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“I simply refuse to give up any of our weapons in this war – whether that be criminal prosecutions, whether that be financial sanctions or, ultimately, some threat of military action.” – Ellis Henican In response to the Assasination Plot – President Obama announced sanctions against Iran. Do sanctions work and is this a strong [...]
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http://www.newsday.com/columnists/ellis-henican/quest-for-freedom-meets-violent-match-1.2699418 The spark of freedom, once struck, is not easily extinguished. Isn’t that the lesson of the American Revolution, the French Revolution and about a hundred other revolutions since? Well, that spark has clearly been struck in Tahrir Square as Facebook social networkers and English-speaking college students quickly toppled Egypt’s autocratic Mubarak regime. So Bahrain [...]
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“140-Character World Changers,” Ellis Henican Column, am/New York, June 19, 2009, page 4 Why should Iranian election protesters have all the Twitter fun? Can’t other world events be hijacked, one 140-character outburst at a time? Sure, they can. And soon they will be. Every day, it gets a little bit harder to tell the social-networking [...]
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