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Finally, a protest I can support!

From the July 11 Washington Examiner: Protestors chanting “Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Cronyism has got to go!” marched during the lunch hour today in front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. The marchers were protesting the appearance of General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt in the chamber’s day-long conference on job creation, Jobs [...]

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A Plea for Understanding

A Plea for Understanding

As Lori just pointed out, there are certainly enough reasons to unleash righteous anger at the mainstream media and their blatantly obvious attempts to either downplay, ignore, or insult those…

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Tibet burning

Violence continues in Tibet as Chinese security forces move to crush protests. At least ten people have been killed so far, reports Audra Ang for the Associated Press: Soldiers on…

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Code Pink: down, but still out of their minds

As Eli Lake noted in The New York Sun, the entire “anti-war” movement, including Code Pink, has effectively abandoned any idea of forcing troop withdrawals from Iraq any time soon….

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Burma: the beat-down goes on

Despite the attempt by the ruling military regime to cut off communications with the outside world, some news continues to trickle out of the South Asian nation, as posted here…

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It's hitting the fan in Burma ("Myanmar")

This ends one of two ways: either the regime is ruthless enough, as they were in 1988, to quell the movement, or the people are sufficiently incensed by the treatment of the monks and their own long wait for democracy to shut down the country, toppling the junta.

To the Chinese, without whose support the generals would have fallen long ago: "Thanks for nothing, you commie bastards."

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Burma crisis brewing: troops surround Buddhist monasteries

Even as President Bush called for new sanctions against the Myanmar (Burma) government, the military junta has declared curfews and surrounded several monasteries with security forces, raising fears of a…

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30,000 march for democracy in Myanmar (Burma)

Two days after 2000 Buddhist monks were allowed to gather and pray outside the home of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, under virtual house arrest for nineteen years (since…

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East Coast rocks antiwar protest

If our last report on protests in DC left you thinking that East Coast antiwar protesters are just a bunch of lame old ladies and dying hippies, look again. You…

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What if they gave a war protest and nobody came?

Despite the call to protest the congressional testimony of General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, not many showed up today, as Mark Hemingway reports for NRO: Indymedia may be a clearinghouse…

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MacArthur Park meltdown

The LAPD went all Rodney King on pro-immigration demonstrators in MacArthur Park, prompting recriminations and regrets. As our friend "Bama Jim" Dunn of Do What Now? notes: The LAPD chief…

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French Weekly Angers Muslims With New Cartoons

French Weekly Angers Muslims With New Cartoons

A French weekly has further stoked the "cartoon violence" debate. French weekly Charlie Hebdo devotes the majority of it's 16 pages to the Danish cartoons and adds several new…

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