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Sacklers Up Against The Wall

August 20, 2021 – 10:04 am

After the Chinese Red Army’s triumph over Chiang Kai-Chek’s Kuomintang in 1949. Chairman Mao instituted a ruthless campaign against drug dealers and opium addicts to combat the plague of addiction through China. Opium disappeared from most of the country other than the Southern provinces bordering Burma. This no-nonsense approach was adopted by most of the […]

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You Dirty Rat

June 24, 2013 – 6:34 pm

James Cagney’s character never sat ‘you dirty rat’ in BLONDE CRAZY. The actual words were “Mmm, that dirty, double-crossin’ rat.” Close enough for me, for I was raised to regard any fink as a rat by the Bowery Boys and gangster movies. Everyone hated a snitch, but that never stopped the class squealer from telling […]

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Pussy Rioter’s Final Statement

August 10, 2012 – 10:14 am

Yekaterina Samutsevich: Closing Statement at the Pussy Riot Trial During the closing statement, the defendant is expected to repent or express regret for her deeds, or to enumerate attenuating circumstances. In my case, as in the case of my colleagues in the group, this is completely unnecessary. Instead, I want to express my views about […]

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Pussy Riot Freedom

August 9, 2012 – 12:15 pm

Show trial in the USSR were an integral instrument of Stalin’s oppressive regime and the practice has been revived in Vladimir Putin’s Russia to stifle any and all demonstrations against his rule. Last February three members of the punk group Pussy Riot entered Moscow’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Christ to perform PRAYER beseeching the Mother […]

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