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  • China's People's Daily Punks Obama

    http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90780/91343/6430967.html Selected quotes: ''So his rise has not done away with privileges for the white Americans but reinforces their privileges on the contrary.'' ''It seems that Obama is more able to meet a psychological demand of the general public for social change. Turbulent prospects, a face-off between ...
    Posted to Trailhead by duhwayne on June 17, 2008

  • Re: Liao Yiwu: A Poet/Writer. His Life In The Real China

    Thank you for posting this Artemesia. What this creative courageous soul has been thru is hard to comprehend. The atrocities he endured to finally get some sense of peace is unbelievably disturbing... I am deeply moved by the outcome of his experience. Just reading that he won the Freedom to Write Award was very moving, yet hard to imagine that ...
    Posted to Poems by Galatea on April 12, 2008

  • olympics Not the place to protest

    Like another commenter mentioned China is now more in a position to do better. This movement forward will be hindered by protesters who mean well, but in fact may be hindering the very progress forward they want to stimulate.
    Posted to Foreigners by MMahraj on March 28, 2008

  • Re: Weak logic...

    Amy, If you read it, the last thing it says before the list is ''politicization,'' so yes technically she is not including Munich as a ''successful protest'' as I summarized it. However what is politicization other than the outcome of protest? My point is unchanged. The murders of Munich were not political hay, they were an act of murder, ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Ygalbot on March 25, 2008

  • C. Hitchens < J. Carter

    Hitchens is right to decry China's backing of human rights abusers. The seduction of the Olympic boycott, however, is one that I hoped might escape him. Taking too much tea with Mia Farrow, no doubt.After those pesky Russkies invaded Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter gave them an ultimatum: Leave or we'll prevent our athletes from achieving their lives' ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by markdolley on October 1, 2007