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Michael J. Totten:
Iran on Fire (Continuously updated) — The BBC says clashes between demonstrators and police in Tehran are the most violent in a decade. — Video below shows a human wave of demonstrators chasing frightened police officers. — Here is another video. These protests are huge.
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Daniel Terdiman / Webware.com:
‘#CNNFail’: Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence — While word of riots in the streets of Tehran spread like wildfire on Twitter, CNN stayed largely silent on the story, surprising and dismaying many. — (Credit: Twitter) — As the Iranian election aftermath unfolded in Tehran …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Revolution Will Be Twittered — Mock not. As the regime shut down other forms of communication, Twitter survived. With some remarkable results. Those rooftop chants that were becoming deafening in Tehran? A few hours ago, this concept of resistance was spread by a twitter message.
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Iran: There Will Be Blood — (To get a feel for what is going on in the streets of Tehran, watch this linked BBC video clip.) — Last night in London after appearing on Keith Olbermann's show, I got an email from a well-connected Iranian who knows many of the power figures in the Tehran political order asking to meet me.
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Iran's Day of Anguish — TEHRAN — She was in tears like many women on the streets of Iran's battered capital. “Throw away your pen and paper and come to our aid,” she said, pointing to my notebook. “There is no freedom here.” — And she was gone, away through the milling crowds near …
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MideastAnalysis.com:
What Happened in Iran? — Let us begin by acknowledging that Iran is a complex society with an unusually opaque political system. Few outsiders genuinely understand the place. That makes understanding the country's presidential campaign - and interpreting the events of the last 24 hours - particularly tricky.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Statistical Report Purporting to Show Rigged Iranian Election Is Flawed — Like most Americans, there are few things I would like to see more than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's hateful President, to be voted out of office. Elections in thuggish, authoritarian states like Iran need be treated with the utmost skepticism and scrutiny.
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Iran's political coup
Iran's political coup
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Yossi Melman / Haaretz:
Report: Defeated Ahmadinejad rival arrested in Iran
Report: Defeated Ahmadinejad rival arrested in Iran
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International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran:
Withhold Recognition of Iranian Presidential Election Results
Withhold Recognition of Iranian Presidential Election Results
tehranbureau:
Mousavi Letter — The reported results of the 10th Iranians …
Mousavi Letter — The reported results of the 10th Iranians …
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Gateway Pundit:
Madness! Obama Administration Silent As Iranian Students …
Madness! Obama Administration Silent As Iranian Students …
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Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Concern Over Obama's Spending Plans May Cloud 2010 Election Prospects — Concern Mounts in White House as 2010 Elections Loom — After enjoying months of towering poll numbers, legislative victories and well-received foreign policy initiatives, the White House has become increasingly concerned …
Steve Schippert / RapidRecon:
Iranian Courage — This is courage. — Think about that as you go about your relatively calm day in Liberty already earned. — I said a few years ago when the regime began another wave of strict enforcement of Islamic (by their definition) dress code while women openly protested: Follow the women of Iran.
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past? — The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local opponent. A few miles from the agency's headquarters, which are in Langley, Virginia …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The Take: GOP Comeback Limited by Demographics, Political Forces — There has been much chatter about who now speaks for the Republican Party, and whether the GOP has a message or an agenda to combat President Obama's popularity. Those questions are important to the party's future …
Frank Rich / New York Times:
The Obama Haters' Silent Enablers — WHEN a Fox News anchor, reacting to his own network's surging e-mail traffic, warns urgently on-camera of a rise in hate-filled, “amped up” Americans who are “taking the extra step and getting the gun out,” maybe we should listen. He has better sources in that underground than most.
Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
Something's Got to Give in Medicare Spending — MEDICARE expenditures threaten to crush the federal budget, yet the Obama administration is proposing that we start by spending more now so we can spend less later. — This runs the risk of becoming the new voodoo economics.
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Kenneth Anderson / The Volokh Conspiracy:
“If They Can Find Time for Feminist Theory, They Can Find Time for Edmund Burke": Peter Berkowitz, a political philosopher who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, has an excellent short opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, “Conservatism and the University Curriculum,” for which the title of this post is the subtitle.
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Associated Press:
Terrorist can sue over torture memos — First time a government lawyer has been held potentially liable for abuse — SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture …
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