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I’m not opposed to using Biblical or otherwise religious themes to set the basis for a story; I admit that I have grown quite attached to the new NBC series ‘Kings’ even though it’s basically a modern retelling of the story of David (except that Goliath is a tank…) and was quite disappointed after learning [...]
The Young Turks (TYT) is a burgeoning American independent news and views organization. With their daily, even-handed, candid, insightful and humourous coverage of various issues across the political spectrum, TYT’s YouTube channel has amassed a massive following. They are a demonstration of the sort of standard that major news media does not live up to. [...]
In his book The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things, Barry Glassner discusses how Americans have become unnecessarily fearful of many things, thanks in good part to opportunistic politicians, single-minded advocacy groups, sensationalist news media, “news magazine” programming and so on. Such irrational fear complexes can do profound and unjustified [...]
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“Freedom of thought,” says the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville, “is the only good more important than peace. Without it, peace would be another word for servility.” This is the basis for the first amendment in the American constitution; itself formulated from the thoughts from the man who perhaps coined the term “United States [...]
Vatican City has joined Iran this week as one of only a handful of modern nation-states to draw international condemnation for support of Holocaust denial, a historical revisionism that denies that Jews were murdered in Nazi gas chambers during the 1930s and 40s. The decision started off as pure ecclesiastical procedure: Pope Benedict XVI, aka [...]
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