There are echoes of history in all this. Echoes that remind us in one way or the other of Berlin. China’s Olympic extravaganza — and its suppression of dissent — inevitably remind us of Adolf Hitler’s Berlin Olympics in 1936. Russia’s torrent of lies — its claims that democratic Georgia has been engaged in ethnic [...]
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Echoes of Berlin
Posted by Matt in August 16th, 2008 | 1 comment
Published in China, History, Adolf Hitler, Atrocities, Berlin 1936, Berlin History, Berlin Olympics, Ceasefire, Czechoslovakia, Dissent, Echoes, Extravaganza, Olympic, Olympics, Olympics 1936, Poland, Russia, Russian Citizens, Sudeten Germans, Suppression, tanks, Torrent
Battling Cold War Cliches
Posted by Matt in July 14th, 2008 | no comment
Published in New Cold War, Russia, West, Civil Freedoms, Cliches, Cold-War, Displeasure, Dissatisfaction, Europe Express, Foreign Policy, Hysterics, kremlin, Military Bases, Military Superiority, Missiles, NATO, Policy Model, Russia Moscow, Suppression, Ukraine, United States, Western Europe, Western Politics
In recent years, Moscow started to think that it could most easily express its dissatisfaction with Western politics by resorting to old Cold war cliches. The Kremlin does not like that Ukraine and Georgia want to join NATO, therefore it claimed that Western military bases will inevitably be built in those countries and that they [...]
China’s powerful weakness
Posted by Matt in April 29th, 2008 | no comment
Published in China, Abuses, beijing, Centralized State, Chinese Citizens, Chinese State, Communist Dictatorship, Compensation Workers, Falun Gong, Fiasco, Human Rights Abuses, Human Rights In China, Illegal Dumping, Olympic Torch Relay, Peasants, Pollutants, Regard, Religious Movement, Suppression, Sweatshop Conditions, Tibet, Today Many People, Weakness
The fiasco of the Olympic torch relay has focused attention on human rights in China. What is the source of human rights abuses in that country today?
Many people assume the problem is that China remains a communist dictatorship and that abuses occur because a strong, centralized state ignores the rights of its citizens. With regard [...]
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