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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Women Barred From Voting in NWFP
Senior Minister doesn’t know why media is so senstive about this issue.
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Should Philosophers Review Philosophy?
And historians history, novelists novels? Or should they swap?
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Pope Seeks Promise of Immunity
Texas lawsuit accuses him of conspiring to cover up molestation of three boys by seminarian.
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Slavoj Zizek Says Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
Is not the ‘war on terror’ proof that ‘terror’ is the antagonistic Other of democracy?
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Scott McLemee on Political Theory Daily Review
Volume of material logged each day suggests it is run by a collective of gnomes.
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Wal-Mart and ‘Family Values’
Women can be president, Jon Stewart, no; O’Reilly, Left Behind, Protocols of Elders of Zion, yes.
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Different Version of Menezes Shooting Leaked
No padded jacket, no vaulting the barrier, no fleeing the police.
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Houzan Mahmoud on Women in Iraq
Women in Iraq are being pushed into a corner and the constitution is likely to keep them trapped there.
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Majority of UK Muslims Follow a Liberal Islam
And do not consider the MCB representative, says Dr Shaaz Mahboob.
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Ian Hacking on Steven Rose on the Brain
Consciousness, memory, phantom trees, Locke, Damasio, Leibniz.