Map shows the Taleban strengthening their hold across the north-west. Zardari rejects the findings.
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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Frontline on Madoff
The world’s first global ponzi scheme; how did he do it, why didn’t the SEC act?
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Frontline Interviews Journalist on the SEC
‘A thesis emerged within the agency that it was too much of a burden on the American economy.’
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Don’t Mention the Pope’s Hitler Youth Past
‘The Pope was never in the Hitler Youth, never, never, never,’ spokesman told a press conference.
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Classroom Filled With an Odour of Insecticide
‘What will she do about education in the future, when her life is in danger?’ the distraught father added.
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Salil Tripathi on Democracy and Dissent
Binayak Sen’s advocacy of
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AIRRA Update on Swat
The ongoing militancy in Swat and the military operation has caused huge hardships for the population of the area.
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The Demjanjuk Case
The German judiciary is making the point that no one is immune from justice – even sixty years later.
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Normblog Writer’s Choice: Russell Blackford
Stranger in a Strange Land has some of the characteristics of a monomyth, some of those of an encyclopaedia.
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Afghanistan: 84 Schoolgirls Gassed
A new way to keep girls from going to school: gas them.
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Girls Punished for Being Born Female
Five girls went briefly into comas, nearly 100 were taken to hospital after a gas attack on their school.
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UAE: Torture Sheikh Arrested
Video showed the sheik torturing a grain dealer with whips, cattle prods, and a plank with protruding nails.
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Let’s Ask God What To Do
Lisbon Treaty will secure a stronger consultative role for European religions in EU policy making.
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Hans Holzer, Ghost Scholar
The Other Side is run by a bureaucracy; spirits must ask permission and list their motives to contact mediums.
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Dial-a-fatwa to Launch in UK
Will draw on the ‘expertise’ of scholars from al-Azhar to tell people how to lead an Islamic life.
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Roxana Saberi is Out of Evin Prison
She is free to leave Iran.
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Reporters Without Borders Hails Saberi Release
The appeal court’s decision can be used as a legal precedent for other journalists detained in Iran.
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Salman Rushdie’s New Story ‘In the South’
Abundance gave the ascetically inclined Senior a permanent low-level headache.
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Jeddah Judge Approves Woman-hitting
If a person gives money to his wife and she spends some on an abaya and he slaps her, she deserves it.
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O Who Hath Seen the Elephant’s Wings?
No one, but no matter, the sapient amongst us know they are there, hidden away inside the quantum.