Inside a Dictator’s Secret Police, from Foreign Policy magazine

Reed Brody, a lawyer for Human Rights Watch, talks about the forthcoming trial of Hissène Habré, the tyrant of Chad:

Inside a Dictator’s Secret Police, from Foreign Policy magazine.

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March 16, 2010 – 2:03 am | By TWJohnston | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Tensions in the Middle East alive and well

Hamas has announce a “day of rage” in Jerusalem.  It’s been about 5,000 years of rage by anyone’s account.
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March 16, 2010 – 1:50 am | By TWJohnston | Posted in Decline of Society, Human Condition, Middle East | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Communist Dictatorships: suffocating and cruel

Thanks to Marc Vander Maas for pointing us to Michael Totten’s new book on Romania. Communist Dictatorships: suffocating and cruel. The scars of Ceausescu indeed.
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PEP Chapter 1 – the classic book by William C. Hunter

I have just posted Chapter 1 of PEP, Poise, Efficiency, and peace, the classic book by William C. Hunter.  Find it here:
PEP, by William Crosby Hunter
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Chinese Democracy from Atlantic Magazine

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March 14, 2010 – 5:17 pm | By TWJohnston | Posted in Human Condition | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Bookshelf, a cartoon from Atlantic Magazine

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March 14, 2010 – 5:06 pm | By TWJohnston | Posted in Decline of Society, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The basic truth

Human beings, as a race, do not like each other very much.
Specifically, people are suspicious of those who are not like themselves.  Humans have always been like this.  It’s blacks vs whites, men oppressing the women, civilized society overrunning a country’s native population, Sunnis going at the Shiites, rich dominating the poor, adults misusing children, …

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March 13, 2010 – 7:36 pm | By TWJohnston | Posted in Human Condition | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)