Reading liberal and left-wing commentary on what’s going on in Iran, I’ve been rather shocked. Everyone–including this writer–transforms into a savagely incisive Iran scholar equipped to pontificate on Iranian society, its domestic political institutions, the velayat-e faqih, the social composition of Ahmadinejad supporters and Mousavi supporters, etc. etc., enlightened by studious Twitter research, perusal of YouTube […]
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One point that Steve Ellner made at the Left Forum presentation that I thought important was that staggeringly high oil prices had enabled Chavismo to split the difference between revolutionary rhetoric and revolution by transferring great chunks of oil revenue to Venezuela’s desperate poor, in the form of subsidized or free education, food, and health-care, while […] Normally I refrain from re-posting whole articles or excessively long excerpts, but this seems a big deal (scintillatingly incisive commentary is below): It was shattered before dawn on Thursday when authorities uncovered what they insist was an assassination plot against Morales. At 4:30 a.m., police surrounded the Hotel de las Americas in downtown Santa Cruz, the capital of […] |
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