No one in Iran calls it a Twitter Revolution except a bunch of English
language mainstream media journalists. In fact they started calling it
Twitter Revolution because the Iranian government kicked out all the foreign
journalists and arrested many Iranian ones, and then the corporate media
journal
"What is dismissed as an "alliance" with Ahmedinejad
which is not "something to celebrate" is instead the confluence of the
national interests of Venezuela and Iran, two countries that are special
targets of imperialism."
I thought this was an interesting comment by Joaquin. I would say there
is
Joaquin Bustelo wrote:
> And I say "alleged rhetoric" and "supposed repression" because, as we say in
> Spanish, "a mi no me consta": I do not know these things for a fact.
The record of the Islamic Republic on the treatment of prisoners is
quite clear. They do torture political prisoners. Ervand
Leonardo Kosloff: "The point is Chávez evades the question because he wants
to, or rather, sees it as necessary to, build a political-economic (those
are different sides of the same coin) alliance with Ahmedinejad. If you
think this is something to celebrate, then 'unthinkingly' is perhaps a word
w
Mina Khanlarzadeh: "then what is the difference between Hugo Chavez and Fox
news? they both ignore atrocities commited by their favorite governments."
Another demonstration of how imperialist pressure distorts people's
thinking. To put an equal signs between the white genocide against native
peopl
