Glenn Greenwald on various topics here.

On Iran:

(4) Speaking of Iran, I don't have any idea what really happened with its presidential election -- if, as Juan Cole argues, there was widespread fraud, that would be entirely unsurprising -- but Newsweek's long-time Middle East reporter Christopher Dickey persuasively warns against the emerging assumption that the anti-Ahmedinejad views expressed by middle class and cosmopolitan Iranians and promoted by the Western press are representative of a majority of Iranians. In Brazil, if you ask middle class, professional and/or educated Brazilians what they think of President Lula da Silva, you would conclude that he is an intensely despised figure, when -- in reality -- he is profoundly popular among a majority of Brazilians largely due to the deep support from that country's poor and under-education population (much the same way that you'd get vastly disparate responses if, in 2004, you went to Manhattan and then to rural Kansas and solicited opinions of George Bush). Dickey suggests that the same dynamic exists in Iran.

The point is, a politician that poor people like is often hated by the elite, for the obvious diametrically opposed reasons.

Witness Chávez, Juan Evo Morales etc etc.

Greenwald misses the mark in talking about George Bush, the people in Kansas are not all poor, but poor or not they are more likely to fall prey to that sort of delusion.

Never saw the link until I noticed my hit count spike. Thanks, Mike.

and we will be successful.