A report by Brian Williams airing 2nite (June 3) as well @ 9 p.m. E on NBC.
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ELECTION
The presidential candidates fail to inspire me
I have given up all hopes of a regime change in Iran. Heck I can’t even change my own regime (in the French sense of diet) far less fathom the fall of the now almighty, clear-winner-of-the-Iraq-war, Islamic Republic of Iran. I now, once again, think that perhaps reform from within the system is the best solution for Iran. I was a big supporter of Khatami until he betrayed the students and all the rest of us in the 18th Tir uprising. I like much of what Moussavi has to say but frankly he bores me. I just listened to his TV speech and found myself yawning three minutes into it. I do not agree with Ahmadinejad on 90% of issues but the guy certainly has more chutzpah than this diet-coke of a reformist
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The mixed up muddled up shook up world of human rights politics
Large sums of money have been and are being spent on creating seemingly spontaneously grown citizens' organizations that shape and give direction to dissent among the populations over-lorded by governments not liked by the U.S. It is natural that, in these half-covert operations, human rights are used as a wedge issue. Because of this push by the right into the discursive and practical area of 'human rights', some western leftists have abandoned this area of advocacy when it comes to countries they perceive as being under attack by the imperialists, and therefore most talk of human rights violations in such countries has become taboo, since it allegedly paves the way for the continuation of the imperialist interventions, and subjugation of more natives around the world
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MUST GO
نقدی بر وضعیت فعلی انتخابات ایران
احمدی نژاد باید برود، این را همه می دانیم. اینکه ایشان می توانند انسانی سالم و متدین باشند (که حتما هم اینطور است) دلیلی بر تکیه بر مسند ریاست جمهوری ایران نیست. هزاران جایگاه دیگر برای فعالیت سازنده ایشان در کشور وجود دارد. از منش آقای احمدی نژاد اینگونه بر می آید که احترام متقابل و صداقت در زندگیشان تا به حال مفهومی نداشته است، یعنی به کسی احترام نگذار و اگر بی احترامی دیدی اهمیتی نده، دقیقا چیزی که در سیاست خارجی فعلی ایران و ارتباطات داخلی کشور دیده می شود. پس اولین رکن یک انسان شایسته در شخصیت ایشان زیر سئوال است و بماند هزاران مشکل دیگر، که این روزها، هر ساعت لیست بلند بالای بی لیاقتی های دولت را می بینیم در تباهی 4 سال درخشان ایران.
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