Hold Fast

Tenzin Dorjee, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, has a must-read piece in the Global Post on non-violent resistance in Tibet. It’s a great piece that outlines the efforts made over the last two years by Tibetans inside Tibet to peacefully resist China’s military occupation through both new techniques and methods that date [...]

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No nation has ever been home to a middle-class majority absent a sizable labor movement. In their failure to advance labor’s prospects, the Democrats condemn themselves to a future of fewer Democratic voters and their nation to a future of mass downward mobility. Harold Meyerson is right – it’s about damned time Democrats were responsive [...]

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So, is Ben Nelson going to jump ship to the Republican Party some time before January 2011? After all, his opposition to some of President Obama’s key legislative issues (health care reform and labor reform) is now being compounded by his opposition to President Obama’s nominees. Steve Benen writes of Nelson: In other words, a [...]

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I think Steve Clemons is right about how President Obama should respond to the critique by Edward Luce in the Financial Times of his tight inner circle of Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett and Robert Gibbs. Clemons recommends Obama take Luce’s piece seriously and evaluate how the White House decision making structure is failing, [...]

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It’s remarkable: one year ago, when the Obama administration started, Democrats had fifty-nine votes in the Senate (though two were in the hospital (Kennedy & Byrd) and one, Al Franken, would not be seated because of frivolous Republican lawsuits). At the time, we were at an historic moment where big ideas were not only necessary, [...]

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While I certainly think having a regular dialogue between President Obama and the opposition would be a good thing, I hope that if he’s going to give time to the GOP, he also gives time to Democrats, particularly progressive Democrats, for public questioning and debate. This can’t be just about engaging his conservative opponents. He [...]

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Apparently the Chinese government doesn’t know what it means to negotiate in good faith. A round of talks between the Tibetan Government in Exile and the Chinese government just concluded. It’s the first round of talks since 2008 and an important step for these two nations. However, it looks like the Chinese government is not [...]

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Hey look, another story about the Chinese government spying on foreign companies through the internet, hacking accounts, and dropping malware on people! This time the British intelligence agency MI5 warned a large range of British companies in 2008 about the threat of Chinese espionage and methods used by Chinese spies to entrap foreign executives. But [...]

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