325 blog posts about ahmadinejad columbia
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MRZine and Sex Change Operations in Iran
Iranian transsexualsDespite aspiring to speak for the Iranian left, which in its view is reducible to Ahmadinejad and the forces that support him, MRZine has come under attack again and again by the Iranian left, both in exile and in Iran itself. The pro-Ahmadinejad
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Ahmadinejad's AcademicsMiddle Eastern scholars ...
By Cinnamon Stillwell What a difference a popular uprising makes ... s theocratic regime and its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from the alleged predations ... themselves have taken center stage. This signals quite a shift. When Ahmadinejad, the supposedly
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Remember, Remember The 18th Of Tir
On this date in 1999 — the 18th of Tir in the Persian calendar — Iranian riot police and Basij militia brutally cracked down on student demonstrators in Tehran, leading to five days of the largest protests in the history of the Islamic Republic — that is, until those of June 2009. “ Without July 1999 ,” writes Shirin Sadeghi,
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Iranians Speak Out on 10th Anniversary of Stude...
On July 9, 1999, known as the 18th of Tir in the Iranian calendar, ... parliamentarian) and Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University professor) were the participants. Listening to history
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Pot, Kettle, Black — The Fine Art of Political ...
Regular readers might not have noticed, but we entertained about four-thousand extra visitors ... determined to view Ahmadinejad through Chamberlainian
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Radical Son? Obama at Columbia
I don’t think anyone can seriously make the argument at this point that Barack Obama did not dabble in radical leftist politics in his youth. It is also difficult to ignore the fact that throughout his adult
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INTERMEX POWER (2009-07-08 18:49)
Iran's Failed Revolution by Doug Bandow Iran's Guardian Council has affirmed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory and demonstrations have ebbed. Repression appears to have worked ... ," in Ahmadinejad's words. America's options are limited: restrained engagement, with no illusions about the nature
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DrumBeat: July 6, 2009
Peter Tertzakian: The Wealthy World at its ‘oil break point’ Recovering-economy-equals-higher-oil-prices is a mostly valid notion in a “peak oil” world; however, everyone in the oil business should be aware that the relationship between economy and demand for petroleum products is changing significantly in mature western countries — a block of
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DrumBeat: July 6, 2009
Peter Tertzakian: The Wealthy World at its 'oil break point' Recovering-economy-equals-higher-oil-prices is a mostly valid notion in a “peak oil” world; however, everyone in the oil business should be aware that the relationship between economy and demand for petroleum products is changing significantly in mature western countries -- a block of
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Présidence Obama: Au secours, Chirac revient! (...
Nous exigeons l’interdiction absolue de l’arme atomique, arme d’épouvante et d’extermination massive des populations. Nous exigeons l’établissement d’un rigoureux contrôle international pour assurer l’application de cette mesure d’interdiction. Nous considérons que le gouvernement qui, le premier, utiliserait, contre n’importe quel pays,