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Green Movement Spreading Despite Crackdown
Institute for War & Peace Reporting, November 13, 2009
Government violence reduced number of street protests, but movement has become more difficult to control.
The presidential election of June 12, which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared to have won, gave birth to a grassroots movement that has been evolving politically, embracing broader segments of the population, disc Continue..
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Iran's Many Wars
Foreign Policy Journal
June 25, 2009
A specter is haunting Iran, the specter of a bloody civil war. Underneath the heroic movement for democracy by millions of Iranians, we are witnessing the final acts of a protracted war for the control of the Iranian economy, and the possibility of violent confrontations within the conservative block that ruled the country in the past thirty year Continue..
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Changing the Face of Iranian Politics
Iranian Youth Make History
Counterpunch
June 16, 2009
Glued to my computer screen, I watch young Iranians making a theater of defiance through their peaceful protests in the streets of Tehran and other big cities in my country. They are making history. My soul is tormented by the images of young men and women enduring the beatings by the members of the anti-riot police, while calmly protesting the grand Continue..
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The Great Power Grab - American Road to Economic Crisis
May 2009
Like most of you out there, I feel bewildered when I listen to the policy makers’ explanation of the economic crisis, or read about their plans to get the economy back on track. I consider myself a person of reasonable intellect. I teach political economy, and write about related subjects. But I had to read Timothy Geithner’s “final plan” for the toxic assets owned by our troubl Continue..
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A Wrong Policy and Its Consequences:
Blaming the Yuan for the Deficit with China
Counterpunch, May 1, 2008
The U.S. deficit with China had reached a record high, and the Americans were increasing the pressure on the Chinese government to further revalue the yuan to help reduce the trade gap when I visited Charles Lee in his medium-size factory in Shenzhen one late evening last summer. Clad in hooded uniforms, young men and women were busy, making decorative soa Continue..
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The Yuan Is Not The Problem
International Herald Tribune, Monday, December 17, 2007
The conventional wisdom among most American policy makers and commentators gazing on the huge U.S. trade deficit with China is that the yuan must be revalued. But evidence from the past two years suggests that a revaluation would have little impact on the deficit, and would only to hurt Chinese workers and small manufacturers. Continue..
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Refugees are an overlooked casualty of Iraq war
USA Today, February 6, 2007
Casualties of the war in Iraq are many; among them are the 3.8 million refugees (including some who fled before the U.S. invasion) and internally displaced people. They are the hidden victims of the war in Iraq.
Not long ago, in 1991, the first Gulf War produced another massive refugee crisis in Iraq. Encouraged by the promise of U.S. support, milli Continue..
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Meanwhile: An Iranian, a coup and regime change
International Herald Tribune
Monday, January 29, 2007
I watched with anxiety President George W. Bush's seventh State of the Union address, hoping for words that would ease my fear that America would soon bomb Iran, my place of birth. The address however re- affirmed my worse nightmares.
Another war seems imminent, a war that will only weaken the fragile democ Continue..
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Iranian distrust of America is 50 years in the making
USA Today, February 21, 2005
Twenty-six years ago this month, an Islamic government replaced a pro-U.S. dynasty in Iran. In the process, Iran declared America its No. 1 enemy.
At the time, I was a graduate student at Fordham University in New York. The students were enraged by the developments in Iran. For one, they were appalled by the cries of "Death to America" that echoed Continue..
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