Boycotting the 2022 “Genocide Games”
Boycotting the 2022 “Genocide Games”
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Boycotting the 2022 “Genocide Games”

Though the 2020 Summer Olympic Games are just getting underway in Tokyo after being rescheduled, many eyes are turning toward the 2022 Winter Games currently set to be held in…

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Big Tech Totalitarianism
Big Tech Totalitarianism
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Big Tech Totalitarianism

I had the privilege and pleasure of attending graduate school for international relations in Washington, D.C. under the instruction of old school professors. They had lived through the cold war, and were…

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Tyrants Beware!
Jacqueline Halbig von Schleppenbach with Chen Guangchen following our interview November, 2020.

Tyrants Beware!

Recently I was honored to interview Chen Guangchen, the Chinese dissident, also known for his memoir The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s Fight fo Justice and Freedom in China, which happens to…

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Free Speech is a Constitutional Right
Shoring up the Right of Free Speech and Religious Expression!
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Free Speech is a Constitutional Right

“Freedom –is indivisible- there is no “s” on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep “some freedoms” while giving…

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Freedom and Venezuela

Something about the incomprehensible chaos going on around me in our nation’s capital reminds me of Ronald Reagan’s famous quote;  “Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one…

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