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WWF-HK bottom feeding on a consumer society ridden with guilt
NGOs such as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are cashing in on poverty. They extract bad news from the never ending flow of it beamed from all media and offer that with little imagination added to so many who feel…
Only the people should be able to keep or bring down Dilma and other politicians elected in Brazil
They want to bring Dilma down through an impeachment trial decided by federal deputies. For us, as humanists, politicians don’t represent us. This form of impeachment in which the people don’t decide is an institutional coup d’état, one power (legislative)…
A humanising look at the skin of monstrosity
Where does this article come from? I’d like to explain that this article is an editorial about the violent situation that Europe is experiencing at the moment with a particular and intentional perspective of wanting to understand from a humanising…
Panama papers: a haven for financial speculation
Recently, the amount of money that hidden in tax havens has come to light through the “Panama Papers”. This money has been invested through “offshore” companies, a reference to the fact that the majority of these places are island countries. …
Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative? By George Monbiot for The Guardian Book review Imagine if…
Ash Carter’s Asian Folly
“We will remain the principal security power in the Asia-Pacific for decades to come.” Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter Ash Carter is on a mission: to convince Asia’s democracies that Asian security is synonymous with American leadership. Unfortunately for him,…
Obama’s Trillion-Dollar Nuclear-Arms Train Wreck
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” These were the words from the Hindu religious text, the Bhagavad-Gita, that flashed through the mind of the man credited with creating the first atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, as the…
Catholic church now more advanced than U.S. philosophy departments
It ought to be with considerable embarrassment that I say this, as an atheist who thinks religion does far more harm than good, and that it does so not only through the pretense that death isn’t real but first and…
The VAWA Play: Changing the Law, One Show at a Time
The Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe is the last “arty” stop for Sliver of a Full Moon, a play by Mary Kathryn Nagle that dramatizes the legislative struggle to enact the Violence Against Women Act of 2013.…
Nuclear weapon ban treaty – the only way forward
Last year, the UN General Assembly approved the formation of an Open Ended Working Group on the subject of “Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations”. Work started in February and will finish in August. In the first sessions a range…
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