[lbo-talk] Iran protest news sources

Left-Wing Wacko leftwingwacko at gmail.com
Sat Jun 20 15:01:17 PDT 2009


On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com>wrote:


>
> >
> > No doubt you prefer the "patriotic" tyranny to the
> > "subordinate" one, but why?
>
> [WS:] "Patriotic" is a bit misleading here. A better term would be
> "theocratic," no? The president is for the most part a figurehead, and the
> actual power is wielded by a bunch of religious shysters.
>
> Wojtek
>

But it appears as though the conflict is being played out within the theocracy. Thought this Al Jazeera in English piece was interesting on that topic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UG7e0OYDt0 -- http://left-wingwacko.blogspot.com/



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