Plurality said that Hamdan’s proposed trial violated Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Spiegel Looks at Hamdan Ruling
Supreme Court insists on rights accorded by the US legal system and by the Geneva Convention.
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Spiegel on Fall of Dutch Government
Coalition government collapsed in acrimony after D66 party supported a vote of no confidence.
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On The Penguin Freud Reader
The notion that opposites can collapse into each other at any time becomes very troubling.
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1906 Edition of The Jungle Was Not Censored
The version that See Sharp Press disparages as ‘censored’ is the version Sinclair approved.
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On Goldstein on Spinoza
The intersection between Spinoza’s Jewishness and the cosmopolitanism of his thought.
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Jack Miles on Dennett’s Breaking the Spell
Concepts of God are to theists as concepts of Howard Stern are to atheists. Eh?
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US Supreme Court: Military Tribunals Illegal
Court rules that trying terrorism suspects by military tribunal violates Geneva Conventions.
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Man Sentenced for ‘Honour Killing’ in Denmark
Ghazala Khan was murdered because the family opposed her choice of husband.
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Supporting Science Teachers
Science academies from 67 countries sign a statement on teaching evolution. They’re for it.
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Emma Dunham Kelley Hawkins was White
One mistake is hard to root out of the literature, even harder to root out of popular consciousness.
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Furthermore, EDKH Wrote Bad Novels
Despite all the subtle – very, very subtle – signs of irony and resistance and whatnot.
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Richard Swinburne Talks Revolting Nonsense
Suffering is good for us, God answers prayers if we ask for the right reasons.
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We May Lose Hormones, But We Gain Empathy
Development never stops, which is one of the things that make it interesting to be a being.
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Kira Cochrane Interviews Ariel Levy
How does one distinguish the new feminism from the old objectification?
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A C Grayling on the Human Rights Act
Institutionalising rights guarantees inconveniences for politicians; and that is as it should be.