by Sean Penn/Ross Mirkarimi/Reese Erlich July 21, 2009 During our travels to Iran in 2005, Penn and Erlich interviewed numerous ordinary Iranians. People were very friendly towards us as Americans but very hostile to U.S. policy against their country. We visited Friday prayers where 10,000 people chanted “Death to America.” Afterwards those same people invited us home [...]

por Thelma Mejía 21 de julio, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA, 21 jul (IPS) – Algunos temen que a consecuencia del golpe de Estado del 28 de junio en Honduras se desate una guerra civil similar al baño de sangre de 1924, que fue resultado de un fraude electoral en este país centroamericano.

by Michael Doyle July 20, 2009 Washington – A federal district judge ruled Monday that the CIA repeatedly misled him in asserting that state secrets were involved in a 15-year-old lawsuit involving allegedly illegal wiretapping. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also ordered former CIA director George Tenet and five other CIA officials to explain their actions or face [...]

by Sasan Fayazmanesh July 21, 2009 We often have a tendency to reduce complex social situations to simplistic scenarios, where there is only black or white and no shades of gray, only heroes or villains and nothing in between. Such seems to be the attitude of many Iran analysts, particularly those on the progressive side, toward the [...]

Woman claims to have seen piles of corpses, as tension rises in Tehran over Rafsanjani speech

by William K. Black July 1, 2009 President Obama’s financial regulation proposal is doomed to fail. Why? Because it was developed by people who don’t believe in regulation.

Massive Columbus foreclosure case shows how some landlords take advantage of a $56 billion no-fault fund, leaving taxpayers on the hook for millions and tenants living in squalor By Geoff Dutton June 7, 2009 A group of well-connected local landlords received $26.6 million in federally backed mortgages to buy six apartment complexes for $13.4 million. They were supposed to [...]

VIDEO: Protests In Iran – June 15-16, 2009 Doctors and nurses protest outside of a hospital in Tehran.