Roger Cohen’s latest on Iran: The End of the Beginning.
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Neda Agha Soltan died Saturday in Iran. She was an Iranian student who was shot by a single bullet amid the protests following the Iranian election. Her last moments were captured on a video that has gone beyong viral to global.
Via the NY Times and The Writing Life II:
A Poem for Neda Agha Soltan (1982-2009)
Written by Mandana
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Stay, Neda—
The [...]
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I’m balancing running my business, a part-time job and 3 blogs these days. Needless to say there are not enough hours in the day. So before I dash out the door… Here’s the must read of the day from John Kerry in the NY Times: With Iran, Think Before You Speak.
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Iran is spinning out of control. The whole world is watching as Stuart noted below.
Will Bunch posted this tonight… For What It’s Worth:
Shots were fired at the protests today and at least one person is reported to be dead. President Obama spoke on the situation there tonight with an “emphasis on non-violence“:
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There are Traditional Media on the ground in Iran including NBC, ABC and, if they haven’t been thrown out as was ordered yesterday, the BBC.
Yet we get more information directly from the site of demonstrations, meetings and rallies from the bloggers and tweeters that are on the ground.
Marc Ambinder suggests we approach this uncensored or [...]
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ordered a review of State Department security in the wake of “Walter Kendall Myers, a 72-year-old former State Department employee, and his 71-year-old wife, Gwendolyn,” who were arrested last Thursday and “charged with illegally aiding the government of Cuba for almost 30 year.”
One can’t help but wonder if the last [...]
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Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan have begun serious talks on a regional effort to militarily combat Islamist extremism, terrorism and the Taliban in their joint countries.This is the second meeting in one month on this topic and economic issues confronting the region. Those talks include the growing heroin trade estimated to fund the Taliban $100 million [...]
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Secretary Robert Gates made a statement in Washington DC about an extraordinary soldier who in a moment of emergency made a decision that he worried would cost him his job.
[Robert] Gates told an audience in New York about Specialist Zachary Boyd, routed from sleep by enemy fire on his post in eastern Afghanistan.
“He immediately grabbed [...]
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The Cable on ForeignPolicy.com has an exclusive today, reporting that former president Bill Clinton is to be named the UN Special Envoy to Haiti:
A UN official confirmed to The Cable that there would be a formal announcement on this Tuesday.
The Clinton Foundation did not immediately respond to queries; nor did the White House.
In March, Bill [...]
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