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Anyone watching mainstream news this week might not know that a major bipartisan effort is moving through Congress, aimed at protecting freedom and democracy while holding totalitarianism at bay. That’s because the liberal media have an intentionally myopic focus on the completely partisan effort in the House of Representatives to attack, smear and impeach the president of the United States. According to the mainstream networks, the impeachment hearings are the only newsworthy events happening in Washington. And yet on Tuesday, the Senate unanimously passed legislation to help protect the people of Hong Kong battling the oppression of the Chinese Communist...

Back in February Tanya T. translated an investigative report from Bulgarian TV on the Syrian “rebels” — the so-called “moderate” opposition to the Assad regime who are otherwise indistinguishable from Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and other jihad groups that ravage that part of the Middle East. The documentary included details about the support provided for these jihad groups by the United States, presumably via the CIA — including supplying them with TOW missiles. As is our standard procedure, I edited the translated transcript to make a subtitle file for Vlad Tepes, and he subtitled an excerpt from the video....

Right now in a country far from our shores there are oppressed people who desire freedom and democracy. They long for the things that we simply take for granted on a day-to-day basis. Their yearning for freedom can be further fueled by a call of support by the citizens of the United States. Some great work has been done in the region where this nation I speak of resides. Two democracies have sprung like oases and are now thriving. Opportunities the citizens of the two countries never had are now being realized. Girls have the chance to be educated and...

Feb. 10, 2005 22:55 | Updated Feb. 10, 2005 23:07 Envoy to US: Referendum may erode American support By HERB KEINON Israel may lose ground in Washington if it carriers out a disengagement referendum that will delay implementation of the plan, Israel's ambassador to the US Danny Ayalon indicated Thursday, just two days after Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom came out full force in favor of the referendum. "In my view I don't think anything that will postpone, or interfere, with the timetable or orderly manner of carrying out disengagement would be viewed favorably in Washington," Ayalon told The Jerusalem Post....