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Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Washington Post Asks: Should Pope Resign?
No. He should remain while the profiteering, woman-fearing, guilt-gorging, truth-hating, child-raping institution falls.
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Catholic Church Practicing Unholy Art of Spin
Say it’s old news. Blame someone else. Say up is down. Demonize gays. Blame the victims. Blow smoke.
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Serbia Apologizes for Srebrenica Massacre
Serbia’s parliament voted to condemn the 1995 massacre of c. 8,000 Bosnians and apologize to the victims.
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AI Annual Report on the Death Penalty
After China, the worst offending nations were Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the US.
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Nick Cohen on Defending Violent Misogyny
How it becomes politically reputable to ignore the suffering of others.
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Terry Glavin Cheers On Alaina Podmorow
Schoolgirl crushes ‘post-colonial feminist theory’ that attacks feminists who do real work for their living sisters in Afghanistan.
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More Props for Alaina Podmorow
And a rebuke for Canadian universities.
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‘Hutaree’ Militia and Rise of Far-right Violence
Disingenuous for mainstream purveyors of incendiary far-right rhetoric to say there are ‘crazies on both sides.’
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‘Contrarian’ Spiked Joins Defenders of Church
It wasn’t that bad, and besides, new atheists, ew.
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Jack of Kent on the Church and the Criminal Law
Why do we still seem to have this bizarre medieval duality of secular law and “canon law”?
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Neo-humanism or Atheism
The whole ‘Who says so?’ attitude of many secular humanists leads to purist rigor, one-upsman-ship, even soteriology.
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Greta Christina Says Thanks for the Advice
‘I have yet to see a believer advise the atheist movement to speak up more loudly and more passionately.’
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Paul Fidalgo on Why Atheists Should Speak Up
Reason, science, freedom from oppressive myth, equality for those who have opted out of supernatural belief.
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Pope Won’t Be ‘Intimidated’ by ‘Petty Gossip’
Cited ‘the courage of not allowing oneself to be intimidated by the petty gossip of dominant opinion.’
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Human Rights Watch and Selective Monitoring
Why put such effort into publicising alleged human-rights violations in some countries but not others?
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Silence of the Vatican on Rwanda is Contempt
The church can let those African bodies remain buried, dehumanised and unexamined.
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Catholic Priests Are Not the Only Child Rapists
‘The reality remains that children are most at risk in their own homes. Yet we don’t demonise fathers.’
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Pope is a ‘Head of State’ So He Has Immunity
The Vatican claims it is protected by a US law which prohibits lawsuits against foreign countries.
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Damian Thompson Blames ‘Liberal Catholics”
It’s all their fault, they’re out to get Ratzinger, mutter mutter rave.