BANGKOK, Thailand -- Vietnam erased online news by the British
Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) and other media about protesters toppling a
Vladimir Lenin statue in Ukraine, because it "struck a nerve" among
Vietnam's communist regime amid...
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11 December 2013
BANGKOK, Thailand -- In the biggest anti-government street protest in
years, tens of thousands of people crippled Bangkok on Monday (Nov.
25), storming and occupying the Finance Ministry and swarming around
military, police and other...
11 December 2013
December 10th was Human Rights Day. This day is an opportunity for all of us to reflect on the importance of human rights in our increasingly interconnected world. Human Rights are basic freedoms to which all humans are entitled: the right...
11 December 2013
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Violence worsened on Monday (Dec. 2) between
anti-government mobs using a hijacked bulldozer, fire engine, garbage
truck and homemade explosives to attack police who responded for the
first time with rubber bullets...
06 December 2013
Nelson Mandela's story, if told as a novel, would not be deemed possible in real life. Worse, we don't tell such stories in many of our novels.
A violent young rebel is imprisoned for decades but turns that imprisonment into...
A violent young rebel is imprisoned for decades but turns that imprisonment into...
05 December 2013
Every new revelation about the global reach of the National Security Agency underscores that the extremism of the surveillance state has reached gargantuan proportions. The Washington Post just reported that the NSA “is gathering nearly 5...