It is June 4th again. A time to remember when freedom hit a Chinese wall ... and at least one man kept protesting: If Tank Man is still aliv...

So the Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis is running around, campaigning - rather badly at it - for the 2024 Republican nomination for the pre...

My home Internet is dead (again) so I am struggling to blog through other means (again) so I am back with a quick observation about yet anot...

Another June 4th, another round of China squelching protestors out of fear (via AP News by way of NPR). Heavy police force patrolled Hong K...

Let Paul Krugman at the New York Times (paywall) set the indictment not only for DeSantis but for the entire Republican philosophy of ...

We are still in a precarious and devastating situation with donald trump sitting in the White House. 1) trump is making plans to visit wit...

( Update note : Hello to everyone visiting via Crooks And Liars !  Thank you for the link to Mike's Blog Round-Up, and I hope everyone i...

Today is the 25th anniversary of the government crackdown on the freedom protesters in Tiananmen Square: And it's been 25 years won...

Still unfinished business regarding the Tiananmen protests .  :( I've said before... I hope Tank Man is still alive.  I hope I can me...

President Mubarak of Egypt, after 30 years of authoritarian rule, stepped down from office today .  The country's leadership is pretty m...

The elections that began the whole brouhaha that ought to lead to Iranian democracy happened last year. As I've written then and is r...

Today was (as I'm writing this the day there has passed into night) a big day for Iran.  22 Bahman is the official day of victory for th...

There's blood in the streets it's up to my ankles/ Blood in the streets it's up to my knee/ Blood in the streets in the town of ...

Been a bit busy today with final exams, but the Iranian students seemed to be a bit busy as well . This was a day of remembrance of sorts - ...

It's been some time since I've posted on Iran. Mostly because the green uprising over there had quieted down due to the illegal reg...

A woman I know from mah high school days just posted an entry on Facebook. She has Iranian friends, one in particular that was IN Iran but...

Links to Sullivan (well to his site, he's off on vacation this week) and to Pitney . Rafsanjani's speech was today, rumors about ho...

After more than a week of relative calm, the populus is back up in arms and the streets again filled with smoke and spattered with blood. T...

Via Sullivan via the NY Times , news is out that the the Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qom are calling the tainted presidential...

...but there's still outrage among the Iranian population. It's just we are seeing the signs of the theocratic junta's willingn...