In Britain there are “faith” schools where children are deprived of the chance to swim, make art, play a musical instrument, own a camera or read Harry Potter; schools where girls are taught that future husbands are entitled to beat them; where pupils don’t know the difference between sharia and English law, and where they learn …
Below is the web address for Glenn Greenwald’s commentary on the CIA torture report: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/09/live-coverage-release-senate-torture-report/ It seems that the leaders of the free world handed moslem captives over to sadists, who did disgusting things to them. A century of moralizing by nationalistic Americans now has the rest of the world laughing at, and now ignoring, …
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Francis Fukayama is the man who predicted the “end of history”. He has recently put forward a new theory: the unlikelihood of successful human government in view of the fact that human beings are hard wired to favor their relatives first, their friends second, and strangers absolutely last. In many parts of the world, he …
A majority of Britons in a Huffington Post survey concluded that religion “does more harm than good,” and 60 percent described themselves as “not religious at all.” Another recent survey showed that twice as many Britons believe in ghosts as believe in God. Nonetheless, in Britain there are numerous ” faith” schools, where religion is …
A couple years ago, then US Trade Representative Ron Kirk explained why the negotiating text of trade agreements like the TPP needed to be kept secret: because if the public debated it, the agreement probably wouldn’t be approved. He used, as an example, a failed trade agreement where the text had been public. Beyond the “small sample …
