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70A Dangerous Language?
Can a language be dangerous? Some think it can. We see some of them just now, in North America among the most rabiate Obama-haters; those who are so far out at the extreme right-wing that they think George Soros is a leftist (which he...
2 comments51A Forgotten Human Right
It is written in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml : Article 13. (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and...
1 comment51With Friends Like Bernard-Henri Lévy, Obama Won't Need Enemies
I think Mr. Obama has two great problems. His enemies is one, those who regard him as the devil himself and accuse him for being a Nazi, a Fascist and a Communist (funny combination), and even as someone...
3 comments65WikiLeaks Quo Vadis?
WikiLeaks has just been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. It is true that, as an organization and a collective, they are doing a good and valuable job. Let's hope, however, that the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee - and WikiLleaks themselves -...
0 comments55Only Polish Spoken
Last summer (2009), I participated in the Universal Congress of Esperanto in Bialystok, Poland. Now I read a short article about a strange incident at the web site of the Polish radio, at ...
0 comments46A Low Year for the Peace Prize
In Alfred Nobel's will, about his five prizes, it is said about the Peace Prize that it shall be given "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the...
2 comments60War is Peace, Mr. President?
"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength." These are the three slogans of Ingsoc in George Orwell's novel "1984". President Obama, who has caught the opportunity when receiving the Nobel...
7 comments49More About Religious Policy in Vietnam
In an earlier hub - http://hubpages.com/hub/Progressive-Buddhists-in-Trouble - I wrote about the current problems for the disciples in Vietnam of the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, who some decades ago...
0 comments46Nobel Peace Prize to Esperanto Organization?
The Universal Esperanto Association (UEA) has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by eight British parlamentarians (four labour, two tories, two liberal democrats) - see http://tinyurl.com/ydbovps ! ...
2 comments53Progressive Buddhists in Trouble with "Progressive" Government
In 1968 - "the crazy year", including some previous and later years as well - I was a university student in Uppsala, Sweden. This was the time of the Vietnam war in South East Asia. It was also the time of a strong leftist movement among Western...
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