this revolution, baby, proves who you work for lately

[misora]

Thanks to evilhanyou for discussing news events in her eljay that I actually care about, instead of, you know, the US media spouting the fact that Kobe Bryant led the Lakers to another victory the other night, or that Kate Gosselin hired police to chase paparazzi away from her $1.1 million mansion.


I think this pic says it all.




More pictures are here.


Edit, 11:15pm:

And this is a great resource for up-to-date information, believe it or not: here, at ontd_political.

Comments

[xmurcielagox.livejournal.com]

He wont do anything unfortunately because he's too worried about what he's going to spend our tax payers money on next. I once believed in him but he's like all our last presidents, the same with a bit of socialism mixed in.

[misora.livejournal.com]

LOL, well I think it's still a little early in his presidency to declare he's like all of our last presidents...he's probably between a rock and a hard place in regards to mending the fences with Tehran, and he can't be pissing off the Iranian president-elect if he hopes to continue in that path. Of course it's no thanks to the last few presidents who basically put Iran on the backburner and ignored them for about 20 years.

According to Obama, it's going to be up to the people of Iran to change their country -- I wish it didn't have to be that way -- and while I think they have a long road ahead of them, an official inquiry (perhaps with EU/outside help) into this election would be a great start.

[manonlechat.livejournal.com]

He might end up doing a disservice to the protesters if he came out strongly in their favor. The US is NOT popular in Iran; Obama may be trying to change that perception, but it remains the situation (and for reasons that go beyond the recent invasion of Iraq). If the government spun it as if the US was trying to manipulate or influence the elections, it might seriously dent the credibility of the protests among the Iranian people, esp. those who may be sitting on the sidelines at the moment.

[misora.livejournal.com]

You're exactly right; intervention might very well hand a propaganda weapon to Ahmadinejad. That said, I hope the photos and reports keep coming in from inside the country...because if there's a communication silence, some very bad things could happen there and the world wouldn't be witness to it.

I'd like to think that Ahmadinejad's not that evil, but... I don't know.