(Video) Bachmann again hammers Obama on Libya
By Andy Birkey |
10.31.11 | 6:00 am
Bachmann said Gaddafi’s overthrow has left “a mess.”
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Bachmann on Iran: U.S. needs to do more than talk
By Andy Birkey |
11.18.10 | 9:51 am
Speaking at a conservative symposium on Iran at the National Press Club Wednesday, Rep. Michele Bachmann called Iran “a danger to every nation in the world” and said “we know that they [Iran] already have a nuclear capability.” She said Iran has “crossed the line” and that the United States “needs to do more than the simple engagement strategy of talking.” She did not elaborate on what that new strategy might entail.
Ellison: Freedom in Iran belongs to Iranians
By Andy Birkey |
03.16.10 | 8:30 am
Rep. Keith Ellison spoke at the National Iranian American Council last week about the struggles facing the Iranian people as they protest the current regime. Ellison, Congress’ first Muslim, told attendees that freedom should be supported but not enforced.
Ellison calls on Minnesotans to “show solidarity” with Iran protesters
By Andy Birkey |
02.16.10 | 9:10 am
Rep. Keith Ellison has been vocal in recent weeks about the plight of the people of Iran, many of whom are taking to the streets demanding increased freedoms under a totalitarian government. In December, Ellison introduced a bill imposing stricter sanctions on Iran, and now he’s urging Minnesotans to stand in solidarity with the people of Iran.
Demonstrators in Minneapolis raise voices in support of Iran protestors
By Chris Steller |
06.24.09 | 5:58 pm
The message on a Minneapolis street corner Wednesday was unmediated: VIVA IRAN. That and dozens of other slogans of the Iranian protest movement were carried on signs and on the mercifully cooler air that wafted through downtown, where a crowd of as many as 200 people gathered in a semicircle for urgent call-and-response chants.
Twitter’s utility for protests, now evident in Iran, debuted in St. Paul during RNC
By Chris Steller |
06.22.09 | 10:23 am
Iran has proven the headline prescient, even if the terminology needed tweaking: “The revolution will be Twittered.” That was the title of Tom Elko’s Sept. 9, 2008, Minnesota Independent post…
Fargo journalist hospitalized from Iran hunger strike
By Paul Schmelzer |
05.04.09 | 9:11 am
She was supposed to be in Minnesota this weekend giving the commencement address at her alma mater, but instead journalist Roxana Saberi was hospitalized in Tehran after two weeks on a hunger strike, according to…
Palin’s pals: the America-hating, Iran-conspiring Alaska Independence Party
By Andy Birkey |
10.07.08 | 5:51 pm
As the guilt-by-association game continues in the presidential campaign, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s ties to the Alaska Independence Party are coming under intense scrutiny. Salon.com reports that the founder of AIP, Joe Vogler, asked the Iranian government…
October Surprise? Jerusalem Post says Bush wants to attack Iran before his term ends
By Steve Perry |
05.20.08 | 9:19 am
From today’s JPost: “US President George W. Bush intends to attack Iran in the upcoming months, before the end of his term, Army Radio quoted a senior official in Jerusalem as saying Tuesday. The official claimed that…
Bolton to bring bold new ideas of aggression to Twin Cities
By Tom Elko |
05.15.08 | 9:19 am
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton will be the keynote speaker at tonight’s annual dinner for the conservative policy institute Center of the American Experiment (CAE) at the St. Paul…
