Filed under: Asia, Middle East | Tags: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Barack Obama, Basiji, Electoral Fraud, Electoral Fruad Iran, Green Revolution, Iran, Iran Elections 2009, Iran Protests, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hussein Mousavi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Neo-Con, Obama, Protests, Revolutionary Guard Corps, State Repression, Tehran, Zionist
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19 June 2009
Source: Common Dreams
The growing nonviolent insurrection in Iran against the efforts by the ruling clerics to return the ultra-conservative and increasingly autocratic incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinjead to power is growing. Whatever the outcome, it represents an exciting and massive outpouring of Iranian civil society for a more open and pluralistic society.
Ironically, defenders of Ahmadinejad’s repression are trying to blame everyone from the U.S. government to nonviolent theorist Gene Sharp to various small NGOs engaged in educational efforts on strategic nonviolent action as somehow being responsible for the popular uprising in Iran. It appears to be based upon the rather bizarre assumption that millions of Iranians would somehow be willing to pour out onto the streets in the face of violent repression by state security forces only because they have been directed to do so by people from an imperialist power which overthrew their last democratic government and subsequently propped up (more…)
Filed under: Indian Subcontinent | Tags: Adivasi, CPI (M), CRPF, India, Lalgarh, Maoists, State Repression, West Bengal
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21 June 2009
Source: The Hindu
KOLKATA: Top ranking Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji, who is believed to have played a key role in the outfit’s activities in the troubled Lalgarh area of Paschim Medinipur district, said on Saturday the West Bengal government should halt security operations in the region and sit for talks with the local people to find a solution to their problems.
“If the Left Front government wants discussions with the people of Lalgarh, the operation by the police and the security forces against them should end by this afternoon,” Mr. Rao, a member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) told a local television channel.
The Maoist leader, who claimed to be in the Lalgarh area, said Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee should go to Dalilpur Chak and talk to the people. The State government should not (more…)
Filed under: Asia, Middle East, North America | Tags: Ali Khamenei, Arab, Baloch, Barak Obama, Basiji, CIA, Election Fraud, Green Revolution, Hossein Mousavi, Imperialism, Iran, Iran Elections 2009, Iran Protests, Islamic Republic of Iran, Kurds, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mass Protests, Mossad, Pakistan, Protests, State Repression, Tehran, Zionism
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18 June 2009
Source: The Hindu
The paranoia about interference from the West is worrying — but it may also be justified.
Long-term instability in Iran is an alarming prospect for western countries keen to resolve disputes over the country’s nuclear programme and other contentious issues. But continuing political weakness in Tehran is also likely to produce the opposite effect — increased regime concern about external attempts to interfere, destabilise, and exploit its vulnerabilities. This paranoid trend threatens unpredictable, even dangerous consequences – but may be justified.
Pinning blame for Iran’s post-election turmoil on (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: al-Arish, al-Badeel, Arab Foreign Ministers, Arab League, Cairo University, Daily News Egypt, Downtown Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian President, Egyptian Protests, Egyptians, Exports to Israel, Fatah, Gaza, Gaza Stirp, gaza Strip, Hamas, Hosni Mubarak, IDF, Israel, Israeli Ambassador, Israeli Massacre, Israeli War, Isreali Military, Liberation of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, Muslim Brotherhood, Natural Gas, Palestine, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian resistance, Palestinians, PIGS, Police Repression, Racism, Racist, Rafah border, Riot Police, Sinai, State Repression, Tagammu Party, Tahrir Square, White Supremacy, Zionism, Zionist, Zionist State, Zionist Terror
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5 January 2009
Source: Electronic Intifada
Thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets to protest the continuing Israeli aggression against Gaza and the participation of the Egyptian regime in the isolation of its population. Last Wednesday, the state responded with a major crackdown in which tens of protestors and journalists were assaulted and arrested.
Around the Arab world, the Egyptian regime has been a target of severe criticism for its continuing role in the ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip and its silence in the face of intense Israeli bombardment of the enclave. Last Tuesday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak responded to the criticism by announcing in a televised speech that the Rafah border crossing will remain closed until the Palestinian Authority led by president Mahmoud Abbas regains control of the Gaza strip — a statement that only strengthened the impression that Mubarak approves of the (more…)
