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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 …
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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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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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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.
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
The Right Wing Claims Ahmadinejad's Reelection Was A Fraud, But Obama's Responsible For It Anyway — On Friday, the Iranian government announced that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the presidential election, though observers, including his main challenger, cited irregularities …
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.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHEN IN DOUBT, BLAME OBAMA.... Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R) appeared on ABC's “This Week” this morning — no, I'm not sure why he was invited on either — and was asked about developments in Iran. Naturally, the one-time presidential candidate said President Obama bears responsibility for what's transpired.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:Or, he won — New America's Flynt Leverett is the first …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:Statistical Report Purporting to Show Rigged Iranian Election Is Flawed
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gary's choices:Iran's political coup
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Yossi Melman / Haaretz:Report: Defeated Ahmadinejad rival arrested in Iran
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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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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 …
Will Hutton / Guardian:
Paul Krugman's fear for lost decade — As analysts and media hailed the tentative emergence of green shoots last week, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman caused international shock with a prediction that the world economy would stagnate just as badly, and for just as long, as Japan's did in the 1990s.
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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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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 …
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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