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the verge of another revolution in iran? the images of mostly young people rising up against the regime have captivated all of us. i will talk to an iranian writer who explains what the protestors want. and at a time when economies are struggling around the globe and russia is already getting a billion dollars every few days in oil and gas revenues, why did opec slash production? >> everything has a price. energy security has a price. >> we will explain. but first, heres my take. o...

He determined that economic liberalization was transforming china pro-fundally in a bad way. he believed the communist party was becoming irrelevant with a society dominated by consumerism. so he cracked down in every sphere imaginable, attacking the private sector, reviving communist ideology, purging the party of corrupt officials and ramping up nationalism, mostly anti-western, in word and deed. in this regard, xi follows a familiar paren. in dictatorships where liberalization that have produ...