Attacks on civil society and the opposition are the latest developments in a sustained campaign of terror.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Burma Should Free Detained Activist Zargana
Burma’s military government should immediately free Zargana and permit him to continue distributing aid.
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Mugabe Promises to Fight ‘Traitors’
Described the opposition as ‘traitors’ and referred to Zimbabwe’s past struggle for independence.
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Bardot Fined for Remarks on Animal Slaughter
Said in a letter to Sarkozy that Muslims should stun animals before slaughtering them.
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US Defends Right to Offend in Speech
‘Innocent intent is not a defense. Nor is truth. Publication in the public interest is not a defense.’
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India: Hindu Nationalists and Muslims Clash
Supporters of the RSS and local Muslim villagers clashed after the RSS set up a camp in the area.
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Mass Rally for Pakistani Judges
Thousands of protesters are gathering to demand the government reinstate judges fired by Musharraf
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Giles Fraser Talks Tortured Nonsense
Saying ‘intelligent people are less likely to believe in god’ is racist.
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South African Court Bans Aids Vitamin Trials
Rath Foundation promote vitamin pills and minerals which they say can reverse the development of HIV/Aids.
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Maybe Someday Saudi Women Will Run
Or maybe not. Don’t hold your breath.
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David Brooks on Obama’s Applebee’s Problem
‘He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who could go into an Applebee’s salad bar, and people think he fits in naturally there.’
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Nussbaum on Rawls’s ‘Political Liberalism’
We can argue for political principles using ethical notions that are separable from controversial religious doctrines.
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BHL on Simone de Beauvoir
Women around the world, in burqas or irons, are a little more free than they would have been without her.
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Muslim Arbitration Tribunal on Forced Marriage
Bunglawala, MCB express doubts, point to Islamic Sharia Council.
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Religious Scruple Causes Neurological Damage
Midwife asks for help, father blocks male intern, baby is born with neurological damage.
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Norway: Parents Charged in FGM of 5 Daughters
‘The mother and father are charged because they contributed to five of their six daughters being mutilated.’
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Abdullahi An-Naim Calls Himself a Muslim Heretic
Human rights are universal and trump religious dictates. That’s the heresy.
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The Reign of Thuggery
Mbeki has given Mugabe political and diplomatic support in many forums, including the UN.
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Theory. Literary Theory. French Theory. Theory.
Can’t understand today’s global disorders without literary theory. Literary theory the key to all things.
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Richard Wolin on François Cusset
A paradigm opposed to the idea of a centered and cohesive ‘self’ became the basis for identity politics.