Alexander Solzhenitsyn

                   

Jan McGirk: The Abominable Snow job Of "The Obama Nation"

huffingtonpost.com     17 hrs ago   1 related          

The anti-Obama rhetoric of the first stages of the McCain-Obama race has been laced with falsehoods, unfair innuendos, and sneaky appeals to religious fundamentalists. True, the Obama campaign put out its "Not Fit For...                    

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A Multifaceted Party

russiaprofile.org     19 hrs ago          

One of the surprising reactions that followed Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s death has been that of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. While liberal figures predictably praised Solzhenitsyn and lamented his death and the...                    

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The Breaking Point: A New Age of Torture

worldproutassembly.org     16 hrs ago   1 related          

The recent appearance of Dr Aafia Siddiqi in a New York court (August 5, 2008) has brought another disturbing episode in the 'war on terror' of President George W. Bush to light. According to a lawyer acting for Dr Siddiqui, an...                    

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McCain campaign blogger retracts Dungeons & Dragons crack [Politics]

valleywag.com     17 hrs ago   9 related          

Michael Goldfarb, one of the propagandists working for John McCain's presidential campaign, has discovered an unknown third rail of politics: Dungeons & Dragons. Attacking critics who suggested McCain plagiarized a touching...                    

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Diplomatic Rubble

usc.edu     16 hrs ago   389 related          

DIPLOMATIC RUBBLE by Eric Walberg The People's Voice http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/08/19/diplomatic_rubble Aug 19 2008 TN Russia's firm response to the Georgian gamble in Ossetia is being...                    

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Request

fayobserver.com     22 hrs ago          

I am working on getting ready to write a remembrance about and, mostly, a tribute to, the great Russian writer named in my title, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970 (but was not allowed to travel to Stockholm to...                    

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Deservations

two--four.net     23 hrs ago          

I suppose someone could count how many times I've cited Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn over the years, but I wouldn't bother. Here is an example in Usenet from twelve years ago. Take a good long look at that and see if you can tell the...                    

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Solzhenitsyn and western opportunism

hindu.com     15 hrs ago          

After Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard University lecture, the West realised the folly of talking up a man who was as uncompromising in his hostility to leading western assumptions as he was in fighting Stalinism. The argument that the...                    

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Speaking truth to power, August 9th

economist.co.uk     22 hrs ago          

SIR - Although I very much appreciated your leader on the demise of the intellectual, which focused on Alexander Solzhenitsyn, I am concerned about your glaring blind spots. Mind you, I will not complain here that Solzhenitsyn...                    

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John McCain accused of plagiarising Wikipedia for speeches

buzzflash.net     13 hrs ago          

The veracity of a story often told by the Republican presidential candidate about a communist North Vietnamese prison guard drawing a cross in the sand was queried after he repeated the story during a widely televised forum on...                    

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