Musharraf declared a state of emergency just before a crucial Supreme Court ruling on his election.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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No Constitution, No Law
Soon after independent tv stations went blank, dozens of cops surrounded the Supreme Court building.
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Co-epidemic Spreading in Sub-Saharan Africa
Half of all new TB cases in sub-Saharan Africa are now HIV co-infected.
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The Eye of the Storm is in sub-Saharan Africa
The largely unnoticed collision of HIV and TB has exploded to create a deadly co-epidemic.
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Katha Pollitt Skeptical of Horowitz’s Feminism
Ayaan Hirsi Ali gets bad press on the left. Why?
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Murder of Uzbek Reporter Condemned
CPJ urges a thorough inquiry into the murder of outspoken journalist Alisher Saipov.
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What is Debate Really For?
Plato, Rousseau, Mill, Arendt and Habermas discuss with Cmdr Taco.
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Evidence for Nonhuman Primate Language
The point here is not to deny Kanzi’s achievements but to quantify them correctly.
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Aznar and Bush, February 2003
Bush: I am an optimist, because I believe that I’m right. I’m at peace with myself.
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Catherine Bennett on ‘Shared Values’
Is it because only half its population is oppressed that we share values with Saudi Arabia but not with Burma?
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Anthony Giddens on Debating Diversity
Facts should be brought out in the open, not dismissed for ideological reasons.
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Mearsheimer and Walt
They acknowledge that realist theory fails to explain the outsize influence of the Israel lobby.
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Science Pursues Truth, not Consensus
Good science involves open debate, in which dissents are sharpened and clarified, not smoothed over.
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Beatification of a Torturer
One of the 498 ‘martyrs’ of the Spanish Civil War is charged with torturing a prisoner in 1896.
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Martha Nussbaum on Ethical Cosmopolitanism
The political is a place of ‘overlapping consensus.’
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On Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week
Barbara Ehrenreich interrogates Ann Coulter’s concern for women’s rights.
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Ann Coulter at USC and on CNBC
Cites threat of religious fundamentalism, says Jews need to be ‘perfected’ by turning Christian.
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Cherie Blair on Culture Religion and Women’s Rights
Said all major world religions share ‘insistence on the dignity of all God’s people.’ Really?
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Booth QC: Women’s Rights are a Universal Ethic
Differences of culture or religion cannot be used as a justification for denying equal rights to women.
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Catholic League Pitches Fit Over Philip Pullman
Militant atheist – aggressive – in-your-face assault – offensive – despicable – pernicious.