General Strike Set [July 9] in Iran In Bid To Topple Mullahs

New York Sun ^ | 4-24-03 | ADAM DAIFALLAH

[putupon]

My tax dollars at work?

[GraniteStateConservative]

NEW YORK, NY — January 15, 2002 — The New York Sun, a new daily broadsheet that will make coverage of New York a priority, will debut on newsstands in the spring of 2002.

The announcement was made today by the newspaper’s president and chief executive officer, Seth Lipsky, who will be editor of The New York Sun, and by its vice president and managing editor, Ira Stoll. Messrs. Lipsky and Stoll will be joined in the leadership of the newspaper by its chief operating officer, William Kummel.

The five-days-a-week publication will offer its readers what no other daily broadsheet in New York City currently provides — a priority focus on the city it serves. It will fill a void created by the collapse of several broadsheets in the city in recent decades and the move by The New York Times to national publication.

"Our mission at The New York Sun will be to provide priority coverage of New York City and the national and international news that affects it and to provide a high-quality broadsheet environment to advertisers desiring to reach the New York market," Mr. Lipsky said. "We will seek an audience in all five boroughs and will aim to produce a newspaper for serious New Yorkers who are participants in the political, commercial, cultural, sporting and spiritual life of this city."

The New York Sun is owned by One SL LLC, which was established in September by Messrs Lipsky and Stoll and a group of distinguished local businessmen, many prominent in civic life in New York. The founders of the paper sense a need for an additional voice in the broadsheet market in the city. The New York Sun will strive to provide competitive coverage of New Yorkers, their politics and policy debates, their schools and cultural institutions, their businesses and labor unions, their philanthropic and not-for-profit institutions, their spiritual, sporting and family lives and their efforts to rebuild.

Coverage of New York will come from The New York Sun's own staff and columnists and a diverse group of freelance contributors and news services. The newspaper will have an honest, objective news report and an outspoken editorial page. The editorial page will stand for growth. It will be for lower taxes and school choice, to cite two examples, and will ventilate many other important issues of civic reform. It will stand for equality under the law and for limited, constitutional government of integrity.

The backers of the Sun include:

Charles Brunie — Chairman Emeritus, Oppenheimer Capital; Former Chairman, Manhattan Institute;

Andrew Cader — Co-CEO & Senior Managing Director, Spear Leeds & Kellogg;

Russell L. Carson — General Partner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; Vice-Chairman, Rockefeller University; Chairman, Inner-City Scholarship Endowment Foundation;

Richard Gilder — Partner, Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co; Founder and Co-Chairman, Club For Growth;

Roger Hertog — Vice Chairman, Alliance Capital Management L.P.; Chairman, Manhattan Institute;

Hollinger International Inc. — Chaired by Conrad Black, Hollinger is the proprietor of, among other publications, The Daily Telegraph in London, The Jerusalem Post in Israel, and the Chicago Sun-Times;

Bruce Kovner — Founder & Chairman, Caxton Corporation; Chairman, The Juilliard School; Chairman, School Choice Scholarship Foundation;

Joe Reich — Founding Investor and Director, New York City Investment Fund; Founder, Beginning with Children Foundation;

Joseph Steinberg — President, Leucadia National Corp.; Trustee, New York University; Trustee, YIVO Institute of Jewish Research;

Michael Steinhardt — Founder, Steinhardt Partners; Founder, Jewish Life Network; Chairman, Tel Aviv University;

Thomas Tisch — Managing Partner, FLF Associates; Board Member, The Municipal Assistance Corporation.

"It is no small thing that a group of businessmen of this caliber has stepped forward -- and stood together -- at this time to back a new newspaper for New York," Mr. Lipsky said. "The common denominator of the members of this group is neither their political nor business interests but the fact that they care about New York."

Headquarters for The New York Sun have been established at 105 Chambers Street, adjacent to City Hall and what had been known as "Newspaper Row" during the era when New Yorkers could select from as many as 17 daily English-language newspapers. The paper will be sold in all five boroughs and will be available for single copy purchase on newsstands and by home delivery.

The New York Sun will will cover news of politics, business, real estate, philanthropy, education, religion, culture, entertainment, and sports. It will include a diverse group of columnists and free-lance op-ed contributors. It will feature special sections on such beats as shopping, fashion, health, technology, food and travel.

Mr. Lipsky has been called by the Boston Globe "a legendary figure in contemporary journalism." Born in Brooklyn and a graduate of Harvard College, Mr. Lipsky spent nearly 20 years with The Wall Street Journal as a reporter, foreign correspondent, foreign editor and member of the editorial board. He left the Journal in 1990 to become founding editor of the Forward, the English-language successor to the Jewish Daily Forward. He was the publication’s president and CEO and its editor from 1990 to 2000.

Mr. Stoll is founding editor of smartertimes.com, which since June 2000 has posted on the world wide web a daily critique of The New York Times that has been quoted and profiled by major publications around the world. He formerly served as Washington correspondent and managing editor of the Forward, as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and as president of the undergraduate daily at Harvard, The Harvard Crimson.

Mr. Kummel is a native of New York and has been involved with marketing, logistics and finances at major local newspapers, including Newsday, New York Newsday and The New York Times. He is a graduate of Yale and holds both business and law degrees from Georgetown University.

The new publication has adopted the name of one of the greatest newspapers in New York history. The original Sun began publication on September 3, 1833, and evolved into one of the nation’s most influential and revered publications. Its final edition was January 4, 1950.

In its storied history, The Sun was noted for its high journalistic and literary standards, its advocacy of reform and integrity in government and its exposes of corruption. It was The Sun that, in 1897, received a letter to the editor from eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon, inquiring if there really was a Santa Claus. She had been told by her father: "If you see it in The Sun, it’s so." The newspaper’s reply, which ran under the headline "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus," became what may be the most widely reprinted column in newspaper history.

Though the new newspaper will seek to illuminate the continuity of some of the ideas that its editors believe will be relevant to reform in New York in years to come, it will not be a revival of the original New York Sun. It will be a 21st century newspaper focusing on the modern story with techniques that have become possible with the advent of the Internet and the world wide web.

[wasp69]

It may happen sooner, with the stated date only a ruse to make the Mullets think they have more time than they actually do.

Awww, c'mon!



What did The Mullets do to anyone!

[realpatriot71]

Reading that made me smile. Am I a bad person?

I'm not in an position to judge, but what I will say is this: if the people who spend their time oppressing their countrymen and supporting terrorism are "out of the picture," then however that happens, it's a good thing.

[D. Brian Carter]

Yeah, unfortunately I have to agree... though it'd be great to get caught up in some optimistic thinking here, my realistic side keeps saying "Remember Tiananmen Square".

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[Chairman Fred]

Not quite. Capsule history of the late Shah:

His father became Shah of a newly organized state post WWI and renamed the country "Iran" (it had been "Persia") and styled himself "Light of the Aryans", among other things.

Fast forward to WWII: Hitler is looking for any leverage he can get against Britain and sees the (older) Shah and his title and decides that the two of them should get together. Winston Churchill takes exception: he has the old man overthrown and his son (whom we know as "the Shah" and was father of Reza Pahlavi) placed on the throne.

After WWII, US foreign policy is to convince the British to give up their Empire and withdraw from "east of Suez" (give up India to the fakir, Ghandhi) and the do so. In 1953, the boy Shah is ousted by a man named Mossadegh, who is all ready to align himself with the USSR and bring Nasser-Assad-Hussein style rule to Iran. Ike realizes what's going on and has the CIA throw Mossadegh out, and so we inherit the Shah. Until Jimmy The Ignoble decides that Khomeini is really a pro-feminist, vegetarian environmentalist pacifist and lets the Shah be killed.

Maybe W will rewrite another bit of history.

[js1138]

Ike realizes what's going on and has the CIA throw Mossadegh out, and so we inherit the Shah.

That's not incompatible with what I said, but thanks for the details.

The sad thing is that so many of these folks have no concept of having a government that will give opportunities to their descendents. They're all like so many democrats. Me. Now.

[CurlyBill]

Nice!!! We need to seize the opportunity here... Hopefuly, the State Dept won't step in and screw this up! My only fear is a Tiananmen Square type response from the Mad Mullahs. This would be monumental! I have to give some credit here... Gen. Paul Vallely of FoxNews predicted months ago that a victory in Iraq would soon be followed by a collapse of the Iranian regime. Let's pray that this is so!

[knighthawk]

Good news.

[M Kehoe]

Maybe, just maybe the Persians are figuring it out.

In the fwiw worth dept, I predicted here (circa July 2002), that the Islamic regime would fall in 18-24 months. And it will.

5.56mm

[CyberAnt]

This is great news! However, I wish someone would explain to me why they would announce this so far in advance ...??

[reformedliberal]

Nope. He's quiet and invisible and barely referenced even historically in even the mainstream press. Not a word on Cuba, for example.

As someone whose disillusionment w/the left began in 1972, I have had a horror of Carter for almost 30 years. How nice to neither see him, hear him, or listen to praises to him.

May W do what Reagan almost did: banish all memories of Jimmah.

[Stultis]

We DEFINITELY need to send a few million to the students for radios, computers, buses, literature, etc. No covert ops are necessary, just a small overt grant of funds (in fact the more overt the better) to help them make the strike a success.

Has anything been proposed in congress? How about all the peace activists who claim that they want to support liberation without war, through non-violence? Well, here's their chance. Where's Sarandon/Robbins/A.N.S.W.E.R./NION on this? Of course they will be on the side of the tyrants, as usual, but many others who did not support Iraq would support this, or could be shamed into doing so.

[Stultis]

Any wonder why Iran is trying to force an Islamic state on Iraq, class?

Oooh, oooh, oooh. I know, I know! So the mullahs will have someplace to flee to when they're tossed out on their collective clymers?

[Stultis]

Ike realizes what's going on and has the CIA throw Mossadegh out

I've heard the "real story" is that the opposition to Mossawhozitz was genuinely indigenous and in no way engineered by the CIA; that practically all we did was to buy them some radio transmitters and provide some training in their use; and that the CIA later hyped their role to get attaboys and more money from Congress.

[freedom44]

Please don't compare an Arabic country like Iraq to a Persian country like Iran. calling Iran an 'eastern Iraq' is highly unfair and historically, ethnically, and culturally ignorant.

[Howlin]

FYI.

[DonQ]

Please don't compare an Arabic country like Iraq to a Persian country like Iran. calling Iran an 'eastern Iraq' is highly unfair and historically, ethnically, and culturally ignorant.

I know the difference, of course. But my point is that Dubya, having scored his decisive success in Iraq (his campaign in Afghanistan being less obviously successful), will now go looking for further victories in the immediate vicinity of Iraq in all directions.

[PhilDragoo]

Skeet with schmucks. Pull!

DANIEL PIPES, DIRECTOR, MIDDLE EAST FORUM: Well, first, yes. The Iranian regime, which is faltering ideologically, is losing support domestically. I call it the Brezhnevite era in Iran. It's a strong state, but a hollow state because fewer and fewer people believed in the ideology.

Suddenly, they have this opportunity next door. There's a substantial population of similar-minded—or similarly—similar people of similar religion who are very interested in what they have to offer, and it has, as you just accurately described, real potential in Iraq of the sort that it doesn't in Iran.

Rescind Reagan Executive Order 12333 and do unto Khatami with extreme prejudice.

Ditto any Shiite demagogue in Basra.

No more terror states--hear that, Arafat and your tumor Abbas/Mozen?

Pipes summarizes his position in a sentence:

My single summary sentence is that militant Islam is the problem and moderate Islam is the solution.

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The US must support freedom fighters in Iran--and in Cuba.
No more betrayals a la 1991 Iraq and 1956 Hungary.