World’s Worst 5 Dictators of the 21st Century—Number 1 Makes Stalin Look Like Santa Claus

SUNNY CHAO  | EPOCH TIMES The 20th century has seen tyrants like none in the history of the world—Mao, Stalin, Hitler—and well over 100 million have been killed during those hundred years. The 21st century, meanwhile, is not lacking in comparison in terms of brutal dictators—indeed, some of these updated despots may even excel beyond their predecessors in […]

Even Santa Can't Escape Toxic Smog in China

<![CDATA[Oiwan Lam  |  Global Voices This article by Oiwan Lam originally appeared on Global Voices on 26 December 2015. During Christmas as toxic smog spread from the northern provinces to central China, the country’s netizens expressed concern that air pollution will become the new “normal” as official state media continues to twist a positive angle out of the bad news. On […]