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Book review: ISIS: A History

April 24, 2017 | by Daniel J. Levy | 0 Comments

Plenty has been written about the Islamic State since 2014, but the second edition of Fawaz Gerges’ profile of the group is particularly worthwhile. “ISIS: A History” tracks the group’s evolution from its early incarnation of Al Qaeda in Iraq, up until the present day. Gerges examines the marginalisation of Iraqi Sunnis under Nouri […] Read more

An Interview with John Perkins, Secular Party of Australia

April 24, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

Scott Jacobsen interviews the President of the Secular Party of Australia, John Perkins, here. Read more

An Interview with Ariel Pontes — Chair of Americas Working Group

April 21, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

Scott Jacobsen interviews Ariel Pontes of IHEYO and its Americas Working Group. Read more

Religion: Death for Blasphemy Deserves Scorn

April 18, 2017 | by Leo Igwe | 0 Comments

Contrary to the views of Owen Jones. if religions treat human life, freedom, fact and evidence with contempt, they deserve nothing but disparagement Read more

The Silver Lining to the Populist Cloud

April 15, 2017 | by Joe James Davis | 0 Comments

The populist cloud which has descended lately has one silver lining. People are starting to really engage with the political process. Read more

An Interview with Alida Tomas – Founding Producer, Eighty Wings Productions

April 15, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

Alida Tomas founded Eighty Wings Productions. She is a comedian, commentator, and producer. Here she talks to Conatus News about some of her work. Read more

How Should We Judge Ayaan Hirsi Ali?

April 14, 2017 | by CNLifestyle | 0 Comments

Irrespective of whether you agree or disagree with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, she has lived and experienced a world that her critics, by and large, have not. Read more

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

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

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

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