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“God and Man in China”: Death and transfiguration in Lhasa

comment by Jerry Gordon
China under the Communists has been endeavoring to suppress the religious beliefs of its citizens, often using brutal force and repression under the guise of agitprop. The translation of this picture of a banner in Lhasa, the capital of occupied Tibet is evidence of Orwellian “newspeak”: “Enhancing Public Safety Management, Safeguarding […]

March 18th, 2008 at 9:26 • opinionWall Street JournalBret StephensGlobal ViewTibetan rebellionChinese Communist supressionDalai Lamasupression of religion in China 0 Comments

An Inordinate Fear of Terrorism?

comment by Jerry Gordon
Bret Stephens in today’s Wall Street Journal has exposed the ‘pop psychology’ explanations of Islamist terrorism by former CIA forensic psychiatrist and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute of the University, Marc Sagerman. We had commented on Sagerman in a November posting on a New York Times Magazine article […]

March 4th, 2008 at 11:32 • opinionSTEPHEN COUGHLINWall Street JournalMarc SagermanBret StephensLeaderless JihadGlobal View 0 Comments