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What Gives With North Korea?
North Korea is the most isolated industrialized nation on earth. Nothing gets in or out unless it goes through the government, with one notable exception. The sons of the late…
Aung Sun Suu Kyi In Europe
Since returning to Myanmar in 1988 to care for her mother, Dr. Aung Sun Suu Kyi has not left the confines of that country. For fifteen years, she was under…
You Can’t Stop The Signal – Far Eastern Edition
For sixty-four years, the Kim dynasty in North Korea has controlled the information seen and heard by the North Korean people. They scrambled radio and television signals from anywhere. They…
Chen Update
According to sources in the American Embassy in Beijing, a deal is being crafted whereby dissident Chen Guangcheng would be granted an expedited student visa and with his wife Yuan…
How Chen Guangcheng Is Being Abused By America’s Right Wing
Mitt Romney took his cues from Fox News and right wing media and put his two-cents into the ginned-up controversy over the botched “defection” of Chinese blind dissident Chen Guangcheng.…
U. N. Asks For $2 Billion To Repatriate Afghans
Last night, on Greta van Susteren’s Fox News show, Brit Hume said that Afghanistan is what was left over after all the other central Asian nations were formed. He needs…
Palawan Turtles Headed Home
It seems that Palawan Island in the Philippines is in the news this week. Two days ago it was their tiny gem-hued freshwater crabs; today it’s the return of…
New Afghan Defense Agreement Reached
No one is going to take this news as good. The Republicans will howl that it isn’t enough, as Mitt Romney calls for a greater presence in Afghanistan for years…
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