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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
SRI LANKA: Illusion of Freedom"They tell us, these tyrants, that they adore a God of peace and equality, and yet they usurp our land and make us their slaves. They speak to us of an immortal soul and of their eternal rewards and punishments, and yet they rob our belongings, seduce our women, violate our daughters.
Posted on 4 February 2012 | 12:03 am
Vengeful ‘gods’ of the WestUnmanned drones can effortlessly vaporise enemies -- and innocent civilians too.
Posted on 2 February 2012 | 10:03 pm
Drones fight a coward’s warTHE ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgment, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest.
Posted on 1 February 2012 | 3:20 am
At the Institute of philosophy, RUSSIANThe Institute of philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences held a round table dedicated to the 50 anniversary of the death in exile of the prominent leaders of Russian pre-revolutionary liberal movement Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkovoj-Williams (1869-1962).
Posted on 30 January 2012 | 8:40 pm
Aussie Novelist Takes on Civil RightsThe moral passion of Solzhenitsyn made Elliot Perlman a novelist. His deeply Jewish sensibility and liberal world view are never so evident as in ‘The Street Sweeper.’
Posted on 30 January 2012 | 10:12 am
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Author, life coach Martha Beck inspires"A lot of people thought I wrote that out of anger," Beck says. "I wrote it because I believe, as Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, that there are times when silence is a lie." As a professor at Brigham Young University, she says, "hardly a day went ...
Posted on 8 February 2012 | 7:33 am
Shaken by rallies, Putin says Russian“We need to create a political system where people can and must speak the truth,” Putin said in a wordy article which also quoted Soviet dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. “Our civil society has become incomparably more ...
Posted on 6 February 2012 | 12:44 pm
I Do Choose to Run: I find your lack ofAs early as June 1978, when he delivered his now-famous commencement speech at Harvard, Soviet dissident and writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn diagnosed the fundamental problems of the West as hyper-individualism, a paralyzing narrowness of vision ...
Posted on 6 February 2012 | 8:04 am
How Russian Technology Provides Eyes AndA descendent of a Soviet secret technologies unit run under the auspices of the KGB, it has direct connection to the Marfino Sharashka, the secret GULAG research laboratory that Alexander Solzhenitsyn refers to in his novel, ‘The First Circle’.
Posted on 6 February 2012 | 4:22 am
Totalitarian novel, North Korean style -SEVERAL great novels have been written about totalitarianism. George Orwell, Ayn Rand and Alexander Solzhenitsyn have penned fictional accounts of tyrannical societies, mostly based on the Soviet example. But totalitarianism did not disappear with the ...
Posted on 4 February 2012 | 10:51 am











