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Looked at one way, the results of the European parliamentary elections, held across the European Union's 27 member states last week, can be seen as a continent-wide rejection of the center left and an embrace of the center right - with some far-right candidates doing well, too. Socialist and social democratic parties were badly beaten, despite the global economic crisis and misgivings in Europe about unbridled capitalism. "Voters do not want socialism, they want a market system that works," reckoned Corien Wortmann-Kool, who was re-elected for the Dutch center-right CDA party...
...panel has been plagued by controversy, which has also hampered its effectiveness. Its two Republican members complain that the panel has drifted away from its core mission under Warren's leadership and spends too much time editorializing on the plight of middle-class families, the focus of Warren's academic research. Her relationship with Treasury has been rocky. She got into a low-level war with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and his staff over their perceived unwillingness to share information, and she had a shaky start with Geithner, who didn't seem to take the panel seriously at first...
...reasons behind the departures of Seidner, HMC's managing director for domestic fixed income, and Michael Llodra, a member of the fixed-income investment team, are unclear. But the news comes four months after HMC announced it would lay off roughly 50 workers, or a quarter of its staff, to "re-balance and re-engineer the organization...
...vigilante Internet mob that discovers the identities and publishes personal details of those who displease netizens - also swung into action. The group claimed that a Beijing youth, depicted in a CCTV program as a university student who had mounted an anti-Google campaign, was actually a CCTV staff member...
Dramatic as all that sounds, it doesn't square with the reality described by Iran experts. Diplomats, academics and intelligence officials say most people inside Iran want nothing to do with the NCRI or its primary member organization, Mujehadine-e-Khalq (MEK) - whose bloody attacks on the Iranian regime in the 1980s and '90s landed it on the U.S.'s terrorism list. Experts say the NCRI's support in Iran is now tiny and its international base is shrinking. The NCRI and MEK, say Iran watchers, have become little more than an excuse - or handy alibi - for Tehran's crackdown...