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Is the Castro-friendly Cuba policy working?

So asks The Washington Post: IN THE PAST few months, proponents of lifting U.S. and international sanctions against Cuba have...

More Hugo "Not-A-Dictator" Chavez News

"I'd rather live under Chavez than Bush", Cindy Sheehan once famously quipped. Currently, Chavez seems intent on arresting people who...

More on Putin and Georgia

The Wall Street Journal carries Saakashvili's testimony that the Russia was amassing at their border well before the invasion: "I...

Media Silence Regarding Gori

Rick Moran: "Stories of Russian Atrocities in Georgia Mount: Where's the US Media?" Dude, you so don't understand. These atrocities...

Two on China and Subsidies

First, refreshing candor from President Clinton's trade negotiator: It is rare when a government official actually blames himself for his...

Bob's Chinese Sponsors

Robert Mugabe is a thug. He has destroyed his country's agricultural base, bringing the population to the brink of starvation,...

Chavez and FARC

Hugo "Not-A-Dictator" Chavez has been keeping (and lavishly funding) some fairly tawdry company as of late. First reports of the...

Dr. Evil's Economics

From Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery: Dr. Evil: Here's the plan. We get the warhead, and we hold the...

Fidel Castro's Cuba: 100% Literacy!

A little something to honor and celebrate Cuba's Revolution, and its greatest achievements, on the occasion of Fidel Castro stepping...

Face Time

Michael Totten: RULES OF JOURNALISM: CNN tells its reporters how to write about Fidel Castro. “Please note Fidel did bring...

Chavez: Protecting Venezuelans from Food

Today: Venezuela's top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of food from its trucks...

Everybody Dance Now!

What is it about despots, that they so often fancy themselves as great artists and thinkers? Nero reputedly "craved attention"...

Russian Facist Youth Movement?

If true, this seems rather chilling -- the crowd in the photo seems worryingly large. Remember the mammoths, say the...

Putin Sponsors North Pole Coup, Santa Hangs On

Russia voiced pride and defiance on Friday after a landmark expedition to the North Pole seabed that prompted a...

News Roundup: Blowing Up Mary

At Volokh: When the Taliban demolished statues of the Buddha, many people all over the world, including many non-Buddhists, denounced...

China's "Death Buses" Hit the News

Murdoch's Sky News does an excellent expose. "They beat me for days." China's penal system is surrounded by a wall...

China's "Mobile Execution Chambers"

These save, I imagine, the nuisance involved in restraining and transporting the prisoner, alive, to a place where they might...

Why Boycott Cuba or China?

Recently, a friend of mine said he didn't agree with politically or economically isolating despotic regimes. This is my answer as to why I agree with economic sanctions and boycotts...

Who is worse: US or China? Australia: The U.S.!

Who is a greater threat to the world today, the US or China? Apparently in Australia, the answer is the...

Clinton, Christians, and MFN Status

On December 15, 1991, William Jefferson Clinton promised that, if elected, he would "absolutely" deny China the coveted "Most Favored Nation" status...

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