New York- So weird. A week ago today I was getting thrown around Long Island City by 90 mph gales as Hurricane Sandy thrashed Queen’s over gentrified littoral while NYPD barked on loudspeakers through sheets of rain not to get…
Category: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
It’s a Hazy Shade of Winter on the Syrian Border
Antakya- I have an article out in today’s edition of Asia Times Online on my view from a rain soaked Hatay Province of events just over the border in a besieged Syria. It’s been raining here nonstop since my arrival,…
Iran’s Elections: Dear Supreme Leader
Keep that momentous pixelated video coming! I posted a piece addressed to Ayatollah Khamenei last night on the HP here. According to the Guardian, during the called-for day of mourning, protests are not letting up from Kurdistan to Baluchistan and…
Iran’s Elections: And Ya Don’t Stop!
A bird’s eye view video, I’m guessing from a mobile phone, shows the breadth of the crisis the Iranian leadership must now genuinely face. The Iranian government’s strategy of blocking websites and giving foreign journo’s the shoe is inherently flawed.…
Iran’s Elections: Days of Rage
Is this Iran’s Tianamen? Tehran’s restive urban class does not appear to be slowing down its outrage over what opposition supporters are terming a “Stolen Election.” Though without maintaining empirical evidence thus far, those opposed to the Ahmadinejad government here…