“I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.”
Hugo Chavez

That wacky Hugo Chavez is at it again. In his quest to raise awareness of his image and rid the world of capitalism, he has met with Jimmy [...]

“The Great Satan”, that term, a description of the United States, was coined by Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979. The phrase is often followed by the chant, “marg bar Amrika”, which means death to America.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a little bit more subtle than his good friend Hugo Chavez. Mahmoud chooses his words with a little more [...]

Here is a funny little side note to the Iran stuff I’ve been writing about. It seems that Oliver Stone has a hankering to make a film about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mahmoud has told Stone no. This is from a news24.com piece.
Ahmadinejad’s media advisor, Mehdi Kalhor, said that Stone had requested to make a film about [...]