The left’s embrace of an Islamist movement supported by Iranian mullahs would have appalled Karl Marx.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Anti-semitic Jokes at Edinburgh Festival
Trend to think the Left should hate Bush, Blair, US imperialism, Israel – and the Jews.
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Civil Rights Hiring Changes in Bush Era
Permanently hiring lawyers with strong conservative credentials but little civil rights experience.
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Conservative Xian Idea of Civil Rights Cases
Xian group sues to turn public library into part-time church.
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More on Sen on Identity and Violence
What makes us want to see the world in terms of us and them?
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More on the Department of Vice and Virtue
HRW says the department could be used to silence critical voices, limit women’s and girls’ lives.
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Carlin Romano on a Book on Being Amish
The Amish offer only one opportunity to choose; the opportunity should be lifelong.
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Uh Oh
A third of nurses fail basic arithmetic and English test. But they need to keep records of dosages…
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Pharyngula on Microfascism
Health sciences are colonised by an all-encompassing research paradigm: post-positivism.
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New Party Founded in Egypt
Secular but nationalist.
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Controversial Berlin Exhibition on Forced Migration
Critics call exhibition an attempt to re-write history, with Germans as victims.
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Gays Flee Shia Death Squads in Iraq
Section 111 of Iraq’s penal code has protections for murder ‘when people are acting against Islam.’
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Nick Cohen on Stupid Ideas
Such as the idea that the Islamist ‘threat’ is a phantom menace used to distract the credulous masses.
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Yippee, it’s Goddess Time
Or, how to park your brain for a weekend.
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Minister, Others, Criticise ‘Muslim Letter’
Cite problem with saying ”Well, change your foreign policy or we’ll blow you up.’
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Kenyan Evangelicals Urge Museum to Hide Bones
Leakey calls comments outrageous, museum waffles about a ‘tricky situation.’
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Fred Halliday on Arendt and Deutscher
Both sought to defend core values that crossed boundaries of prejudice and narrow partisanship.
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Multiculturalist Civil Religion
Don’t miss H E Baber’s comment.
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Evidence is Evil
Post-positivism is a dominant ideology so it has privileged status so it’s an example of microfascism.
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ACLU Report on Prison Conditions After Katrina
Here’s a hint: they weren’t good.