Sarah Idan grew up an Iraqi Muslim under Saddam Hussein. Today, she is a human rights activist who speaks out against antisemitism and Islamic fundamentalism.
The Kurds survived the oppression of Saddam Hussein’s regime and are helping in the fight against the Islamic State, but will their desire for an independent Kurdistan be recognized?
Jiang Zemin’s days are numbered. It is only a question of when, not if, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party will be arrested. Jiang officially ran the Chinese regime for more than a decade, and for another decade he was the puppet master behind the scenes who often controlled events. During those decades Jiang did incalculable damage to China. At this moment when Jiang’s era is about to end, Epoch Times here republishes in serial form “Anything for Power: The Real Story of Jiang Zemin,” first published in English in 2011. The reader can come to understand better the career of this pivotal figure in today’s China.
Western cars were banned in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The country was flooded with VW Passats that were shipped from Brazil between 1983 and 1990 in exchange for oil.