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Castro regime has not released some political prisoners, recently detained others Daniel Wiser The Washington Free Beacon 1/5/2014 The status of 53 political prisoners in Cuba remains in limbo despite an agreement with the United States to release them, according to reports. President Barack Obama announced last month that he was easing travel and commercial […] January 5th, 2015 | Tags: Fidel Castro, Jen Psaki, political dissidents, political prisoners, Raul Castro, transparency | Category: Barack Obama, Communism, Cuba, Human Rights, State Department | Comments are closed
Ruling allows Beijing to still control nomination process for city’s top leader Daniel Wiser The Washington Free Beacon 8/31/2014 China’s legislature on Sunday denied fully democratic elections to Hong Kong in a move that could spark mass protests in the city’s streets. The National People’s Congress Standing Committee ruled that nominees for Hong Kong’s chief […] August 31st, 2014 | Tags: Hong Kong, political dissidents | Category: China, civil liberties, Communism, Elections, Politics | Comments are closed
Daniel Halper The Weekly Standard 3/1/2014 A White House official emailed some reporters to say that President Obama’s team met today to discuss the ongoing situation on Ukraine. It appears President Obama did not attend. “The President’s national security team met today to receive an update on the situation in Ukraine and discuss potential policy […] March 1st, 2014 | Tags: Central America, Crimea, political dissidents, Soviet Union, Susan Rice, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovich, Vladimir Putin | Category: Africa, Asia, Barack Obama, Cuba, Foreign Policy, History, Military, National Security, Russia, South America, Venezuela | Comments are closed
Everyone wants to bask in Obama’s sunshine, even the deceased. Opiate of the People The People’s Cube 12/10/2013
An international incident was touched off yesterday in Johannesburg, South Africa when a good-will appearance by President Obama was interrupted by an impromptu funeral. Mr. Obama was generously posing for souvenir pictures […] December 10th, 2013 | Tags: "selfies", “Rush Limbaugh Show”, Allan Gross, funerals, Gorki Águila, Guillermo Fariñas, Johannesburg, Jorge Luis Garcia Pérez (Antúnez), Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela, PM David Cameron, PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt, political dissidents, Raul Castro, satire, Sen. Ted Cruz, South Africa, The Ladies in White | Category: Africa, Barack Obama, Communism, Cuba, Glenn Beck, Humor, Michelle Obama, Politicians | Comments are closed
Matt Welch Reason Magazine 10/27/2013 Since Lou Reed’s influence was exponentially bigger, and his personality occasionally much smaller than, his music, it’s worth remembering why the late Velvet Underground singer/songwriter was deservedly famous in the first place. Jesse Walker posts some of the evidence below, to which I would add that the span of decades […] October 27th, 2013 | Tags: 1960s, Andy Warhol, Czech Republic, Gustáv Husák, John Cale, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, music, political dissidents, The Velvet Revolution, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Vaclav Havel | Category: History | Comments are closed
Ed Lasky American Thinker 3/10/2012 Guy Taylor of the Washington Times reports that Barack Obama’s Treasury Department is investigating former Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell over fees he received for speaking up on behalf of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) group. This is a group that is composed of opponents of the Iranian regime. This group’s supporters […] March 10th, 2012 | Tags: Foreign Terrorist Organization, Gov. Ed Rendell, Howard Dean, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), political dissidents, President Bill Clinton, Robert Mueller | Category: Barack Obama, FBI, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, National Intelligence, nuclear weapons, State Department, terrorism, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
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