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Iran's fatwa for freedom
July 16, 2009, Comments Off on Iran's fatwa for freedom

John Locke meets Ayatollah Montazeri The spirit of Thomas Jefferson is alive and well and living in Iran. Grand Ayatolla ...

Payam Akhavan: The West must stand by Iranian protesters
June 30, 2009, Comments Off on Payam Akhavan: The West must stand by Iranian protesters

The West must stand by Iranian protesters The Ottawa Citizen June 30, 2009 June 15, 2009, will be remembered as a turnin ...

International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
June 29, 2009, Comments Off on International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

(Reuters/Planet Ark) Member states of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) voted to locate their headquarte ...

Statement by a group of Iranian bloggers
June 26, 2009, Comments Off on Statement by a group of Iranian bloggers

Statement by a group of Iranian bloggers about the Presidential elections and the subsequent events 1) We, a group of Ir ...

Rick Sindelar on Iran
June 24, 2009, Comments Off on Rick Sindelar on Iran

Protesters’ tenacity to decide the future in Iran By H. RICHARD SINDELAR (Houston Chronicle) The mullahs have miscalcu ...

Wednesday Night #1424
June 17, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1424

Update on Hungary Although the member nations of the European Union have benefited enormously from the elimination of ph ...

Thomas Friedman: Winds of Change?
June 14, 2009, Comments Off on Thomas Friedman: Winds of Change?

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about the Middle East, and recently I was thinking of updating it with a new introducti ...

Wednesday Night #1423
June 10, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1423

See Wednesday-Night.com for photos and more AECL ; Douglas Lightfoot’s letter of June 7 to Minister Lisa Raitt on ...

Wednesday Night #1422
June 3, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1422

The Fondation universitaire Pierre Arbour  funds students in three disciplines that contribute to Quebec’s econom ...

World economy and Geopolitics
February 23, 2009, Comments Off on World economy and Geopolitics

The Axis of Upheaval By Niall Ferguson (Foreign Policy March/April 2009) As economic calamity meets political and social ...

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