BBC News
Intensified crackdown mutes protests in IranThe Associated PressCAIRO (AP) — Overwhelmed by police and left with limited alternatives, Iranian demonstrators resorted Tuesday to more subtle ways of challenging the outcome of the presidential election: holding up posters, shouting from rooftops and turning on car …Video: How Western media backs green revolution in Iran RTWas […]
New York Times
Obama in Farsi, on Twitter and WhiteHouse.govWashington Post, United StatesOn the other hand he is criticizing beatings and tratments of protesters, but no word on election fraud. This triggers whole line of questions about USA governement involment in these protests, EU involvment and of course Israel involvment. …Video: Obama 'appalled' at Iran Crackdown The […]
Telegraph.co.uk
Iran expels British diplomats, refuses new voteThe Associated PressIn a boost for the embattled regime, Russia said Tuesday that it respects the declared election result. But France summoned Iran's ambassador to express concern about what it called "brutal repression" of protesters in Tehran. The US and many European …World reaction Minneapolis Star TribuneIran's "most treacherous" […]
Boston Globe
On Iran and Health Care, Obama Careful to Keep His Options OpenWashington Post, United StatesThe most spirited exchange came when USA Today's David Jackson raised the question of whether a reform package must include a public insurance plan as an option to private insurance. Shortly before Obama entered the White House briefing room, …Video: […]
Telegraph.co.uk
President Obama Ups the Rhetoric on Iran – But Doesn't Rescind the …ABC NewsIn the name of human rights Carter asked a US ally the shah to leave and now the tyrants he was replaced by not only have our blessing… but have earned our respect. I think it would be factually correct to say […]
Washington Post
Rather than focusing on an unattainable Israeli-Palestinian peace …Flame, CAAhmadinejad was up for election last week and by most accounts was in for quite a fight to remain as President. Amazingly, he "won" by an astonishing margin. In an article in the Wall Street journal, Amir Taheri writes that "Mr. Ahmadinejad was …Netanyahu Nixes […]
Telegraph.co.uk
Iran's Guardian Council: Election Was KosherSlateUSA Today leads with numbers that show the foreclosure crisis is spreading. According to the paper's analysis, the "foreclosure rates in 40 of the nation's counties that have the most households have already doubled from last year. …Mass Democracy Fails in Iran The Progress ReportIran Clerics Rule Out Election Annulment […]
USA Today
Despite everything, more Americans see sunny skies aheadUSA TodayBy Susan Page, USA TODAY MEXICO, Missouri — Americans say they're still in a tunnel, but more are beginning to see a light at its end. Fewer people say they've prospered over the past year than in decades, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds. …
The Associated Press
New US Anglicans launch, to ban women, gays as bishopsUSA TodayIn 2003 the Episcopal governing body ratified the election of an openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. Divisions deepened with the 2006 election of presiding bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori . Duncan and other conservative leaders have …New church seeks leaders : […]
guardian.co.uk
Obama's reticence on Iran stirs stew of opinionUSA TodayMeanwhile, Republicans such as John mccain , Obama's rival in last year's US election, accuse the president of not doing enough to help democratic supporters in Iran. Obama "really is up against a rock and a hard place on this," said Suzanne Maloney, …Video: New Video Shows […]
