Sean Penn’s visit to Iran has caught the attention of the Iranian American community and many bloggers. My friend "Afshin Molavi wrote about":http://www.opendemocracy.net/
Everyone seems shocked, and yet no one really should be. We all knew that the Iranian electorate is highly unpredictable; we knew that Iranian polls due to cultural reasons can
Mr. Lake confirms – inadvertently – my point in regards to the human rights credentials of the neo-conservatives by stating that his passionate defense of them is only based on "what
In his post yesterday, Trita Parsi revealed the agenda that lurks behind the human rights rhetoric of the neoconservatives. He says many Iranians believe they mask a desire for "
There's only so much we can do as bloggers. The mass media is not picking up the Ganji story. News on Iran continues to be selective. We need
Most writers have based their analysis of Ahmadinejad’s ascent to presidency on the numbers published by the regime in trying to make sense of the results. Some journalists labeled
There are worrying reports that the life of Iran’s longest imprisoned journalist Akbar Ganji is in serious danger. Celebrated by his supporters as the Islamic world’s Vaclav Havel,
Aaron Rosenthal
We had to wait at the ticket barriers at London Bridge for a couple of minutes; we were told there had been a power surge. It’s not
Allen Feldman
Throughout the 1970s and 80s the Provisional IRA set off bombs in London for one major strategic purpose: shifting the front line of warfare from the streets of
Today oD's London office received sad news from a friend and contributor to openDemocracy, John Adeleke, illustrating only too starkly the ongoing pain and suffering caused by Thursday&
Peter Neumann
Just in case you wondered what the authorities are doing at this very moment: the police are reviewing 1800 hours of CCTV footage from across London, and the
by Todd Gitlin
8 July 2005
Hearing the news, a pall came over America, and then: solidarity, horror, memory, resolve, dark fatalism, and regrettably, some smugness (we got hit first
