The Olympics Are Political
China has invited the world in and we are coming, but let's not pretend we are making a compact when we turn on NBC or ESPN to not let our beliefs about human rights and freedom enter our mind.
China has invited the world in and we are coming, but let's not pretend we are making a compact when we turn on NBC or ESPN to not let our beliefs about human rights and freedom enter our mind.
In recognition of the limited time he has before departing for Beijing, we've put together a brief list of the best recent China writing on the Web.
This week's discovery -- using solar power to mimic photosynthesis -- could help us use the huge abundance of sun energy in a way that can give power to people everywhere.
These protests will continue to take place because this is precisely the time to bring attention to China's horrendous record on human rights and freedom.
"Before, this was the best place, but now it's like a prison." This is how one young Tibetan man describes life in Lhasa these days in an interview that was smuggled out of Tibet.
The IOC has known that China's website policies would be a problem all along and informally sought to manage change.
Protesting the Beijing Olympics are not enough to bring independence to Tibet, democracy to China or allow the Chinese people to finally practice freedom of speech and religion.
When pundits such as CNN's Jack Cafferty describe the Chinese government as a "bunch of goons and thugs" and Chinese products as "junk" it becomes clear that it is the newly fashionable position is to lay in to China.
In this age of globalization, the Chinese government can no longer assume that its whole-hearted embrace of free markets can occur without its own citizens pushing for other kinds of freedoms.
Last week was Aspen at its best. On Monday we got to hear King Abdullah of Jordan and a few days later I participated in a three-day symposium that featured His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Tenzin Norgay has been following reports of human rights violations coming out of Tibet for over six years now. The hardest part, he says, is the unrealistic hopes of those helping: "Everybody expects things to change overnight."
My late husband, Hunter S. Thompson, said that he was a teenage girl trapped in the body of an elderly dope fiend. On Saturday, I realized His Holiness is a teenage girl trapped in the body of a Dalai Lama.
For global survival, they must not repeat the mistakes of previous empires and superpowers, but turn to a new concept of power, a global meshing of mutual enlightened self-interests.
The only way to clearly denounce the corrupt behavior of the Chinese government is to withdraw corporate sponsorship from the Olympics.
In his speech Thursday in Philadelphia, the Dalai Lama explained that to reach a point where nations would outwardly disarm, people must first inwardly disarm.
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