, Democracy, Election, Elections, Free Speech, Iran, Islamic Revolution, Journalism, Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Martial Law, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Qom, Shia, Tehran | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | by | Leave a comment

An Iranian police officer, pictured in a white shirt, is protected and taken away by people after being beaten by protesters in Tehran Photograph: AP

Read the latest about the civilian protests and clashes with the government here and here.

Ayatollah Montazeri, Iranian Cleric, Dies at 87

December 20, 2009 in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Ayatollah Montazeri, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Death, Democracy, Elections, Green Revolution, Iran, Islam, Mahmouud Ahmadinejad, New York Times, Qom, Shia | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | by | Leave a comment

Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri

Read about the death of the leading reformist Iranian cleric here

Iran’s government ‘will not last’, says Mehdi Karoubi

December 18, 2009 in Ayatollah Khamenei, Democracy, Green Revolution, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Tags: , , , , , , | by | Leave a comment

Watch Karoubi’s rare interview with the BBC here.

Ann Lee on Financial Regulation

December 16, 2009 in Ann Lee, Credit, Financial Crisis, Investors, Markets, Regulation | Tags: , , , , , , | by | Leave a comment

Ann Lee is an adjunct professor at New York University and a former investment banker and hedge fund partner

Network 20/20 member Ann Lee offers her take on financial regulation here.

Ann writes about our broken banking system here.

Tete a tete with Hillary Clinton

December 16, 2009 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Belfer Center, China, Defense, Democracy, Development, E.U., Economic Crisis, Economic Meltdown, Economy, Education, Election, Elections, EU, European Union, Foreign Fighters, Foreign Policy, Hassan Abbas, Hillary Clinton, India, Instability, Insurgency, ISI, Islam, Islamabad, Militants, Miltary, Obama, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestinians, Peace, Police, Poverty, Secretary of State, Security, South Asia, Taliban, Terrorism, U.S., War | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | by | Leave a comment

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Hassan Abbas

Hassan Abbas interviews Hillary Clinton on her recent trip to Pakistan.  Read the exchange here

The Facts About Bottled Water

December 15, 2009 in Environment, Oil, Pollution, Recycling, Water | Tags: , , , , | by | Leave a comment

http://www.dump.com/2009/12/13/the-facts-about-bottled-water/

The Two Souls of Turkey

December 12, 2009 in Attaturk, Christianity, Democracy, E.U., Islam, Kemalism, Nobel, Orhan Pamuk, Ottoman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Secularism, Snow (novel), Turkey | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | by | Leave a comment

Author Orhan Pamuk

Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk discusses the ideological divisions within Turkey here

Swiss Ban Minarets

December 12, 2009 in Islam, Minaret, Switzerland | Tags: , , | by | Leave a comment

Not welcome in Geneva

View a video of Swiss public opinion on the recent referendum on banning the building of minarets. Watch it here.

Sinking in the Aegean

December 12, 2009 in E.U., Economy, European Union, Financial Crisis, George Papaconstantinou, Greece | Tags: , , , , , , | by | Leave a comment

Garbage piled up on a street in central Athens on Thursday because of a municipal worker strike

Greece is facing extraordinary financial troubles.  Read about the crisis here.