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Nobel Struggle in China
This week, Chinese government censors tried their best to stop the spread of the news jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Liu is serving 11 years in a Chinese prison...
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Missing the Point on Human Rights
The Norwegian Nobel Committee held its annual awards ceremony last week in Oslo, where it intended to award the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese intellectual and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo “for...
View ArticleA Champion of Freedom Passes
Of all those whom we at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation have honored with the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom—and they include such famed defenders of freedom as Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa,...
View ArticleMorning Bell: The Nobel Intentions Prize
As fellow Americans we always take pride in the achievements and awards of our compatriots. Although we congratulate President Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize today, he should accept the award...
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We’ll Know If He Deserved It By December
Like much of the rest of the world, President Obama this morning declared himself “surprised” that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, for which he had been nominated on February 1, after just a few...
View ArticleBest Use for Obama’s Nobel Windfall? Save the 216
According to the Fox News White House blog: The White House says that the President has decided to give the approximately $1.4 million prize accompanying his Nobel Prize to charity. They have not made...
View ArticleVideo: Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Rebiya Kadeer Pleas For U.S. Help
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62pNLVUycg4[/youtube] Rebiya Kadeer is President of the World Uyghur Congress, an oppressed Muslim minority in Western China. Focrefully seperated from her...
View ArticleTenzin Dorjee of Students for a Free Tibet on ‘Not Indulging China’s Behavior’
Tenzin Dorjee, Executive Director of Students for a Free Tibet, recently sat down with Heritage’s Dr. Lee Edwards, Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought, to offer insight on the ethnic and...
View ArticlePeace Prize for Obama, Cuts for Iranian Reformers
In the citation for President Obama’s award of the Nobel peace prize, the Norwegian Nobel Academy mentioned that his style of leadership would bring in a new era for human rights and democracy – among...
View ArticleIran’s Nuclear Poker
Yesterday Iran, France, the US, and Russia held the first day of nuclear talks. The issue concerns what to with Iran’s stockpile enriched uranium, material that can reprocessed to fuel nuclear power...
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Obama’s Nobel Prize Speech Wrong on Global Warming
In the midst of resolving conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama briefly mentioned another war in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech: the war on climate change. He said, “The absence...
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Obama’s Northern Exposure
The Nobel Committee’s choice of President Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize was baffling, to Norwegians and Americans alike. Even President Obama himself was amazed. As he admitted in his acceptance...
View ArticleCharter 08′s Liu Xiaobo Deserves Public Support from Obama
Liu Xiaobo, one of the primary drafters of the Charter 08 manifesto by Chinese intellectuals calling for protection of human rights, comprehensive political reforms, and a democratic government in...
View ArticleOne Year Later: America Retreats From Global Leadership Under Obama
The world needs American leadership. In the interwar years, we saw that the enemies of freedom advance when the great liberal and democratic powers of the day failed to lead. We saw it again in the...
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The Second Coming of Jimmy Carter?
Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Walter Russell Mead writes at Foreign Policy: Neither a cold-blooded realist nor a bleeding-heart idealist, Barack Obama has a split personality when it...
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Nobel Peace Prize for Ahmadinejad?
The popular appeal of nuclear weapon free world rhetoric has not been lost on Tehran. This is an insight the Iranian regime shares with Obama administration, which has made nuclear arms reduction...
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This Just In: White House Disappointed with America…Again!
This morning, the U.S. State Department announced that the U.S. had submitted its “Report of the United States of America” to the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights. This report...
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G-20 Summit a Perfect Opportunity to Stand for Freedom
Liu Xiaobo, a primary author of the Charter 08 document calling for better human rights and democracy in China, has just won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the G-20 Summit this November in South Korea,...
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The EU’s Nobel Peace Prize: Not Just a Laughing Matter
The news that the European Union—which is in the midst of the most sustained crisis of its history—has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is worthy of a laugh—or three. European defense spending is at...
View ArticleSurprise, Surprise: Nobel Prize Awarded for Politics, Not Substance
Many self-righteous and smug Eurocrats will be celebrating the European Union’s Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded earlier today in Oslo, Norway. Wisely and sensibly, some European leaders, such as...
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Russian “Grandma of Human Rights” Nominated for Nobel Prize
Photo credit: ITAR-TASS/Newscom This week, Senator Benjamin Cardin (D–MD) nominated the “grandma” of the Russian human rights movement, Lyudmila Alekseeva, for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. Cardin’s...
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Cyprus Bank Raid: The Decaying Eurozone Is Rotting the European Union
Marios Lolos/Xinhua/Photoshot/Newscom Today, Cyprus’s banks opened for the first time in more than 10 days, after Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades—without seeking approval from his...
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U.S. Calls for Investigation of Cuban Opposition Leader’s Death
ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Recent remarks by Spanish official Ángel Carromero in The Washington Post are shedding new light on the events that resulted in the death of Cuban dissident and...
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Nelson Mandela: A Symbol of Compassion and Equality
Bandphoto / Uppa.co.uk/UPPA/Photoshot/Newscom Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the first democratic president of post-apartheid South Africa, has passed away at his home in Johannesburg after months of...
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11 Female Superstars We’re Honoring for Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month and we want to honor those women who’ve made a difference! Photo credit: Newscom Margaret Thatcher tackled communism as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to...
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