Category Archives: Totalitarianism

Ron Radosh on Jennifer Delton: A Fresh View of Cold War America

Posted on April 24, 2010 by

This article by Ron Radosh is from Minding the Campus: Teaching in the universities about the so-called McCarthy era has become an area most susceptible to politically correct and one-sided views of what the period was all about. One historian … Continue reading →

Posted in (Anti and Post) Communism, Academia, Archives, History, and Historiography, Radicalism, Totalitarianism, U.S. Politics | 2 Comments

American Library Association (ALA) Candidates Speak on Cuban Library Issue

Posted on March 17, 2010 by

I received this press release from the Friends of Cuban Libraries: ALA Candidates Speak on Cuban Library Issue Sara Kelly Johns and Molly Raphael, candidates for ALA president, spoke on March 8 at the office of New York City’s METRO … Continue reading →

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Jailed Cuban Activist Orlando Zapata Tamayo Dies on Hunger Strike

Posted on February 23, 2010 by

[Photo taken in 2003 by Adalberto Roque for AFP] This extremely sad news comes from the Miami Herald: A jailed Cuban dissident on a hunger strike for 83 days died Tuesday, his mother reported, the first time in nearly 40 … Continue reading →

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Cuban Bloggers Attacked by State Security Agents and Pro-Government Mob

Posted on November 22, 2009 by

Last Friday, November 13, Cuban bloggers Yoani Sanchez and Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo were on their way to a march in downtown Havana when they were forced into an unmarked car by plainclothes police agents and beaten up. Juan O. … Continue reading →

Posted in (Counter)Terrorism, Blogroll, Cuba(n), Latin America, Totalitarianism | 1 Comment

Ahmadinejad Picks Terrorist for Defense Minister of Iran

Posted on August 22, 2009 by

Interpol revealed that Ahmad Vahidi, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad‘s pick for Defense Minister, is wanted by the agency for his role in the bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. The terrorist attack … Continue reading →

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Big Bill Clinton Still Has It

Posted on August 4, 2009 by

When former president Bill Clinton went overseas to convince North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il to release two American journalists I thought to myself, “good luck on that one, buddy.” Euna Lee and Laura Ling were facing twelve years in a … Continue reading →

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Polish Anti-Authoritaran Leszek Kolakowski Passes On

Posted on July 18, 2009 by

“Freedom is always vulnerable and its cause never safe”–Leszek Kolakowski Polish anti-authoritarian historian and theorist Leszek Kolakowski has passed away on Friday, June 17, at the age of 81. Kolakowski was Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at All Souls College, Oxford. … Continue reading →

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Social Research Journal: Letter in Support of Iranian Dissident Akbar Ganji

Posted on July 2, 2009 by

[If you want to add your name to this letter, please send an email to Social Research at socres@newschool.edu. Social Research website here.] ——————————————————————————– Dear friends of Social Research, Because you have joined us in protesting abuses of human rights … Continue reading →

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More Iran Links

Posted on June 27, 2009 by

Swiped from Bob and Mod: Contentious Centrist: Friends of the Ayatollahs Dissent: From Ramin Jahanbegloo, Michael Walzer and others Roland Dodds (But, I am a Liberal!): Neda Agha Soltan – Voice of Iran The Field: Regrouping Against Repression in Iran … Continue reading →

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Iran Election Demonstrations Roundup

Posted on June 19, 2009 by

Too busy with the newborn to write about events in Iran right now but here are some posts and links from around the Web: Ben Cohen at Z-Word But, I am a Liberal! Flesh is Grass Ganselmi (h/t to Mod … Continue reading →

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