Rebutter’s Rebuttal: The Next Big Thing Is Here. But Ahh But Ahh…Is It?
By Mike Sutton.
Rarely should we make predictions about what will and will not shape the future of mankind, because society is a chaotic system with so many known unknowns and unknown unknowns that something as likely as not changes the course [...]
Zombie Cops Plague US, UK and Canadian Police Services
A Most Embarrassing British Supermyth is Bust
By Mike Sutton. Britain has been in the international news quite a lot recently. Not least for the involvement of some of its citizens and big businesses in unethical scandals. We’ve had [...]
Mob Wives of Chicago – A Ballet of Guilt
By Christine Axsmith.
Whenever you have a “Wives of” show, it is usually a parade of untreated alcoholics. Mob Wives of Chicago is no different. The big difference is that no one on this show is a mob wife. They are mob daughters.
The [...]
MBC brings Multicultural Panic to Korea
By Robert Kelly.
Xenophobia so sloppy and racist, Glenn Beck himself would blush…
I came late to this controversy, but it merits some quick comment given just how creepy the above vid is.
This ‘report’ was shown in primetime on [...]
European Union: The truth about Credit Rating Agencies and speculators
By Protesilaos Stavrou.
“Ban Credit Rating Agencies!” is the kind of call we hear every time there is a downgrade of the creditworthiness of an ailing Euro zone economy. Uttered by demagogues or other “socially conscious” [...]
The Antiswan On Unpredictable Weather, Crime and What Is and Is Not So
By Mike Sutton.
Karl Popper essentially falsified the inductive method of determining what is so. Induction is a now debunked methodology, which once held sway as orthodoxy in the 19th century, comprising the idea that knowledge about something [...]
Russia: College Education in Distress
By Masha Egupova.
Is Education the Key? by Bohman on FLickr
Education is something many people seek and work hard to get. They believe that school competitions, student loans and best grades will give them better chances for a good job and [...]
Picture from Genocide of Muslims or Tsunami?
By Nima Ch.
Two Iranian websites have (re)published heart breaking pictures of supposedly Muslim genocide in Burmese. I stress that this shall only show how the propaganda machines of Islamic Republic of Iran are working. It has nothing to do [...]
Squeeze the Producer: America’s “Statist” Quo
By Daniella M. Augenstein.
Applause and cheers of “yes!” and “that’s right!” echoed throughout the venue in Roanoke, Virginia on Friday as President Barack Obama spoke to hundreds about the deficit, cutting spending, the golden years [...]
CM Punjab A show Off
By Adnan Aamir Sarparrah.
Chief Minister(Cm) Punjab, Shehbaz Sharif and self-proclaimed Khadim-e-Aala(Chief Servant) has been doing unique protests. He has setup a camp office in the lawn of Minar-Pakistan in Iqbal Park Lahore in order to protest [...]
Kenyan sex workers: signs of progress
By Arjen Westra.
Yes, being in Kenya is great. But for me, it is not for the obvious reasons: not the safari’s, it’s not only the beautiful nature less than 30 minutes outside Nairobi. Europeans tend to think that when you live in Kenya, [...]
Aba Monsour al Amriki: Alabama Man Becomes Jihadist in al Shabab in Somalia
By Christine Axsmith.
Aba Monsour Al Amrikiwaswas born and raised in Alabama as a Southern Baptist. In 2006, he went to Somalia to join al Shabab, a radical and violent Islamic group.
His role in the group was to create recruiting videos for [...]
Unpopular Sanctions’ Effect on a Pro-American Country
By Nima Ch.
Are sanctions breaking the backs of the poor? … Or is it the mismanagements of Iran’s government? And … wasn’t it the Iranian foreign policy which caused the west to impose sanctions against Iran? Yes, undoubtedly [...]
Latest EU deal is the first step to debt mutualization and federalization
By Protesilaos Stavrou.
The latest European Council meeting of June 28-29 must be considered a minor success since on one hand it did make progress in areas where solutions are desperately needed due to the absence of essential institutions [...]
Article 7′s “democratic principles” and the National Rally of Independents (RNI)
By Samia Errazzouki.
To begin analyzing the state of a specific political party in Morocco, one should begin by considering the role of political parties vis-a-vis the monarchy. How significant is the role of a political party in a country where [...]
Is higher inflation in Germany a way to help Greece?
By Protesilaos Stavrou.
Often we come across the argument that one of the ways for Greece in particular and the eurozone’s periphery in general to overcome the crisis is for Germany to tolerate high inflation. The idea is that if there [...]
Has The Zionist Inquisition Come to These Shores?
By Miko Peled.
According to a report published Feb 7, 2012 by The Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, titled “Terrorism in the Decade Since 9/11,” written by Charles Kurzman, – Muslims in the US pose “a minuscule [...]
Arizona Immigration Ruling~Direct Assault on State Sovereignty
Kris Anne Hall.
Never has a ruling by the Supreme Court been more aptly titled as an “Opinion,” because that is exactly what Justice Kennedy and his cohorts have delivered in Arizona v. United States. It is nothing more than an open display [...]
Is Speech in the US Still Free?
By Daniella Augenstein.
U.S. Citizens and non-citizens alike often take the First Amendment for granted. We do not always think about it; but when we do, most of us believe that it will always be there. We act on that assumption every day. We [...]
Is the UK Home Office facilitating a myth about fear of crime?
By Mike Sutton.
Counter-intuitively, it is not a myth that earwigs enter human ears, or that ants may get into your pants, but it is very unlikely to happen to you inside your home or while walking about outside. Hence, we tend to say that [...]