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WhereIsMyVoteNY: June 12 March to the United Nations

June 16th, 2010 No Comments

June 12 March to the UN. Sponsored by Where Is My Vote NY. Speakers included: Freedom Glory Project Mamak Khadem, formerly of Axiom of Choice Kathy Kelly, Co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence Professor Hossein Kamaly, Barnard University Austin Heap, Haystack Creator Link to Youtube Playlist.

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Iran One Year After Ahmadinejad’s Reelection

June 11th, 2010 No Comments

A Middle East Bulletin interview with Karim Sadjadpour, associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This month marks the one-year anniversary of the contested re-election of President Ahmadinejad. How do you read the situation in Iran a year later? What are the internal dynamics? While the government succeeded in violently quelling the momentum of the opposition [...]

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Chatham House Study Questions Results of the Iranian Election

June 22nd, 2009 No Comments

A newly released statistical study of the rigged election by Chatham House raises enormous questions about the validity of the Interior Ministry’s reported vote totals. And Mousavi himself is making the point, in detailed fashion, that the vote was bogus. According to The Nation’s Robert Dreyfus, The Chatham House analysis, while wonky and full of [...]

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Getting Used to Disappointment

June 13th, 2009 No Comments

Bill Evans – Who Can I Turn To? So if you turned on the news at all last night, you probably saw something about the Iranian elections, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s apparent landslide victory. I’m not going to lie (and because I’m not a journalist or a politician, I don’t have to), I’m pretty unhappy about [...]

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