Hold Fast

Glenn Hurowitz, author of Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party, has a forceful op-ed in Politico today on Tibet, China, and the imperative for the US to “bring China to its knees” a la Congressman Charlie Wilson’s work to stop the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Hurowitz challenges Tibetans to take a stronger stance than […]

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Hollywood star Jackie Chan:
Chan insists anyone trying to protest on his watch can expect short shrift, warning: ‘Demonstrators better not get anywhere near me.’
And the 54-year-old, speaking at the launch of latest movie Forbidden Kingdom, claimed many of the protestors are simply publicity seekers.
‘They are doing it for no reason. They just want to show […]

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Jim Himes had a phenomenal fund raising quarter in the CT-04, my home district. He’s campaigning to defeat Chris Shays, the last Republican in Congress from New England. According to My Left Nutmeg, Himes has over $1 million cash on hand and is poised to be the best funded challenger Shays has faced yet. Himes […]

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President Bush knew of and approved of high level meetings in which White House officials like Rice, Powell, Cheney, Tenet, and Rumsfeld signed off on American torture policies. This strikes against the heart of who we are as a nation.
The ACLU and John Amato of Crooks & Liars are calling for a special counsel to […]

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Business Week has followed up their previous story on cyber attacks from China on US military and intelligence agencies and defense contractors with another detailed piece on how similar attacks from China are being directed at Students for a Free Tibet and other Tibet support groups. The piece discusses a specific, targeted attack disguised as […]

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The New York Times has a good article on how effective the Tibetan independence movement, lead by Students for a Free Tibet, has been at creating the sort of public relations narrative that has drawn global interest and support for Tibet in recent months. The ironic thing in this is that the Beijing Olympics were […]

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Matthew Forney has a very interesting op-ed in today’s New York Times about the loyalty Chinese youth show towards the Chinese government and how unlikely it is to find seeds of dissent in the educated elites in China. Though Forney doesn’t go into it, the same loyalty seen inside China is likely even heightened amongst […]

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I’ve avoided writing about the Democratic presidential primary for the better part of the last month. Staying out of daily pie fights has been good for my health.
I’m going to break that streak in reference to Barack Obama’s alleged insult of working class Americans in describing how they have been repeatedly disappointed by the political […]

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PBS’s Frontline had a feature on Students for a Free Tibet a couple days ago which I’m just finding now. It’s a great piece, with both video and text at the following link. The intro by Alison Satake really captures the essence of SFT and the Tibetan independence movement today.
It’s the night before the […]

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Japan has now joined Australia and refused to allow the Chinese People’s Armed Police guard the Olympic torch while it is in Japan.
“We should not violate the principle that the Japanese police will firmly maintain security,” Kyodo news agency quoted Shinya Izumi, head of the National Public Safety Commission, as saying.
“We do not know what […]

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