Fakher Haider abducted by armed men wearing masks, claiming to be police officers.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Aggressive Creationists at the Museum
‘It is as if they aren’t listening.’
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Move to Allow Religious Discrimination
Planned amendment to Head Start bill will repeal provisions forbidding discrimination.
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Several Books on Atheism
Atheists have a lot of work to do.
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The Debate Over Holocaust Memorial Day
Shalom Lappin on Sacranie’s false dichotomy.
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Gödel and Einstein
Gödel’s theorems do not state that there are absolutely unprovable truths.
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Carlin Romano on Probabilism and Possibilism
Probabilism tends to protect the powerful and often puts the nonpowerful in danger.
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Simon Wiesenthal
‘He continued to insist that what he sought was justice, not vengeance.’
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Was the Holocaust Exceptional?
Norman Geras on a particularity of the Nazi offence against humanity itself.
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Iqbal Sacranie on Holocaust Memorial Day
Mention of ‘intimidating smears of anti-semitism’ in the press, but none of boycott.
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Simon Wiesenthal Has Died
Holocaust survivor helped find Nazi war criminals, then fought prejudice against all people.
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Simon Wiesenthal
In all, he was believed to have brought 1100 war criminals to trial.
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Carla del Ponte Accuses Vatican
UN prosecutor alleges Vatican is helping Croatian war crimes suspect evade capture.
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The MCB and Holocaust Memorial Day
Which genocides?
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PM Adviser Cites ‘Sinister’ Group of Jews, Freemasons
Ahmad Thomson said the group saw Iraq war as a way to control the Middle East.
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Skepticism About Freud Reaches France
To be greeted by accusations of ‘scientism’ and not recognizing human complexity.
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Reaction to ‘Must We Finish with Psychoanalysis?’
In French, but too interesting not to post.
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‘Faith-based’ Disaster
Fema chooses religious charities in preference to secular ones, with dire results.
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Rhetoric Trumps Action
Bush sounded concerned about poverty, did not mention suspension of wage standards.
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Hitchens Comments on the Encounter
There is a sick and surreptitious fascination with people of a certain thuggish unscrupulousness.