International Political Will

Watching, reading, listening, and even trying to actually decipher the media’s coverage of Iran’s elections is becoming an exercise in blissful ignorance, simplistic dichotomies, and pure unadulterated stupidity.

One might be led to believe that Ahmedinejad is a long-entrenched, all-powerful dictator with a history of rigging elections, in the mold of Mugabe or Mubarak (oops, Mubarak [...]

The West often rails against the rampant corruption that plagues developing countries. From our perspective, it seems that corruption is a major obstacle that prevents many countries from obtaining the progress we have enjoyed. Yet we may be wrongly assuming our own value placed on an honest politician is the ideal for everyone else.
Yesterday, I [...]