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Honduras, not quite #Iran
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/add04983-6658-4747-bf94-0dbfec570857/7CEBF9F0-CEA6-4423-BD73-5DB009127632/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/30/rundle-honduras-not-quite-iran/" href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/30/rundle-honduras-not-quite-iran/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.crikey.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/30/rundle-honduras-not-quite-iran/"><H2 class="entry-title">Honduras, not quite #Iran</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/30/rundle-honduras-not-quite-iran/">the Honduran coup has been greeted with near silence from the right, which was waxing lyrical about the brave youth of Iran — whom they would cheerfully see bombed to crap if Israel asked them to — despite the fact that the military has now closed down all anti-coup TV and radio stations, including CNN Espanol, and the Latin America wide Telesur network.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/30/rundle-honduras-not-quite-iran/"><P>Despite the fact that the protests in Honduras look much more like a full pro-democracy uprising than Iran — the Hondurans are less enamoured with Twitter than with building barricades and fighting back on the street — the coverage has not taken on the holy narrative of the advancing western enlightenment that Iran has been constructed as.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/30/rundle-honduras-not-quite-iran/">The dodge is that Zelaya is allegedly breaching the constitution — a document drafted in 1982 when Honduras was a cold-war fiefdom and which, very democratically, prohibits referenda altogether.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/30/rundle-honduras-not-quite-iran/">an actual full-bore fight for democracy goes on</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/30/rundle-honduras-not-quite-iran/">the right will continue </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7CEBF9F0-CEA6-4423-BD73-5DB009127632/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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