My friend Josh Schrei wrote what I think is a critically important and relevant open letter to President Obama in response to his trip to China. Josh is a full time marketing director and a part time writer, activist, critical thinker, and student of Indo-Tibetan history and philosophy. His work...

My friend Josh Schrei wrote a stinging response to a post by Christopher Hitchens writing on Huffington Post. Josh is a full time marketing director and a part time writer, activist, critical thinker, and student of Indo-Tibetan history and philosophy. His work focuses on the dissection of all-too-common memes in...

I never met Senator Ted Kennedy, though my political life has often run close to him and his work.

Last year, when I was working in Alaska for Mark Begich's Senate campaign, there was a lot of talk about the Kennedy family and the state's history in presidential elections....

For as long as I've been blogging about Tibet and China, I've had problems with Nick Kristof. Any reader of my writing knows that I think New York Times columnist Nick Kristof is one of the most intellectually dishonest and profoundly unserious members of the American press who write with...

My friend F.X. Leach asked me to post on the deportation of American videoblogger "noneck". Fortunately Leach has already put up a comprehensive post that I'm reprinting in full with permission below. The original post appeared on Tibet Will Be Free.

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Today the 2008 Summer Olympics start in Beijing. The debate in the lead up to the Games has focused on whether or not this sporting event, representing the pinnacle of thousands of athletes' careers, is also a time to discuss politics. The host nation of China has the ignominious distinction...

On Friday the Beijing Olympics will begin, an event that Tibet activists -- and many others -- have simultaneously worked to prevent and leverage the greatest benefit out of for pretty much the entire 21st Century. As someone with deep ties to the Tibetan independence movement, I've worked along side...

This post is a response to new Huffington Post blogger Harold Parmington III's Western Activism Won't Help Tibet. I have spent eight years working in the Tibetan independence movement and have blogged extensively about what has been happening in Tibet since March 10th. That said, I would like...

We will likely know next week whether or not Glenn Greenwald's reporting on Democrats caving on FISA is substantively correct or not. He has said it comes from unimpeachable sources and while some in the House are denying it, it seems others are corroborating it.

The entire process on...

We will likely know next week whether or not Glenn Greenwald's reporting on Democrats caving on FISA is substantively correct or not. He has said it comes from unimpeachable sources and while some in the House are denying it, it seems others are corroborating it.

The entire process on...

There's been a lot of hay made on right wing blogs, talk radio, and ol' fashioned cable news today that the New York Times ran an unsourced smear job against John McCain. The goal of this kind of pushback is to discredit the Times reporting on a possible sex scandal,...

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I and other staffers at Students for a Free Tibet have spent the last couple of days working extensively to support the activists who staged an historic protest on Mount Everest against China's occupation of Tibet and the Beijing Olympic Games and help tell their story...

Mike from Blue Hampshire interviewed Senator Chris Dodd on Sunday and used his time to try to address what the senior senator from Connecticut thinks ending America's presence in Iraq really means.

Mike: There's some concern about the bases we've built in Iraq, and whether the candidates are...

Marc Ambinder of Hotline On Call addresses John Podhoretz's NY Post piece, wherein J-Pod gets antsy in his pantsy about Giuliani blowing his chances with conservative Republican voters by neglecting his leadership credentials. Ambinder writes:

Giuliani's judgment about national security matters is central to his identity as a...

As Arianna Huffington ably documents, the story of the first quarter Democratic presidential numbers is not one of dominance by Hillary Clinton, but the extremely strong showing by Barack Obama. Almost 30% of Clinton's reported money for the quarter was transfered from her Senate account, which means that it...

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WASHINGTON - Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected a request by Republican Congressman Christopher Shays (CT-04) to switch to the Democratic caucus and maintain his seniority. Shays, a pro-war Republican from a largely anti-war district,...

John McCain's new online petition calls the supplemental funding bill, which includes a deadline for redeploying American troops from Iraq, "surrender." The petition includes a description of what McCain thinks is problematic legislation:

The supplemental appropriations bill that passed the Senate on March 27, calling for a date...

Adam Nagourney of the NY Times takes a long look at the Dan Riehl Vote (also known as the Bill Cutting Vote) in Iowa and how anti-immigrant sentiments are shaping the Republican primary. For those who have defended Republican discussions of immigration policy as being circumscribed to...

Last month I attended the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting. I saw every presidential candidate speak about their vision for America and what they would do if elected president, including Senator Hillary Clinton.

Clinton made two major statements about Iraq in her DNC speech.

First she said,...

After a big build-up of expectation that Senator Chuck Hagel would announce something about his intentions for 2008 today - presidential campaign, senatorial campaign, or retirement - Hagel punted his decision until later this year. As someone who does not understand why Hagel would run for president, I see...