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Comment Roundup
The Guardian
Clive Stafford Smith, Binyam Mohamed: A shameful cover up
Timothy Garton Ash, The sight of Ukraine’s lumpen victor should stir the EU’s own into action
Dan Roberts, Better Greece than Iceland
The Telegraph
Anna Dixon, Key questions for an ageing population
Edmund Conway, Greece could bring euroland to its knees
Editorial: Binyam Mohamed and British security
The Times
Anatole Kaletsky, Greek tragedy won’t end on the euro’s death
Editorial: The dark corner
The Independent
Steve Richards, The tide has turned and the Tories are swimming against it
The Washington Post
David Ignatius, Europe could use its own tea party
E.J. Dionne, Tempest in a tea party
The New York Times
Nicholas Kristof, The grotesque vocabulary in Congo
Reuel Marc Gerecht, Iran, beacon of liberty?
The Huffington Post
Omid Memarian, Hardline Iranian judiciary likely to execute more dissidents
The Daily Caller
Christian Whiton, Buying time for Iran’s Green Movement