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Germany: Reformers Want Pope to Speak Up
The pope should say exactly what he knew about widespread allegations of abuse by clerics in Regensburg.
Date filed: 10-03-2010
Irish Arrests Over Plot to Kill Lars Vilks
The usual thuggish bullying stupidity.
Date filed: 10-03-2010
Muslim Woman Councillor Defies Death Threats
Shiria Khatun says, 'We live in a democratic society and I have the right to dress how I like.'
Date filed: 10-03-2010
Massimo Pigliucci on Pseudo-metaphysics
'Ingeniously put together? By whom? And by what criterion of “ingenuity?”'
Date filed: 10-03-2010
Barney Zwartz on the Global Atheist Convention
Self-indulgent, disdain, blinkered self-congratulation, militant, noisy, inexorable sense of superiority.
Date filed: 10-03-2010
Take One Traumatised Child
By Clare Sambrook
Classify as 'adult', arrest, lock up, and bundle onto plane, bound for danger - Labour's Britain in 2010.
Date filed: 10-03-2010
The Spirituality of an Atheist
By Andrzej Koraszewski
Do atheists have any spirituality? Well what is 'spirituality'?
Date filed: 04-03-2010
Political Theory and the “Group Rights” Debate
By Joshua F. Leach
Individual rights are not Western prejudices; nor can they be thought of as simply one more culture among many.
Date filed: 17-02-2010
Iran Needs a United Democratic and Secular Opposition
By Jahanshah Rashidian
Our society is strong enough not bow to any ideology.
Date filed: 16-02-2010
Islam's Black Dog
By R Joseph Hoffmann
The easy equation between religion and goodness is a relatively modern invention.
Date filed: 13-02-2010
Humanism and the Quest for Justice in Africa
By Leo Igwe
Millions of people around the world are living, languishing, suffering and dying under unjust conditions imposed on them by fellow human beings.
Date filed: 08-02-2010
Amnesty International and Cageprisoners
By Gita Sahgal
The necessary defence of the torture standard has been inexcusably allied to the political legitimization of individuals and organisations belonging to the Islamic Right.
Date filed: 07-02-2010
Remember Them!
By Maryam Namazie
Two young men executed by the Islamic regime of Iran for ‘enmity against god’
Date filed: 03-02-2010
Reflections on John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty
By Eric B. Litwack
It can be said of very few texts that they are touchstones for important discussions across many generations.
Date filed: 09-01-2010
This Nonsense Must Stop
By Leo Igwe
Leo Igwe tells what happened, and that it will not stop him from fighting for justice for Daberechi Anomgam.
Date filed: 07-01-2010
