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Slavery and Freedom on the Internet

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Freedom and the Internet

By Nir Boms, The Jerusalem Post Aug. 21, 2007 The Internet – the free and open Web of ideas – has become the new symbol of freedom, or at least one of its more visible prophets. Howard Rheingold, a scholar of the early Internet era, predicted a utopian vision where the “electronic agora” would change [...]

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Assad’s Glasnost?

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Middle East, Syria

By Elliot Chodoff and Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | January 21, 2005 It was a busy week of hospitality for Bashar Al-Assad.  As visitors from America and China graced the halls of the presidential palace in Damascus, longer-staying guests continued to depend on Assad’s welcome and shelter to make trouble across Syria’s borders. Senator John Kerry, still [...]

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