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Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science at Grove City College, is this month's guest on C-Span2's "In-Depth" beginning at noon EDT. Kengor will be interviewed about his work and respond to call-in comments during the two hour show. His latest book is "The Divine Plan: Pope Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Dramatic Fall of Communism. Other books include Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. Usually an interesting and informative program.

I was born at the beginning of the Second World War into a family of high school teachers who were members of the Communist Party, and therefore were actually part of a vast conspiracy dedicated to the destruction of this country, although they would never have looked at it that way, and so-called liberals would be the first to deny it. n those days, the schools were old fashioned enough that my parents did not use their classrooms to indoctrinate students as tens of thousands of university professors and even more K-12 teachers regularly do today. It is also an...

The fashionable current narrative of a "swing to the left" in Latin America, espoused by commentators of left and right alike, appears to have a lot of evidence to commend it: the election of centre-left governments in Brazil and Chile, of more radical figures in Venezuela and Bolivia, and the wave of social protests and convulsions in countries as different as Argentina, Ecuador and Mexico in the first years of the 21st century. The narrative, however, is only skin-deep. It overlooks a key factor: the populist, nationalist and authoritarian currents that have resurfaced in many places. A full account of...

BEIJING: China and Russia are to hold rare joint military exercises involving up to 8,000 service personnel from Aug 18-26, the Global Times reported, citing Russian media reports. 'Peace Mission 2005' will involve China's army, navy and air force, while Russia will dispatch its navy and air force, it said. China's Defense Ministry has not announced the exercises. But Russian President Vladimir Putin said last Thursday during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao that joint exercises will take place later this year. According to the Global Times, which is run by the official People's Daily, final arrangements for...

BEIJING, March 31 - A grass-roots Chinese campaign to keep Japan out of the United Nations Security Council has gathered some 22 million signatures, increasing the chances that China will block Japan's bid to join the group, organizers and analysts said today. The petition effort, conducted through popular Chinese Web sites, enjoys tacit support from the government, which has allowed state-controlled news media to cover the campaign prominently. Japan is expected to be among several nations granted a permanent seat on a revamped Security Council under a plan that could come up for a vote in September. As one of...

Mozilla is a web browser that is essentially what used to be Netscape. There are many reasons to dislike Mozilla. The fact that it is slow, hogs up resources and is unusable is probably enough of a reason not to use it. You can also add promotion of mass murder to the list. At the Mozilla Party website you get a good look at their logo. I suspect the only way to make the developers of Mozilla realize there is nothing cool about communism is by sending them to North Korea to die. Not to many people actually use Mozilla,...

Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 info@judicialwatch.org BELGIAN SUPREME COURT RULING ALLOWS JUDICIAL WATCH MURDER CASE AGAINST FIDEL AND RAUL CASTRO TO BE PROSECUTED Way Now Clear for Prosecution of Crimes Against Humanity Precedent Set In Case Involving Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (Washington, DC) Recently, the Belgian Supreme Court, in a landmark legal ruling, held that crimes against humanity could be prosecuted in Belgian tribunals, even if the acts occurred outside of Belgium. The ruling came in a case involving Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his then top general, both of whom are alleged to have participated in a massacre...

Vietnam was a Noble Cause By Darren Morrison I have heard for years how the Vietnam war was only political, that we had no business there. Collage professors and aging hippies think they won the day. But they bring discredit to the veterans who fought that war. I want people to know that Vietnam was a noble cause. I want our Vietnam veterans to know that their efforts were not in vain, to shed light on some truth that some tried to put away in darkness; to not only bring healing but honor to those great men and some woman...

Washington has asked the Dutch government to freeze the financial assets of a Netherlands-based communist group involved in a bloody 33-year rebellion in the Philippines. Officials in Manila expressed the hope that the U.S. request may also help their campaign to have The Hague deport a small group of exiled communist leaders, who could face criminal charges at home. The move came shortly after Secretary of State Colin Powell announced he was officially designating the Philippine Communist Party and its armed wing, the New People's Army (NPA), as a foreign terrorist organization. Last week Philippine President Gloria Arroyo said U.S.-trained...