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What Is Russia Afraid Of?

Posted by Matt in August 19th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Russia, West, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The spread of freedom and the West standing up to it.
The Russian state’s open hostility, not only toward Georgia but also toward Ukraine and the Baltic states, is, in this sense, partly ideological. Genuine elections have taken place in all these countries; people who have not been preselected by the ruling oligarchy sometimes gain wealth [...]

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Did Rare Metallic Ore Fuel African “PlayStation War”?

Posted by Matt in July 25th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Africa, War, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Blame it on a dull black substance called coltan, also known as columbite-tantalite, also occasionally dubbed “black gold.” Coltan has been a source material in the manufacture of cell phones, DVD players, computers, and you guessed it: game consoles. Earlier this month, Toward Freedom claimed the metallic ore had exacerbated a decade-old conflict in the [...]

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Russia-Venezuela axis uses energy as weapon

Posted by Matt in July 21st, 2008 | 2 comments 
Published in Energy, Russia, Venezuela, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A Russian-Venezuelan axis is a 21st-century throwback to the Cold war Soviet-Cuban alliance. Such a partnership bodes ill for energy security, for freedom in both nations, and for the Western Hemisphere.
Despite differences in culture, language, and geography, the rulers of Russia and Venezuela are increasingly rejecting civil society and narrowing political space in their respective [...]

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Fascism has come to Canada

Posted by Matt in June 12th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Americas, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The January 2008 article, “Civil rights war in Canada” (pp. 11-16), quoted from REAL Women’s magazine Reality (Mar/April 2007) in saying that “adoptions, social services such as nursing homes, religious-based schools, marriages, employment conduct, etc., carried out by religious organizations will be held to secular standards, not religious ones.” One reason for this development, it [...]

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The flame of democracy fading

Posted by Matt in April 11th, 2008 | 1 comment 
Published in China, Russia, , , , ,

But for the past few years democracy has been in global retreat. Notwithstanding a small occasional triumph here and there, in Latin America, Africa and in Eastern Europe, the tide has been turned.
The most significant defeat of all has been in China, where the success of limited capitalism has not been matched by political [...]

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Is freedom failing?

Posted by Matt in May 10th, 2007 | no comment 
Published in general, ,

That was then. But when Nigerians went to the polls again last month, democracy lost. In an orgy of ballot-box stuffing and violence, punctuated by an attempted truck bombing of the electoral-commission headquarters, the ruling party won what some observers thought was the most fraudulent election ever in Nigeria–which is saying something. Once again, Nigeria [...]

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