The Guardian council just announced names of the approved candidates:
* Mohammad Bager Qalibaf (Conservative)
* Ali Larijani (Conservative)
* Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad (Fundamentalist)
* Mohsen Rezai (Conservative)
* Mehdi Karrubi (Conservative)
* Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
There is a view now amongst Western writers and shared by some Iranian journalists that the actual issue behind the current presidential elections, and the recent parlamentarian elections, is the
George W. Bush is reportedly getting an earful on climate change from some the heaviest hitters in the business world.
Today's IHT republishes this from yesterday's
So, a few days after a flock of protestors gagged themselves outside Downing Street, how goes the old electoral reform campaign in the United Kingdom?
Not so great, it seems.
Amirahmadi, the President of the American Iranian Council and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, discusses his presidential bid and the possible "Iraqicization"
A chilling account by Human Rights Watch of abuses inside Mojahedin-e-Khalq camps. A must-read for the Mojahedin's backers in the U.S Congress.
The new editor of the New Statesman asked me to write a column for him. But I addressed its readers in the first person, saying those of us Saddam haters
In his article for this debate, Bill McKibben asked "where are the books? The poems? The plays?"
Writing in the forum, Robert Butler and Wallace Heim of the
The world is still scrambling for a window on the mounting conflict in Uzbekistan - not just what's going on but why. At our morning meeting today, the
Today openDemocracy publishes the first part of a dialogue between activists in India, China and Brazil on what to do about climate change. Read it here.
Cliff Polycarp from India,
A note on the brouhaha over the theatrical US Senate appearance of British MP “Gorgeous” George Galloway.
Three days before Britain’s General Election, I followed Galloway and his supporters
An outstanding grasp of the science of climate change is not incompatible with strong religious faith. This is demonstrated by these comments by John Houghton, former Chair of Working Group
