Excerpted from “Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America”
One key factor that has altered campaign coverage comes from the corporate right in the form of “conservative” media. If there has been a vacuum created by the downsizing of newsrooms, conservative media have filled it with an insistent partisanship uns ... Continue reading »
He cleared out Gezi Park with brutal violence, disparaged the protesters as terrorists and railed against the foreign media. After a brief conciliatory respite, Prime Minster Erdogan is inflaming the conflict in Turkey once more. But the protest movement shows no signs of backing down.
For a short time it looked as if Turkish Prime Minister Recep ... Continue reading »
Tehran Bureau correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 18 June 2013 05.55 EDT
Ghorban Ali lived in the shantytowns of Shahr-e Rey, just south of the Tehran city line. He was a metal worker and a staunch supporter of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the very end. He felt a close bond with this president who was the son of an ironsmith, who seemed to live a lif ... Continue reading »
The Egyptian government’s announcement that their citizens are free to go join the Syrian civil war, followed up almost immediately by a severing of diplomatic ties with the Syrian government was seen by some as taking a “hard line” on Assad.
Yet the context suggests this is set to be a broader Egyptian policy matter than simply the ongoing war i ... Continue reading »
The brother of Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed recently in a fierce battle in the Syrian city of Qusair, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Monday.
According to the report, Nasrallah attended the funeral of his brother, Khader, in the village of Kfar Kana in south Lebanon on Sunday.
Earlier in the month it was reported that Hezbolla ... Continue reading »
The stunning election victory for reform and moderation in Iran this weekend takes me back 16 years to the mind-boggling election upset I covered in 1997, when the moderate cleric Mohammad Khatami won. I covered him on the campaign trail and dubbed him the Mullah with the smiling face, and in fact his was a new and different face of Iran. He was th ... Continue reading »
TEHRAN, Iran - President-elect Hassan Rowhani struck a markedly conciliatory tone Monday, and held out the prospect of improved relations with the United States.
When asked by NBC News what he thought of the American congratulations to him and the Iranian people, as well as an offer to hold direct talks with Iran, Rowhani smiled and answered that ... Continue reading »
Hassan Rouhani's victory in the Iranian election is truly stunning. It opens a window of hope for an easing of tension between Iran and the west on the strained nuclear file but also on the more urgent issue – the self-destructive clash between Shia and Sunni Islam that is killing thousands in Syria and Iraq and threatens the entire Middle East reg ... Continue reading »
The video comes two days after Nazrallah made a speech containing a double lie (“We are not waging a War on Sunnis” and “Hezboolah had nothing to do with the murder of a prominent Shia dissident and he beating of others in front of the Iranian embassy." If this becomes standard practice Sunnis will no longer be able to conceal their identities f ... Continue reading »
Will Iran's president-elect provide to be a partner in advancing nuclear negotiations?; expert worries more moderate presentation will deter West from "effective response" to Teheran's foreign policies.
The election of cleric Hassan Rohani as president of Iran could damage Israel’s national interest, according to some analysts.
They argue that ... Continue reading »
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