The facts of widespread human privation and those of political oppression and atrocity are available to all who want them.
Author: Ophelia Benson
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Thomas Nagel on the Sleep of Reason
Eerily patient explanations from Sokal and Bricmont of why gibberish is gibberish.
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Brian Appleyard’s Understanding the Present reviewed.
‘Scientists and their works are everywhere described in an arctic language of despair.’
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Lee Smith on Tariq Ramadan
‘Ramadan is a cold-blooded Islamist who believes that Islam is the cure for the malaise wrought by liberal values.’
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Irfan Khawaja takes issue with Daniel Pipes
Militant Islam and militant Christian fundamentalism are indeed related.
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Ni Putes ni Soumises
‘We’re girls, so we’re less-than-nothings, Priscilla, 17, told Le Monde after her friend Sohane’s death.
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Gangsta Rap Culture Not Such a Good Thing?
Education has been portrayed as ‘white’ – what use is it when strutting the streets?
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Just so you know
Don’t worry if one day soon you click on B&W and get a page saying ‘migration in progress’ – it won’t be a bit of hackery, and it won’t take long. B&W is moving – to a better world. Be grateful to Josh Larios.
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Excuse me sir
What a brilliant idea. Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens
have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church. The pair believe they can exploit the same legal principle used to arrest Augusto Pinochet, the late Chilean dictator, when he visited Britain in 1998. The Pope was embroiled in new controversy this weekend over a letter he signed arguing that the “good of the universal church” should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys. It was dated 1985, when he was in charge of the [Inquisition]… Dawkins and Hitchens believe the Pope would be unable to claim diplomatic immunity from arrest because, although his tour is categorised as a state visit, he is not the head of a state recognised by the United Nations.
The mills of the lord grind slowly…
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Canadian Bishops Tried to Hide Abuse
Canadian bishops sought to hide a pedophile priest’s crimes by urging Vatican not to promote him.
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Ratzinger Slow to Defrock Abusive Priest
Priest pled nolo for tying up and molesting two boys; Ratzinger dawdled, citing the good of the Church.
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Massey Mine Has Years of Safety Violations
MSHA said for the most serious type of safety violation the mine had more than 11 times national rate.
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Nader on the Miserable State of Mine Safety
‘Violations are unfortunately a normal part of the mining process,’ says Blankenship. UBB mine is non-union.
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Safety Requirements? What Safety Requirements?
10% of underground mines have implemented the tougher safety requirements Congress passed in 2006.
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Dakins and Hitchens Plan to Bust the Pope
Pinochet was busted, Kissinger got a knock on the door, now it’s Ratzinger’s turn.
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Ind. World Report Interviews Alaina Podmorow
What are the choices we have, when we are told about the plight of our fellow human beings?
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Now More Than Ever: Stand by Your Church
It’s just the whiners and bedwetters who are leaving the Catholic church, which is all the stronger without them.