Today, in America, we celebrate the declaration of our independence from Britain. If you read the list of wrongs that led those Americans to "dissolve the bands" which tied them to their forebears, and contrast them to what's happening in Syria today, you can see that in tyranny too, human kind has made real progress. We distract ourselves with a million other things, but distraction doesn't change reality: thousands have died; thousands more are being held; tyranny still lives.
Bassel Khartabil by Joi Ito, on Flickr
One of our own, Bassel Khartabil, is one of those thousands. Bassel is...
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