The Year Begins.
It’s incredible to me that we can watch this video on youtube, during the conflict in the Gaza Strip, while the cameras and crew are actually in the war zone. Al Jazeera English is priceless. Ghost...
View ArticleRussian Human Rights Lawyer Assassinated
Ever since I read Leo Tolstoy’s “Hadji Murat“, about a 19th century Chechen folk hero’s last stand against Russian imperial troops, I’ve had a weird interest in the Chechen cause. Isolated by...
View ArticleMoon Remembers the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Tiedeman in the New York Times, June, 1989 Twenty years ago this month, my mom witnessed a horrific massacre in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. No one really knows how many students and protesters...
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