How ironic that the same day I interviewed White House correspondent Helen Thomas I received the latest sorry data in my inbox about the decline of freedom in the world. The Freedom House report, Freedom in the World 2007 identified a "growing 'pushback' against organizations, movements, and media that monitor human rights or advocate for the expansion of democratic freedoms."
Pro-democracy efforts were most stymied in the former Soviet Union region, but "governments in Asia, Africa, the Middle East,...
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