McG Comparative Government

Summarize how Deng modernized the Chinese economy by crossing the river by feeling the stone. This is a Chinese expression meaning “to take things step by step.” Deng sought to find out what was best for the Chinese government through dismantling some of the fundamental communist policies. After Deng’s special economic zones was successful, he [...]

Iranian authorities imprisoned and executed a man named Ali Saremi for “fighting against the sacred Islamic Republic of Iran system and launching antagonist propagations.” He was a political prisoner for allegedly being a member of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, which is an opposition organization that has advocated for centuries the overthrow of the Islamic [...]

There are many differences and similarities between the British political system and United States political system which therefore demonstrates how and why the two countries have approached their own economic deficits the way they have. The British mode of government can be described as the “Westminster Model” which is a constitutional monarchy. This means that [...]

In Tehran, Iran a group of underground rappers were arrested for engaging in and recording illegal rap music for various websites and satellite networks. The police raided the vacant houses the group was using to videotape and record music, arrested the people there, and confiscated “western style” music instruments. No information was given as to [...]

“Game resumed: Iran pockets Bushehr and plays on” Iran’s first power-generating nuclear plant is scheduled to start supplying electricity on a national level by the end of this year. Although Iran insists that their nuclear power endeavors are for peaceful purposes, Iran’s refusal to negotiate with countries of the UN and refusal to answer questions [...]

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/09/23/ctw.ahmadinejad.un.cnn http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/09/23/ctw.ahmadinejad.un.cnn Some 20,000 protestors from all over the world gathered in New York to rally against Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who came to the United States to speak before the U.N. Thousands of Iranian-Americans gathered in the streets in order to display their strong opposition against Ahmadinejad and the Islamic regime. Protesters, who said that [...]

“Iran: Courts confirm two more stoning sentences on adultery charges” http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/08/iran-two-more-persons-sentenced-to-stoning-for-adultery.html It has been reported that a forty-three year old Iranian mother of two has been sentenced to stoning by the Iranian judicial system on the basis of adultery. Not long after this sentencing, the Iranian Supreme Court has sentenced two more people to be [...]