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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A U.S.-based non-governmental organization has become the latest casualty in what campaigners say is a global tightening of restrictions on charitable activity by authoritarian governments, by deciding to close its operations in Russia. The MacArthur Foundation, which has operated in Moscow for more than 20 years - financing higher education, human rights and anti-nuclear proliferation campaigns - said new laws had made it "impossible to continue," by placing the charity on a list of "undesirable" organizations - a criticism it said was baseless. "We are entirely independent of the United States government and receive no...

----- Original Message ----- From: Nick Subject: Could it have been an Undesirable Discharge? Subject: Courtesy of Major Bill Donahue USMC (Ret) Kerry's discharge Sit down and take a deep breath. I learned something over the past few hours. LB, you have known me for many years. I tell you this with full assurance that I believe every word I am writing. I trust my source 110%. As a former Army Remington Raider you may understand the details of this better then me. The earlier Internet statements that John Kerry got a dishonorable discharge (DD) were wrong. You and I...

Undesirable influence Readers of this column were not surprised by the news article that led the front page of Wall Street Journal last Wednesday. They are already aware that a number of Arab- and Muslim-American organizations and representatives that support Hamas and other militant Islamic (or “Islamist”) terrorist groups have gained unwarranted access to the White House and top Bush Administration officials. The Journal quoted yours truly as warning that “‘Allowing these sorts of organizations to meet with the president and his senior subordinates is a very bad idea,’ says Mr. Gaffney. While the administration now is cracking down on...