An Interview with John Perkins, Secular Party of Australia
Scott Jacobsen interviews the President of the Secular Party of Australia, John Perkins, here.
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An Interview with Ariel Pontes — Chair of Americas Working Group
Scott Jacobsen interviews Ariel Pontes of IHEYO and its Americas Working Group.
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Religion: Death for Blasphemy Deserves Scorn
Contrary to the views of Owen Jones. if religions treat human life, freedom, fact and evidence with contempt, they deserve nothing but disparagement
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The Silver Lining to the Populist Cloud
The populist cloud which has descended lately has one silver lining. People are starting to really engage with the political process.
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An Interview with Alida Tomas – Founding Producer, Eighty Wings Productions
Alida Tomas founded Eighty Wings Productions. She is a comedian, commentator, and producer. Here she talks to Conatus News about some of her work.
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How Should We Judge Ayaan Hirsi Ali?
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.
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Unfortunately 100 is Small Pickings for Ramzan Kadyrov
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. […]
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Online Hate Speech and Sexual Threats- How Women can Fight Back
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 […]
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Reflections on the Gender Pay Gap
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 […]
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Stop Telling Secular Western Women to be Quiet
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 […]
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