Category Archives: Freedom

Great News From Afghanistan

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Thanos

Because it’s just another dry statistic, you aren’t going to hear much about this in the media, but in Afghanistan infant mortality has dropped by 18% over the Taliban era. That means there are healthier children being provided better care, and that Afghanistan has a brighter future. Continue reading →

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Zimbabwe: a Country Where Sheryl Crow Makes Sense

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Thanos

Zimbabwe, a country where even Sheryl Crow makes sense. Continue reading →

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The F-word, or Why I Won’t Vote for McCain

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Thanos

The surrender-deadline bill has now passed the Senate, and it took everything the Dems had to make it so, including a lot of votes bought through pork. It’s unconscionable, it’s terribly wrong, and it’s demoralizing to our troops, to our … Continue reading →

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NWFP – Three Decades of Time

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Thanos

For an illuminating nutshell history from the Pathan perspective please see this article by Abdul Quayyum Khan Kundi in the Frontier Post. While I don’t agree with everything he says, he does give you a view of how things got … Continue reading →

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Runaway Reid

Posted on April 21, 2007 by Thanos

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, As home his footsteps he hath turn’d, From wandering on a foreign … Continue reading →

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Czar Putin

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Thanos

President Putin of Russia is acting notably imperial of late. 21 Oppostion journalists have been slain the past few years, he’s strongarmed every former Soviet satellite state there is, he’s cracked down on capitalism, and recently stifled dissent within his country. He is also adamantly against missile defense for Europe. Continue reading →

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Chinese Internet Crackdown Coming

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Thanos

Don’t for a second believe that this is about pornography, it’s no more about porn than the Taliban burning CD shops is. It’s the march of repression against freedom, ignorance against ideas, indoctrination against education. Continue reading →

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Freedom Advocates From China Sue Yahoo

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Thanos

China sentenced Wang Xiaoning to ten years in prison last year for “incitement to subvert state power” …. for a blog that advocated open democratic choice of leaders. His family has now filed suite in US District Court against Yahoo and their Chinese affiliates, alleging that they provided the information that allowed the government to convict him based on his internet site. Continue reading →

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Sudan Joins Janjaweed in Genocide

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Thanos

New York Times reports that Sudanese planes falsely flagged as UN are running weapons and bombs into Darfur, and participating in aerial surveillance and bombing according to a confidential UN report Continue reading →

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The Death of a Good Man

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Thanos

Liviu Librescu, professor from Israel, holocaust survivor, and a good man: may you rest in peace with our deep and ever-abiding respect. Continue reading →

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