patriotism

In February 1972, Dr Vitaly A. Rubin, a Senior Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at Moscow’s Institute of Oriental Studies, applied for an exit visa to emigrate to Israel. Rubin was Jewish, educated in the orthodox tradition of his people. Following his visa application, he was pressured into resigning his position at the Institute, his [...]

JR: Hermit the Taoist Dragonfly is the authoritative expert on issues like Buddhism, Falun Gong, India, imperialism, the righteousness of the Chinese Communist Party, science, Taiwan, Taoism, Tibet, and the calamitous way Western media steer otherwise happy, nice and peaceful people into terrorist madness. Thank you very much for bestowing this opportunity for an interview [...]

About Barack Obama
I’ve been passionately interested since early in the primaries. I started writing about Senator Obama and supporting him, I guess, quite early. Partly because he is such an intelligent and cool cucumber. I thought the way he responded early on to the Pastor Wright affair was quite extraordinary. Normally what happens with politicians these [...]