Author: quetzlcloth
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Wasn’t supposed to happen
From an anonymous student, in the NYT: It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. Until last week, Mr. Moussavi was a nondescript, if competent, politician — as one of his campaign advisers put it to me, he was meant only to be an instrument for making Iran a tiny bit better, nothing more. Iranians knew…
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Why burn the meals on wheels?
Berlin is a safe city, by American standards. I’ve never felt particularly threatened here; even Kotbusser Tor, the corner/U-bahn station that until recently served as the city’s recognized open-air drug market, never felt anything like as threatening as walking in various streets in San Francisco late at night. Race violence is an issue in some…
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Watching Iran
A road to Damascus moment for me with Twitter this morning. Obsessed with watching the protests and post-stolen-election ripples in Iran, I found my way to #IranElection, and realized how much more information, direct from people on the ground, was there. It’s ongoing now, if slowing down. It’s modern, unfiltered news, which means rumors and…
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Time to breathe again
All is most definitely not right with the world. But some things have been turned right-side-up again, for the first time in a long while.