His brash language is toned down, and the rictus grin of the shiny reality TV star replaced with a sort of cock-eyed mask of sympathy. But the tactics he’s using […]
Source: BBC Ever so slowly and flanked by the Swiss Guard the leader of the world’s pre-eminent superpower walked through the Vatican to meet the leader of one of the world’s pre-eminent religions. And were there ever two more different people? Pope Francis with just the merest hint of a […]
Source: The Daily Beast Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in his country’s south on Wednesday before cutting a visit to Moscow short to rush home and deal with a terrorist siege. Militants linked to the self-proclaimed Islamic State reportedly took over a hospital, jail, and other buildings overnight, […]
Source: The Daily Beast. In Rome, there was that awkward moment Wednesday morning when the first lady stood rather uncomfortably dressed in black with her dark mantilla veil on her head in the grandiose corridor of the Apostolic Palace as her husband met with Pope Francis for 29 minutes behind […]
Source: Stratfor After four months in office, U.S. President Donald Trump is beginning to hone his policy on the Middle East. As the weeks have worn on, his priorities for the region have started to emerge, and for the most part they seem to be focused on matters of security. […]
Source: Dawn THE obscenely opulent reception arranged in Donald Trump’s honour, with Arab autocrats lining up to pay homage to the American president, forgetting his inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric and his likening of the Saudi royal family to ‘slaveholders’ in the past, did not come as a surprise. Nor did the […]
Source: Dawn IN a recent address, Chaudhry Nisar hit out at political opponents by classifying them as ‘secular’ and equating the term with ‘non-believing’. Clearly, the interior minister needs tuition in history and political philosophy. There is no simple thing, place or peoples called the ‘secular’, the ‘religious’, the ‘West’, ‘good’ […]
While the current Republican leadership in Congress is working to make rich people richer while taking away health care access and vital programs for the poor, Democrats can still try and pass resolutions that carry symbolic weight. Rep. Jamie Raskin has just introduced H.Res. 349 which calls for the “global repeal of blasphemy, heresy, and […]
President Trump may be a buffoon, but a President Pence would bring ruin upon the nation and turn the U.S. into a Christian theocracy. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/05/warning-president-pence-worse-president-trump/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=BRSS&utm_campaign=Nonreligious&utm_content=367 As Trump’s troubles continue to grow, conservatives and liberals alike are wrestling with the very real possibility that Trump will be forced out of office […]
NPR interview of the author above Book review from Amazon Book Written by Thomas M. Nichols People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology […]
“I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting and complete silence where hundreds of men have been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as […]
Source: Time BY Lisa Marie Segarra Parts of Antarctica are starting to see more greenery as temperatures rise, a new study says. “We identified significant changepoints in all sites and proxies, […]
Source: Time By Marcia Dunn / AP (CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — Spacewalking astronauts made urgent repairs at the International Space Station on Tuesday, three days after a critical relay box abruptly […]
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Source: BBC By Richard Gray With soft, nimble fingers, an arm stretches out to delicately pluck an apple from a shelf and place it gently into a basket. In this […]
Source: BBC A hacking group closely tied to North Korea was behind the massive WannaCry attack earlier this month, security company Symantec says. The way the attack was set up […]
Source: BBC Salman Abedi has been named by police as the suspected suicide bomber who killed 22 people and injured 59 at Manchester Arena on Monday night. The 22-year-old was […]
Source: The Economist A new law in Belgium shows why disputes over faith-based slaughter touch a sensitive nerve THERE are some religious-freedom arguments where even the time-honoured principle of “live […]
Source: The Guardian It happened in history class. Heraa Hashmi, a 19-year-old American Muslim student at the University of Colorado, was supposed to be discussing the Crusades with the man […]
Transcript of the talk Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Tom Ricks says the writings of Winston Churchill and George Orwell still resonate today. Ricks also discusses the generals serving in the Trump […]