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Václav Havel
Dark Past Haunts Czech Election
It’s not often that a 70-year-old political dispute plays a role in a contemporary political campaign. But that’s precisely what is happening in the race for president of the Czech Re...
Op-eds
Return of the Czech Communists
Vaclav Havel is turning over in his grave.
Op-eds
Sinister Trend in Publishing
Saudi Arabia, China, and Iran ban books. Why are they being honored on the European book-fair circuit?
Op-eds
Good Friends are Hard to Find: Why the US Should Support Mithal Alusi and Kurdistan
I know. Foreign policy has been largely an afterthought in the presidential campaign. Iraq, for all intents and purposes, is off the radar screen entirely -- except as a Democratic talking point,...
Op-eds
Wrong Way Down the Danube
How Hungary's Democratic Backsliding Threatens Europe
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Egypt’s Future Uncertain as Mubarak’s Health Worsens
With Egypt soon to head into the final round of its first presidential elections, deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak looks to be on his last legs. Though a court recently sentenced him to life in pri...
Op-eds
The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
Debunking the transformational power of internet freedom.
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Brush with Controversy
The Czech Republic debates artistic freedom—again.
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Havel Was Friend of Israel and Jews
Czech Playwright-Turned-President Led Region to Right Path
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Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, a Revolutionary Who Always ‘Lived Within the Truth’
In 1985, then dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel, who died Sunday at the age of 75, wrote an essay...
Op-eds
Over There: The Occupiers, Seen from Europe
Viewing the Occupy Wall Street movement from post-Communist Europe, I can’t stop thinking of October 1917. This date, when the Bolsheviks seized power from the Russian Provisional...
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Belarus, the Land of No Applause
Unlike other dictators, who speak of their love for “freedom” and “liberty,” President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus is admirably blunt abou...
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Democracy in The Middle East?
Since the end of the Ottoman Empire, through the many conflicts of the 20th century, the Middle East and North Africa have undergone two countervailing trends: the rise of authoritarian regimes a...
Op-eds
How The Wall Fell
When the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, it did not fall from sheer wear and tear of tyranny. People actively chose to destroy it. They tore down that iconic wall not only with pickaxes, hamm...
Op-eds
What’s Left? Answer: A Few Liberal Hawks
The war in Iraq is a neo-conservative project, right? Yes, in the sense that in the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and S...
Op-eds
The Pope of Freedom
By: Dr. Walid Phares. It was October 1978, during the Lebanon war. Syrian artillery pounded the free enclave of my motherland: Dozens of civilians were killed every day. As a la...
Op-eds
CPD Calls on Libya to Free Imprisoned Democracy Activist
Physicians for Human Rights reports that Fathi Eljahmi is su...
Press Releases
Committee on the Present Danger Seeks Meeting with Jailed Egyptian Legislator
March 9, 2005 -- Following Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's recent announcement that the country's constitution would be amended to allow direct, multiparty presidential elections, th...
Press Releases
Give Freedom a Chance
Readers of a certain age will recall the name Anatoli Sharansky. He was a Soviet dissident who in 1978 was tried by a kangaroo court, convicted of treason and shipped off to the Gulag. A...