Category: No More Tyrants
On the Matter of Freedom, We Should Never Be on China’s Side
On Friday, the Nobel committee will award the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who truly deserves it, a Chinese dissident named Liu Xiaobo. Mr. Liu won’t be there to receive his award because he is in a Chinese prison, serving an 11-year sentence for “subversion”. His wife won’t be there either, because the tyrants in [...]
The Leaks that Should Get Breathless Worldwide Coverage Today
If you’re looking for a more gripping story than that of the cowardly accused child-molester Julian Assange and the documents he’s released that will get good people killed*, here’s one for you. With its ruthless dictator, network of forced labour camps and iron grip of its ruling party, North Korea is the last country one [...]
The President Puzzled Me, But I Thank Him Anyhow.
I wonder who was more surprised when the President decided, completely out of the blue, to call out the tyrannical beasts in Havana, the Castro brothers or the people screaming themselves hoarse over the murderous tyranny just 90 miles from us. I have to imagine that the Castro brothers had to have been taken aback, [...]
China to Google: Get Bent! We’ll Censor Whatever We Want.
Two weeks ago, Google discovered what every other sentient being not blinded by the patchouli fumes of rampant hippiedom already knew: China is run by a bunch of murderous tyrants who aren’t nearly as interested in opening up their country as they are in keeping a couple of billion people under their decrepit thumbs. After [...]
This Couldn’t Have Happened to a More Deserving Bunch of Evil Tyrants
Slowly, the cracks in Tehran’s tyrannical government widen. A veteran Iranian diplomat based in Norway has resigned his post, denounced his government and urged colleagues around the world to do the same after the regime’s brutal suppression of huge opposition demonstrations last month. Mohammed-Reza Heydari, Iran’s consul in Oslo, is the first Iranian diplomat to [...]
The President’s Victory in Honduras Seems Assured
William Jacobson, who recently became the second Million Hit Blogger, has quite a good post on Honduras. The de jure government of that country is getting pressure from its business community, which is being pinched hard by the sanctions our government has put into place. President Obama may not want victory over Mad Mahmoud in [...]
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