Tag Archives: Human Rights

Damas de Blanco honoured in Brussels

Ladies in White or the Damas de Blanco, the courageous mothers and wives of Cuban political prisoners, were finally allowed to come to Brussels to pick up the Sakharov Prize they were awarded in 2005. Laura Inés Pollán Toledo (1948 … Continue reading

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Collision course of socialist and capitalist worlds

Some thoughts to take in consideration: * “The very fact that four-and-a-half years after the crash, under conditions where there has been no recovery in the real economy, the speculative frenzy is reaching new heights, not just in one or … Continue reading

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Daniel Guérin: Three Problems of the Revolution (1958)

Reblogged from Robert Graham's Anarchism Weblog: Daniel Guérin (1904-1988) was a French libertarian communist who helped spark renewed interest in anarchism in the 1960s, first through his book, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice (1965), and then through his anthology of … Continue reading

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Russian government has the power to shut down any sort of organisation they do not like

The Kremlin’s announcement last week that it was kicking USAID out of Russia is the latest step in a crackdown on foreign-funded civil society groups. It’s a trend that has intensified since Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in May, … Continue reading

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The Most Hated Family in America

In De Meest gehate familie in America – inleiding tot vervolg (2008, May 16 on Multiply) I looked already at Fred Waldron Phelps (° 1929) talking to Louis Sebastian Theroux (° 1970) for the BBC documentary about The Most Hated … Continue reading

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Faith related boycotts

Is it really possible that certain companies continually cater to left wing causes to the point that they punish charities that help the poor simply because they are religious based? Yes, for sure, that is still going on and also … Continue reading

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Palestine, Israel, God’s people and democracy

Avraham Burg, a former speaker of the Knesset, author of “The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise From Its Ashes” and the chairman of Molad, the Center for Renewal of Democracy,  wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times … Continue reading

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Exceptionalism and Restricting Laws

Practice freedom only in the States Eric Cantor seems to believe he could not practice his religion anywhere else in the world as freely as he can in the United States. And he is not on his own, many Americans … Continue reading

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Leaving the Old World to find better pastures

Reason to look for New Pastures The  country where many grew up and currently see is unrecognisable from the times when we were a child. For many it is also nothing like any more of what they hear from their … Continue reading

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The trigger of Aurora shooting

Early Violence and reason to talk In history we come up against many violent acts since Cain killed his own brother Abel out of jealousy. The mind not accepting the other having something or not having something made human people … Continue reading

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