This hilarious video by Jibjab called “He’s Barack Obama” debuted in front of President Obama last night at the annual black tie Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner. Here are the lyrics: When darkness had descended all across the land A lone voice in the distance uttered Yes! We Can! He gave good speeches. Never Sweat….
This is a very disturbing, graphic video clip of the scenes in Iran today on June 20th. It gives a sense of the chaos and the massive involvement of regular citizens. This just in from a dependable source over twitter: Fatemiyeh Hospital Tehran: 30-40 dead as of 11pm; 200 injured. Police taking names of injured….
(photo credit: David Bass) International political consultant David Bass, CNN’s Edie Emery, Bloomberg’s uber connected PR diva Judith Czelusniak, Hollywood on the Potomac’s Janet Donovan, and Politico’s Mike Allen had a “recovery brunch” this morning in Georgetown following the pretty incredible MSNBC After Party festivities following the Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner with Barack…
It’s a good thing when a President and Vice President have constructive, creative tension in their relationship and don’t see eye to eye on everything.
There are scattered reports being texted out of Iran that a massive police presence has blocked Mousavi-supporting protesters from entering the large square. Many reports of people shot — and many beatings. The basiji are using tear gas and reportedly gassed a crowd of 3000 people to make them disperse.
One of my colleagues at the New America Foundation’s Global Strategic Finance Initiative, Douglas Rediker, received this note from a friend abroad. It’s illuminating as to how a well-connected Iranian internationalist who has been in Tehran during much of the post-election unrest sees matters now.
Can all of these people, their emotions, their cries of “death to the dictator!” be stuffed back deep into Iran’s political status quo? Some powerful images at the art and culture site, Tehran Avenue.
Dispatches from Tehran — The Metro Ride — sent 11:27 am, 19 June 2009 The crowd pushes in. I think of those scenes from Tokyo of the metro officers, the ones with the white gloves squeezing and packing with all their might. We are all arms, legs, elbows.
This is a guest post written by “Shane M.” — an anonymous student in Tehran who has been writing dispatches from Tehran for The Washington Note over the last week. Shane M. has a major op-ed in today’s New York Times titled “A Different Iranian Revolution.
For the last several days, I have been running “dispatches” from an anonymous student in Tehran. Through The Washington Note, he has developed an enormous audience interested in his on-site, real time observations of the post-election convulsions in Iran.