Category: World

Md. Sazzadul Hoque: A Call for Help for an Inhumane Persecution

October 17, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
Md. Sazzadul Hoque, a Bangladeshi blogger, human rights defender, and online activist, is in trouble. He is a member of the Humane First Movement and the founder of penman.in. Here is his current status. For activist work and writing, Hoque has suffered on a number of levels, including receiving death threats. In 2017, he was […] Read more

Asia Bibi’s Final Hearing is Tomorrow. Don’t Let Her Be Executed

October 7, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
Tomorrow, Asia Bibi has one final chance to prove her innocence, or be sentenced to death. The world must scream in her defense. Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman accused of blasphemy in 2009, is scheduled for her final appeal against execution on Monday. Bibi was accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammad after a dispute […] Read more

Yemen’s Potential Baha’i Executions Mirror Revolutionary Iran

September 19, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
International pressure stopped Iran’s executions of Baha’is in the 1980s. Today, it can do the same thing for Baha’is in Yemen. The world must not let another teenage girl die. The date was June 18, 1983. A seventeen-year-old girl was publically hung in the middle of a polo field in Shiraz, Iran, during the night. […] Read more

For a New Left – The Unfree Market of Capitalism

September 18, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
The free market of capitalism is unfree for labour, since fair exchange depends on equality, and will require an international movement to fully dismantle. It has been suggested that the call for a basic income and land value tax, something which I consider to be a ‘starter kit’ for securing our rights and freedoms, constitutes […] Read more

The Solipsism Of Identity Politics

September 18, 2018 | by | 1 Comments
Taken to its logical conclusion, identity politics is solipsistic in nature, diminishing understanding of the world beyond the self. To fully understand marginalisation, one needs to have experienced marginalisation first-hand. This assumption is increasingly fundamental to today’s practice of identity politics, evident in the higher credence that many people claim ought to be afforded to […] Read more

Is a Borderless World Viable?

September 9, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
A world less constrained by borders is not just a pipedream but a viable reality the world should strive for, argues Vladan Lausevic. Is it possible for humanity to live in a borderless world? The answer is yes, partly because we, to a degree, are already living in such a world. To answer the question […] Read more