The Wall Street Journal

Privileged children of the revolution

November 26, 2011

Today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal carries an excellent article on the privileged lives of the Chinese Communist Party’s offspring: The offspring of party leaders, often called “princelings,” are becoming more conspicuous, through both their expanding business interests and their evident appetite for luxury, at a time when public anger is rising over reports of official corruption [...]

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Escalation of repression

October 3, 2011

The Wall Street Journal‘s Mary A. O’Grady on the Cuban government’s increased repression against dissidents and Havana’s view of the United States’ recent loosening of policies as a sign of  weakness: The nongovernmental organization Capitol Hill Cubans has reported that in the first 12 days of September, authorities detained 168 peaceful activists. These “express detentions” are [...]

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Dictator’s handbook

September 24, 2011

The Wall Street Journal’s review of political scientists Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s new book The Dictator’s Handbook, which takes a look at how democrats and dictators preserve political authority: So how is it that undemocratic leaders—who exploit, imprison and brutalize their subjects—frequently maintain power for far longer periods than their democratic counterparts? [...]

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Goons vs. ladies

August 28, 2011

Mary Anastasia O’Grady in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal on the Cuban government’s attacks on peaceful women dissidents (Ladies in White): This is not without risk to the regime, should the international community decide to pay attention and apply pressure on the white-elite regime the way it did in opposition to apartheid in South Africa. But [...]

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Spooks’ world news database

March 7, 2011

The Wall Street Journal reports on an invaluable research database, World News Connection (WNC), which delivers the news online from 1,750 newspapers, broadcasts and blogs in 130 countries. WNC is an online offering from the CIA’s Open Source Center (OSC) (formerly the Foreign Broadcast Information Service – FBIS).

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Miscellanea

July 7, 2010

An El Salvadoran national detained in Caracas will be extradited “in the coming hours” to Cuba, where he is wanted for a string of terrorist bombings in the late 1990s. [Wall Street Journal] Some changes are in the works for Radio and TV Martí. [Radio World] Spanish FM: Spain hopes Cuba’s agreement with Roman Catholic [...]

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