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Zakaria: ‘Fatal wound’ inflicted on Iranian regime's ideology — Editor's note: Fareed Zakaria is an author and foreign affairs analyst who hosts “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN at 1 and 5 p.m. ET Sundays. — The decisive margin of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory in elections …
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Iran TV says 10 killed in Tehran protests — Iranians have been sending the BBC footage of protests — At least 10 people were killed when police clashed with “terrorists” in Tehran on Saturday, state TV says. — The official reports, which cannot be confirmed, accuse “rioters” …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Cautious Response to Events in Iran Reflects Obama's Long-Term Approach — All last week, as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators surged through Tehran, President Obama resisted pressure to side with them against the Iranian government. — Yesterday, as murky images of clashes …
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets — TEHRAN — The Iranian police commander, in green uniform, walked up Komak Hospital Alley with arms raised and his small unit at his side. “I swear to God,” he shouted at the protesters facing him, “I have children, I have a wife, I don't want to beat people.
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Times of India:
Rafsanjani's daughter arrested in Iran — Text: — TEHRAN: The daughter of Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani and four relatives were arrested over their involvement in protests against alleged election fraud in Iran, the Fars news agency reported on Sunday.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Media Agreed to Stay Silent on Kidnapping of Reporter David Rohde — News Organizations Agreed to Protect Reporter's Safety — There were times during the kidnapping ordeal of New York Times reporter David Rohde when his boss wavered in his determination to suppress the story.
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New York Times:
In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health — Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Will calls right-wing attacks on Obama's Iran response ‘foolish criticism.’ — Since turmoil broke out in Iran over the country's disputed elections last week, conservatives have been forcefully criticizing President Obama for not doing enough to intervene on the side of those protesting.
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
Obama Closes Doors on Openness — From the magazine issue dated Jun 29, 2009 — As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding “secret energy meetings” with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed …
Phillip Inman / Guardian:
Goldman to make record bonus payout — Surviving banks accused of undermining stability — Staff at Goldman Sachs staff can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm's 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year, sparking concern that the big investment banks …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama's Response — Did you notice how many times he invoked the word “justice” in his message? That's the word that will resonate most deeply with the Iranian resistance. What a relief to have someone with this degree of restraint and prudence and empathy - refusing to be baited by Khamenei …
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Glenn W. Smith / Firedoglake:
Slavery and the Health Care Crisis — The gravity of America's health care crisis is the moral equivalent of the 19th Century's bloody conflict over slavery. This is not hyperbole, though the truth of it is often lost in abstract talk of insurance company profits, treatment costs, and other cold, inhuman analyses.
Eric Dash / New York Times:
If It's Too Big to Fail, Is It Too Big to Exist? — Nearly a century ago, the jurist Louis Brandeis railed against what he called the “curse of bigness.” He warned that banks, railroads and steel companies had grown so huge that they were lording it over the nation's economic and political life.