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Andrei Sakharov

After 33 Years of Torture and Prison, A Life of Forgiveness

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 08.22.2011 | New York
Read More: Elena Bonner, Fire Under the Snow, Yelena Bonner, Tibet, Human Rights, Palden Gyatso, China, Elie Wiesel, Andrei Sakharov, Aung San Suu Kyi, Buddha, Nelson Mandela, Armando Valladares, Freedom, Torture, Laogai, Chinese Government, New York News
Thor Halvorssen

Buddhist monk Palden Gyatso endured 33 years of torture at the hands of the Chinese government in Tibet's most brutal prison. You are invited to hear his life story -- one of the greatest never told.

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Russian Rights Activist, Soviet Dissident Reportedly Dies

AP | Posted 08.18.2011 | World
Read More: Russia, Andrei Sakharov, Soviet Dissident, Yelena Bonner Dead, Andrei Sakharov Yelena Bonner, Yelena Bonner Dies, Sakharov Bonner, Yelena Bonner, World News

BOSTON — Yelena Bonner, a Russian rights activist and widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died, her daughter said early Sunda...

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Bradley Manning: Political Prisoner?

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Classified Information, Andrei Sakharov, Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, David Remnick, Elena Bonner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Politics News
Jonathan Weiler

Given the disclosures that appear in Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars, the administration's highly selective approach to leaking and the treatment of Bradley Manning leaves little doubt that Manning is a political prisoner.

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1989 And the Fall of the Wall: Did Reagan Do It?

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Czeslaw Milosz, Charter 77, 1989, Ronald Reagan, Vaclav Havel, Adam Michnik, Plastic People of the Universe, Leszek Kolakowski, Jacek Kuron, East Germany, Andrei Sakharov, Imre Nagy, Lech Walesa, Aleksandr Dubcek, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Moscow Helsinki Group, Bronislaw Geremak, Yelena Bonner, Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ddr, World News
Jesse Larner

Regan probably hastened the fall of the Wall by a few years, but it could have fallen without him. It could not however, have fallen without the sacrifices of those living under Soviet Communism.

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A New Year's Resolution for France- Put Albert Camus In The Pantheon

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Bill Clinton, Pantheon, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Alexander Shelepin, Albert Camus, Nicholas Sarkozy, Kgb, Andrei Sakharov, Marcel Cerdan, Frank Wisner Jr., Frank Wisner, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Hillary Clinton, Encounter, Jean-Paul Sartre, Stalinism, World News
Eric Ehrmann

While the left snivels over the literary Camus, the compte rendu on the author is that of an individual who touched the world in an effort to promote the universal rights of man implicit in the French social contract.

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