Hold Fast

For those of you who found the recent BBC and Washington Post articles about Chinese cyber attacks on Tibetan support groups interesting, I recommend this post by Allan Benamer of the Non-Profit Tech Blog. It’s a somewhat more technical look at what these attacks consist of, how they’ve been designed to allude detection, and what […]

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Wang Lixiong, a Chinese writer who recently helped author the twelve suggestions open letter to Beijing signed by 30 Chinese intellectuals and dissidents, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today.

I am a supporter of the Dalai Lama’s “middle way,” meaning autonomy for Tibet in all matters except foreign affairs and national defense. This […]

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China continues its practice of using dog and pony shows guided tours to substitute for real access to Tibet. This time, instead of journalists, the Chinese are bringing a group of foreign diplomats to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The US, UK, and France will have representatives in the tour, though the US doesn’t think […]

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The Globe and Mail reports that the Canadian government has levied the harshest criticism of China’s human rights abuses and violent crackdown in Tibet thus far:
The Canadian government yesterday called China’s recent repression of the protest movement in Tibet a “military crackdown” and took the Dalai Lama’s side in some of the strongest criticism any […]

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Via TRex, my guy Chris Dodd is speaking out with an eye towards resolving the Democratic nominating process.

Look, we’ve got five more months to go before the Democratic convention at the end of August and, candidly, we cannot go five more months with the kind of daily sniping that’s going on and have a candidate […]

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Look, I know there’s a lot of angst now that the press doesn’t ever connect what John McCain says with their representations of what he believes or wants to do as President. But just wait, it’s only a matter of months before we learn from the press that no one wants to see the war […]

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John Dolan of Alternet has an important article on how Democrats need to get tough when it comes to language and standing up to Republicans. I think Dolan over-emphasizes the need for Democrats to get touch, linguistically and otherwise, as a means of winning over “South Park Republicans” and young, white, male voters. Perhaps tougher […]

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I don’t know who Barack Obama would pick for his vice president. I would hope that it’s not Michael Bloomberg, but my guess is today’s press slathering from the Beltway Blogs is groundless.
I hope that Obama makes his decision by what we can call The Spitzer Principle, which is, knowing that the Republicans will seek […]

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Robert Thurman, preeminent Tibet scholar and father of Uma, has a piece at WashingtonPost.com titled, “China Needs the Dalai Lama.” It’s a powerful article and this passage stood out to me as best capturing the moment that has been created for there to be resolution to the Tibet question resulting in freedom for Tibetans.
The promise […]

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says he won’t go to the Beijing Olympics’ opening ceremony because of China’s violent crackdown in Tibet. The BBC piece also says that “French President Nicolas Sarkozy has not ruled out a boycott of the opening ceremony.”

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