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Your would-be First Lady believes your country should be inspired by a terrorist nation loves to tell you that, had he been the nominee, “Bernie would have won.” If only the DNC hadn’t conspired to secure Hillary Clinton’s coronation, we’d all be enjoying the many benefits of “President Bernie” right now. I’m not so sure. I’m willing to admit he might have done a bit better in Michigan, but I still doubt he would have seen support significant enough to drag his ol’ bones across the national finish line. The reason? If he’d been the nominee, he would have had...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- "What are you Americans thinking?" asked the young woman in perfect, if slightly accented, English. She was wearing a name tag with "Marie" in both Cyrillic and Latin print and had greeted us pleasantly when we ducked out of the rain and into her store to buy postcards and mementos for our grandchildren. Her question about American "thinking" came in the midst of a conversation about how dramatically life in Russia had changed during her 27 brief years. "What do you mean?" I replied. "What are you Americans thinking about freedom?" Marie asked. Somewhat perplexed, I...

Venezuela troops were landing at an airport ...thugs of the world trying to support each other....no word on any from North Korea however...probably not big enough to stand up in a real fight!

I watched part of the press conference today by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad today. I heard his claim that the reporting of what was essentially a stolen election was “slander” by Western journalists. He claimed that the arrests and violence with riot police seen beating protesters was just the normal sort of thing that happens when people “leave a soccer stadium”. I listened to him claim that everyone is equal in Iran and that the people arrested were being “fined” by the police for violating traffic laws. He repeatedly claimed that 40 million people voted in Iran and that “safeguards”...

How many tens of thousands of people marching in protest does it take for CNN to acknowledge that it's happening? The Iranian people are outraged at the lack of coverage by CNN. The Iranian people need publicity about their plight and desire for a Free Iran in order to topple the regime. Iranians were shouting in English: "We Want Freedom". If it isn't reported, who will know? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nifgnonH-BU&feature=related BBC reporter not afraid to show what's happening - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcHT8-ps64w

Saturday, June 13th, 2009 Today the world is witnessing the demonstrated anger of millions of Iranians against a regime that denies their most basic rights, including the right to choose leaders who could improve their abysmal condition. There is no exit from this condition, so long as one man appropriates onto himself the “power of god” and controls the judiciary, the media, the security forces and, through direct and indirect appointees dictates the only candidates claiming to represent an impoverished and disenfranchised people. Today I stand united with my fellow Iranians and call for the end of the Islamic Republic,...

If breaking news would favor the right, probably blogs and twitter are your best hope. What you won't see on PMSNBC or CNN: On twitter: try #iranelection or #iranelections

Iran doesn’t have elections, it has circuses, and this was proven once again on Friday, when the regime announced that Ahmadinezhad had been retained–call him “landslide Mahmoud” please–as president of the Islamic Republic. So much for the remarks of various pundits claiming that Iran was some sort of “democracy.” There isn’t a single educated Iranian who thinks that the official numbers represent anything more than a brazen insult to the opponents of the regime. Supreme Leader Khamenei rubbed it in when he called the outcome “divine,” but the subtlety was no doubt lost on American commentators, who were mostly concerned...

The Circus Is in Tehran Search for meaning in non-elections. March 20, 2008 By Michael Ledeen There were no elections in Iran last Friday, whatever you may read. The “turnout” was shockingly low, even by past standards, as is demonstrated by the obvious panic in Tehran, where the mullahs kept the polls open an extra five hours. This was not, as they said, to make sure the patriotic citizens of the capital could drop their ballots in the box, but because they had to bus the reluctant faithful and the subservient government employees to the election offices, so as to...

Tehran, Iran, Jun. 25 – Defeated presidential contender Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani today lashed out at state institutions for illegally aiding his rival Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to win the elections. In a statement, the former two-term President said, “I do not intend to present a complaint to the arbiters [Guardian Council], who have shown that they cannot and do not want to resolve it”. The Guardian Council, the highest vetting organ of the clerical establishment, which oversaw the election results has been accused by other defeated presidential hopefuls of mass vote-rigging. Rafsanjani accused state institutions of “using all available means...

Clear and Present Danger The stakes in Iran. By Kenneth R. Timmerman June 16, 2005 Iran's people face yet another faked election this Friday, with eight candidates for president, all handpicked by the regime, facing off in a tragic parody of democracy. The parody is obvious. Hundreds of other candidates were disqualified well before the vote by the Council of Guardians, including every single woman who sought to run. The Council of 12 radical clerics, desperate to maintain the absolute rule of the clergy, was careful to allow only candidates they could count on to tow the line if elected....

The son of Iran's last shah, Reza Pahlavi, denounced Tehran's looming presidential polls as "theatrics" as he launched a hunger strike to support political prisoners of the Islamic regime. In an interview with AFP, Pahlavi called for a boycott of next week's polls organised by the Iranian government that toppled his father in a 1979 revolution that sent the imperial family into exile. The 44-year-old royal said he would not eat or drink, save for water to avoid dehydration, for three days between Friday to Sunday to draw attention to the lack of human, civic and political rights of Iranians....