Recent Posts Tagged With iran

• Iranian Bob Dylan to rock Stanford University

  Posted on Wednesday February 3rd, 2010 at 09:17 pm in iran mohsen commentary on current events namjoo

  Alright, if you had a dime for every time someone was called the “new Bob Dylan” or any other kind of Bob Dylan other than the real one, you’d have at least the price of a Happy Meal. But, although that label may be nothing more tha...

• Odds and Ends

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 08:35 pm in obama fox iran russian commentary on current events

  Read Ron Radosh on “The White House’s War Against Fox News,” and on Mark Lloyd, an Obama appointee to the FCC with some curious history. … Hillary goes to Russia, and comes away with … well, you decide. Pressuring Iran ...

• Standing up at the United Nations

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 09:22 pm in iran United Nations u.n. netanyahu commentary on current events

  Today there was a rally near the U.N. in New York City, with the theme of “Stand for Freedom in Iran.” RWB contributed to increasing the turnout (which seemed very strong to me) by the precise amount of one person and a fourteen-pound mix...

• Mohsen Namjoo — “Iran’s Bob Dylan” — sentenced to five years in prison

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 08:24 pm in music iran prison bob dylan mohsen namjoo

  Mohsen Namjoo, who has been described before in the press as “Iran’s Bob Dylan,” has been sentenced to five years in prison in Iran (he is currently abroad so the sentence is in absentia) for disrespectfully utilizing verses from th...

• Carnage in Iran

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 03:34 pm in election iran protests commentary on current events

  Pamela Geller has pulled together the horrific stories and clips from what has clearly been an incredibly gruesome day in Iranian history. Shot by snipers, beaten to death by thugs, their bodies even stolen from the hospital by the agents of a regime...

• Notes on Iran

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 08:15 pm in obama iran thaddeus neda commentary on current events

  For your consideration: In the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI and Bob Dylan fan) spoke to the Iranian situation, in particular focusing on the killing of Neda Soltan, and making some pointed remarks regarding the posture...