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Original Technorati articles tagged “dissidents”

• in Technology
  Google’s Gmail—Under Attack In China (Again)
  Chinese government attacking Gmail. How will Google respond this time?
  by supportonthespot / on Mar 21, 2011
• in Politics
  Egypt: Fruit of the Poisonous Olive Tree
  Democracy is good for Egypt. It's bad for America, but that's our fault.
  by jimmyzuma / on Feb 3, 2011
• in TV
  After the Wall: A World United Premieres on PBS, January 17, 2011
  Even if you're old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin War, there are things you don't know.
  by missbobetier / on Jan 12, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “dissidents”

 

• Khamenei adviser enters Iran’s presidential contest – voters left to choose ‘the least worst of the bad’

  
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    “An adviser to Iran ‘s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei joined the presidential race on Friday, with powerful conservatives keen to make the June vote a peaceful contrast to the upheaval that followed the disputed 2009 poll,” Reuters reports …
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• Dissidence and Division

  
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  In her  Minding Russia  blog Catherine Fitzpatrick  discusses  the conflicted nature of the political opposition in Russia, and points out that it is indeed entirely natural: Long ago I said to myself — hey, it’s their country, they are going to do what they want and I’m not required here except to show ...
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• Dissidence and Division

  
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  In her Minding Russia blog Catherine Fitzpatrick discusses the conflicted nature of the political opposition in Russia, and points out that it is indeed entirely natural: Long ago I said to myself -- hey, its their country, they are going to do what they want and Im not required here except to show solidarity as ...
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• Democracy activists end hunger strike

  
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  Cuban authorities have released dissident Luis Enrique Lozada, prompting nearly 60 democracy activists to end hunger strikes they had started to protest his jailing. Lozada had been in custody at the Boniato prison in Santiago de Cuba. He went on a hunger strike on April 9 to denounce his jailing and what he described ...
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• Controlled by Guns

  
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  On January 20, 2000, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued a preliminary injunction against the distribution of DeCSS , an algorithm that descrambled DVDs in violation of the DMCA. In essence, Kaplan ruled that code that could be compiled and executed did not count as protected expression under the First Amendment. Computer ...
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• China’s cyber-attacks target USG – and dissidents

  
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  The Obama administration has for the first time explicitly blamed the Chinese military for launching cyber-attacks on the U.S government and various defense contractors. The cyber-attacks are a “ serious concern ” as U.S. computer systems “continued to be targeted …
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• Kerry must raise ‘existential threat to Russian civil society’ as opposition aims to revive anti-Putin protests

  
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      “Thousands of people turned out Monday for a protest here that was intended to draw attention to what organizers said was the return of political prosecutions in the Russian courts,” The New York Times’ Andrew E. Kramer reports …
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• Religious Freedom Around the World: the 2013 Report

  
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  The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s annual report is out (in PDF) .   Im just going to quote part of its assessment of China: The Chinese government continues to perpetrate particularly severe violations of the freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief. Religious groups and ...
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• Alexey Gaskarov

  
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  Today is a day of solidarity with Alexey Gaskarov, a Russian civic activist and member of the Opposition Coordinating Council. On April 28 2013 Alexey Gaskarov was arrested in Moscow. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has charged him with taking part in a riot and using violence against a ...
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• What? You’re still here? Episode 29.

  
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  I know. I KNOW. It’s been way too long. But when life is tough, some of the more enjoyable parts of it can fall away. But I’m back. And I promise to be back soon. Richard Dawson and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the adaptation of “The Running Man.” Read the book instead, willya? You’ll thank me. This time, ...
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• Lady In White Leader Berta Soler Endorses Embargo against Castros Cuba

  
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  Damas de Blanco leader Berta Soler Is an afro Cubana who describes the Castro regime as practitioners of state sponsored terrorism against its own people and forcefully endorses the so called embargo against Castros Cuba. Via Mary Anastasia OGrady In the Wall Street Journal. Hat tip Capitol Hill Cubans In the ...
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• Lawyer: Liu Xiaobo Reading, “Gaining Weight”

  
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  Didi Kirsten Tatlow of The New York Times catches up with Mo Shaoping, a Beijing lawyer who defended the brother of jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo ’s wife in court on Tuesday: Liu Xiaobo, the jailed Nobel Peace laureate serving an 11-year term for subversion after calling for an end to one-party rule and ...
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• Jon Stewart’s new ‘Daily Show’: Censorship and Power in Iran

  
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  Screening & Discussion Maziar Bahari , Journalist and Filmmaker Joel Simon , Committee to Protect Journalists in conversation with Jon Stewart, Political Satirist As Iran nears elections in June , the government has launched renewed assaults on the media with …
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• The Title which you read in the Yankee & European Imperialist press and what it really means

  
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  The title that you may actually see is something like this: Cuba’s Ladies in White finally pick EU rights price . Most likely, you will read it in the Miami Herald, another capitalist right-wing newspaper or you will probably find it in the EU, of course. For the really dumb or those with low intelligence, EU ...
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• Beatrice Mtetwa: fighting for rule of law in Zimbabwe

  
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    “The most damning part of a new documentary about Beatrice Mtetwa , a lawyer who’s spent decades fighting human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, comes from the mouth of President Robert Mugabe’s former minister of information,” writes The Washington Post’s …
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• With open dissent and repression on the rise, Vietnam’s one-party rule shaken

  
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  “His bookshelves are filled with the collected works of Marx, Engels and Ho Chi Minh, the hallmarks of a loyal career in the Communist Party, but Nguyen Phuoc Tuong, 77, says he is no longer a believer,” The New York …
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• 20 years since the Bishopsgate bombing

  
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  By John Horgan On 24 April 1993, the city of London was brought to a standstill. A massive terrorist bomb exploded at the NatWest tower, killing one person and injuring at least 40 more. The truck bomb, planted by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was designed to strike at the financial heartland of London, and it ...
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• Across the Pond - Putins Protestors

  
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  Now thats the kind of protest a dictator can appreciate. (Photo/Spiegel.de) Putin was in Germany; 3 women rushed the stage, Calling him a "Dictator" in voices filled with rage. Putin never heard them - something else had caught his eye. All 3 topless women got a "thumbs up" from the guy. Thats the kind ...
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• ‘China Dream’ needs clearer vision & substance

  
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  While Western commentators have lauded China’s model of authoritarian development – even advocating its transferability to other developing economies – President Xi Jinping isn’t so enthusiastic. “ China’s model of development is not sustainable ,” he said this month. But …
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• Putin pushes NGO law – Soldiers’ Mothers branded as ‘foreign agents’

  
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  “Until prosecutors all over Russia set to work unmasking “foreign agents,” 80-year-old Raisa’s biggest worry was whether her tiny pension would ever allow her to get the false teeth she covets. Raisa — last name Golubyatnikova — cheerfully admits she’s …
  4 weeks ago

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