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Brexit as a reality offers fresh British-European-Humanist opportunities

Instability is a prime condition for deep changes to take place in any situation and what determines how everything moves is primarily determined by the stronger forces impinging on that situation. As the orthodox forces are pretty much balanced, as…

We are making a difference and we will carry on

To see solutions to the overall problems facing various societies today we need to look beyond the systems that are in place today, mostly in westernised and imposed forms. I say western because largely that’s the most fast moving and…

NATO Threatens Europe With Annihilation

NATO is supposed to be a defensive alliance, whose purpose is to “protect Europe from aggression”; but today it is aggressive tool of the United States. Today NATO is threatening to drive Europe into an all-destroying thermonuclear war with Russia.…

The Orlando Massacre can’t be Reduced to Guns

The instinctive response to get rid of the guns is understandable–but as Danny Katch explains, there’s much more to a mass murder spree like Orlando than access to guns. AFTER THE massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, there was…

UK Referendum: reject xenophobia and vote for solidarity and remain in the EU

In less than a week, the population of the United Kingdom will vote in a referendum to decide whether the country will REMAIN in or LEAVE the European Union.  The campaign has been bitterly fought with the governing Conservative Party,…

CRISPR: The Editing of Human Genes

WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2016 presents Groundbreaking Discoveries to the Public – CRISPR: The Editing of Human Genes By Gabriela Jurosz-Landa Groundbreaking scientific discoveries have shaped the way we see the world. Nobody today will doubt, that the world is round;…

Orlando

A decade ago, Michael Moore’s film Bowling for Columbine highlighted the issue of guns in the US in the most precise and documented way. With clever camerawork and extensive reporting, by examining factors such as poverty and unemployment, by documenting how easily…

A critique of human society since the neolithic revolution

  There is a long history of social critics and progressive thinkers offering critiques of human society. Among those who are better known, Karl Marx offered a critique of capitalism, anarchists have critiqued the state, Mohandas K. Gandhi offered a…

Sharmin Sadequee on Face 2 Face

On this show we discussed with Sharmin Sadequee, about being Muslim in the U.S., the extension of a law called “providing material support for terrorism” and about her worked with the Bangladeshi community requesting Political Asylum. More links: Facebook:  Justice…

New Cold War between Russia and the West?

George Orwell, the author of “Animal Farm” and “1984”, was the first person to use the phrase “Cold War” in a 1945 newspaper article, written just after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He argued that “the surface of…

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