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• Winter in Madrid: a spy novel

  
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  While I have posted the core of this review on Good Reads, I’m expanding it a bit here, because it gave me a lot to think about. It is a spy novel, but not the usual spy novel. There was a glut of spy novels during the Cold War, from about 1960-1990, so that one almost came to think of the genre as belonging ...
  5 days ago

• The Road to Serfdom. Your labor is the governments to control

  
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  EDITORIAL: Avenging the raisins The Supreme Court strikes a blow for a free market Since the grim days of the  Great  Depression, raisin farmers in California’s fabled San Joaquin Valley have raised their grapes under a food-regulatory regime that forces them to hand over a portion of their crop to ...
  6 days ago

• Rumors of democracy’s death exaggerated: democratic proposition still robust

  
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  The terrorist attacks of 9/11 ended the illusions that followed the collapse of Soviet communism, says Oxford University’s John Lloyd: History may have paused, but it had reignited with a vengeance. Clearly, there were other powerful forces in the world …
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• Asia’s civil society – more vocal than influential?

  
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  A recent “flash mob” of over 1,000 youths in central Hanoi’s Ly Thai To park (above) to raise awareness about gay and lesbian rights prompted similar protests in Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, and Can Tho in the Mekong …
  1 week ago

• DVLA: one example of what demerging means

  
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  Just like the diligent, exhaustive research done by ICAS on pensions, each of the topics identified in the recent article, New major financial issue, supposing Scotland voted Yes to independence , deserves equivalent quasi-academic scrutiny and analysis. Here are some quick thoughts for starters on one of these ...
  1 week ago

• What to call Americas new Stasi?

  
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  IRS Buying Spying Equipment: Covert Cameras in Coffee Trays, Plants (CNSNews.com)  – The IRS, currently in the midst of scandals involving the targeting of conservative groups and lavish taxpayer-funded conferences, is ordering surveillance equipment that includes hidden cameras in coffee trays, plants and ...
  1 week ago

• Liu Xiaobo’s brother-in-law sentenced: a ‘slap in the face’ for US or China sending ‘mixed signals’ on rights?

  
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    A Chinese court sentenced the brother-in-law of imprisoned Nobel laureate  to 11 years in prison Sunday just hours after President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama’s  informal summit in California . On June 8, a court in suburban Beijing sentenced …
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• ‘Authoritarian Black Market’ a growth industry

  
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  Authoritarian regimes around the world are banding together to bypass international institutions and human rights norms that conflict with their abusive practices, writes analyst Andrew Rizzardi. Unlike the alliances of the Cold War era, these partnerships have few ideological underpinnings …
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• Vietnam’s ‘Angry Feet’ – rights abuses in the spotlight

  
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    The recent prosecution of two Vietnamese students for criticizing China has “publicly exposed the government’s shady collusion with foreign aggressors,” writes a prominent observer. “ Vietnam ’s greatest tragedy is that the illusion of a common socialist ideology has …
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• ‘Karl Rove and Henry Kissinger rolled into one’ – Xi Jinping’s authoritarian-nationalist eminence grise

  
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    When  Xi Jinping  meets President  Barack Obama  meet for their summit in California on Friday, he will likely be accompanied by “a bookish, bespectacled figure” whose innocuous appearance betrays his influence as “a godfather of China’s neoconservatives, who have …
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• Thousands commemorate Tiananmen as China tightens censorship

  
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  “Tens of thousands of people held a candlelit vigil in a rain-soaked Hong Kong park on Tuesday to urge China to respect human rights on the 24th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square,” Reuters …
  2 weeks ago

• China’s state capitalism a political-ideological threat to democracy, say analysts

  
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  The growing economic power and global presence of China’s “rapacious state capitalism” is posing a political and ideological threat to liberal democracy, say two prominent analysts. “By buying companies, exploiting natural resources, building infrastructure and giving loans all over the …
  2 weeks ago

• Obama said he would reward his friends and punish his enemies. Does this sound like an American President?

  
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  IRS may have targeted conservatives more broadly By David Lightman and Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON  A group of anti-abortion activists in Iowa had to promise the Internal Revenue Service it wouldn’t picket in front of Planned Parenthood. Catherine Engelbrecht’s family ...
  2 weeks ago

• Russia warns Obama about Syngenta and Monsanto on “bee apocalypse”. Syngenta puts out response.

  
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  http://topinfopost.com/2013/05/28/russia-warns-obama-monsanto “The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants ...
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• Vietnam refuses nuclear bomb

  
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  VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has taken a consistent policy: denying the possibility of creating and preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons – in the world. The scene outside the nuclear reactor in Da Lat. International commitments Regarding of weapons of mass destruction, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• RUSSIA warns Obama: Monsanto/Bee DOOM

  
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  “The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee ...
  3 weeks ago

• Russia Warns Obama: Monsanto

  
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  The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee apocalypse” ...
  3 weeks ago

• Communists are the enemy of freedom...is Eric Holder watching?

  
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  Vietnam arrests popular blogger A prominent Vietnamese blogger has been arrested for posting articles critical of the communist government, reports said Monday, in the latest crackdown on dissent in the authoritarian country. This file photo shows Vietnamese police standing guard outside a courthouse in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Exercising Monetary Policy through the thorny flower of Propaganda

  
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  Since Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before Congress’s Joint Economic Committee Wednesday morning, commenting on the economic outlook and responding to questions from lawmakers on the likely path of monetary policy — several things have happened. The most obvious one is that the  financial ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sacred Right Defiled – repressing Uyghur religious freedom

  
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  Religious freedom continued to decline in China this year, according to the State Department’s 2012 Religious Freedom Report . The government “respect for religious freedom declined during the year, particularly in Tibetan areas and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Republic,” said …
  3 weeks ago

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