“Highlighted in all this has been a curious fact of our twenty-first-century world. In the Cold War years, asylum was always potentially available. If you opposed one of the two superpowers or its allies, the other was usually ready to open its arms to you, as the U.S. famously did for what were once called ‘Soviet dissidents’ in great numbers. The Soviets did the same for Americans, Brits, and others, often secret communists, sometimes actual spies, who opposed the leading capitalist power and its global order. Today, if you are a twenty-first-century ‘dissident‘ and need asylum/protection from the only superpower left, there is essentially none to be had.”
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175725/
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