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The Japanese sway to Obamameter - 32 days ago

The Times revisits the Japanese passion for Obama's speeches, which have become a staple of the country's multi-billion dollar English language instruction industry. While the CDs, books, etc. based on the speeches presumably break down the...
Topics: Barack Obama, Japan, Obama speeches, yes we can, Yuzo Yamamoto

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Bruce Bartlett, Keynsian? - 33 days ago

Bruce Bartlett , semi-repentant supply-sider and quasi neo-Keynsian, on one of many valuable taboos Republicans blew through: Indeed, by destroying the balanced budget constraint, starve-the-beast theory actually opened the flood gates of spending. As I..
Topics: Bruce Bartlett, Keynsian economics, starve the beast, supply-side ecnomic

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Mosssdegh, the Shah, Khamenei and "outside interference" in Iran - 147 days ago

The Iranian government's claim that the mass demonstrations of the past week are instigated by foreign enemies sounds laughable to Western ears, and perhaps at this point to most Iranians. Mousavi counters this claim with his own revolutionary...
Topics: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini, Jimmy Carter, John McCain, Mohammad Mossadegh, Shah of Iran, Stephen Kinzer

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Mousavi + Obama - 148 days ago

This image is on Mousavi's Facebook page, accompanying Obama's June 20 statement calling on the government of Iran to respect human life and human rights. I am surprised that the Mousavi campaign would yoke these images together, given Khamenei...
Topics: Barack Obama, Facebook, Mir-Houssain Mousavi

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The wrest is silence - 152 days ago

Today's march through Tehran, captured in this short video from a height that shows its massive length and breadth, makes me feel for the first time that something unstoppable is at work here - that this outpouring of popular will can't simply be.
Topics: demonstration, June 17, Shiite martyrdom, Tehran, Tiananmen Square

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