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Unfortunately 100 is Small Pickings for Ramzan Kadyrov

April 13, 2017 | by Dale Claridge | 0 Comments

LGBT activist groups and human rights watch organisations are uncovering the systematic targeting of homosexual men in Chechnya. Distressingly, there are reports of prison camps in which gay men are being murdered. Chechnya’s current leader, Kadyrov, has made a number of statements that could be interpreted as either utterly delusional, or duplicitous and poorly calculated. […] Read more

An Interview with Robert Ray, President of the Humanists of North Puget Sound

April 13, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

"Empathy, reason, and the ability to learn from experiences are all necessary to work with others. Religious dogma...was created to control others." Read more

Palm Sunday Massacre: Egypt’s Coptic Christians are Endangered

April 13, 2017 | by Sarah Mills | 0 Comments

The Palm Sunday massacres in Egypt killed at least 44 people and left over 100 wounded. The international community must do more to help. Read more

An Interview with Ron Millar – PAC Coordinator for the Center for Freethought Equality

April 12, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s your own story? How did you get into the Freethought Equality business? Was there much of a family background? My family has no history in atheist and humanist politics. I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian church and enjoyed interacting with many of the people there, but their narrow view of […] Read more

Hypocrisy: The Left Needs to Rebuild Trust

April 11, 2017 | by Helen Pluckrose | 0 Comments

The current obsession with hypocrisy has special significance for the Left. Evolutionary psychology and Moral Foundations Theory shed light on this. Read more

Online Hate Speech and Sexual Threats- How Women can Fight Back

April 10, 2017 | by Madelaine Hanson | 0 Comments

One of my closest friends is outspoken, beautiful, intelligent and political. Like a lot of women who engage in activism online, she receives a fair amount of sexist abuse, threats and harassment. So when she asked me how I deal with the hatred I also often receive, I had to think pretty hard before giving […] Read more

An “Ever-closer Union” is Driving the EU Further Apart

April 10, 2017 | by Emile Yusupoff | 0 Comments

The Drive Towards a United Europe is Self-defeating. With 60 years having passed since the Treaty of Rome, the European Union and its predecessors have now shaped Europe for almost as long as the Soviet Union did. It is not an unnoticed irony that the EU’s 60th has coincided with the confirmation of the United […] Read more

Reflections on the Gender Pay Gap

April 8, 2017 | by CNLifestyle | 0 Comments

By Beatrice Louis and Scott Douglas Jacobsen #EqualPayDay is over. With it, we find the regular slew of mutual recriminations. While liberals resolved to fight the good fight to decrease the gender pay gap, Conservatives have re-posted and rebooted a number of videos, and articles, intent on destroying what they like to phrase as the ‘pay […] Read more

Stop Telling Secular Western Women to be Quiet

April 8, 2017 | by Madelaine Hanson | 0 Comments

Today, I got up and opened my laptop. Immediately, I see a barrage of comments and inbox messages calling me a ‘feminazi’ a ‘slut’ and a ‘stupid c****’. My crime? I made a sarcastic post on modesty culture. Did I ‘ask for it’ by publicly flaunting my views? Should I just shut up? It’s 4pm […] Read more

An Interview with Christine M. Shellska – President, Atheist Alliance International

April 8, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

In this interview, Christine M. Shellska discusses atheism worldwide and its demographics, and the work of Atheist Alliance International. Read more

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