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The problem with teaching ‘British values’ in school

By The Conversation: Carol Vincent, UCL and Myriam Hunter-Henin, UCL Amanda Spielman, head of Ofsted, claims British values are being “actively perverted” by religious extremists. In a recent speech, she suggests extremists are using schools to: Narrow young people’s horizons,…

Love of the Good and Love of Neighbor: Celebrating UN World Interfaith Harmony Week

It was a Saturday afternoon, usually the busiest day of the week in Metro Manila. Streets were jammed as people went about their weekend activities and chores. Amidst the hustle and bustle, a motley group of people braved the traffic…

How the Pentagon Papers came to be published by the Beacon Press told by Daniel Ellsberg & others

Published in July 2013 by Democracy Now! Forty-one years ago, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the U.S. government for publishing the first full edition of the Pentagon Papers. It is now well known how…

The nonviolent revolution is beginning to become a value

We found very interesting an article published in the section of Science, Education and Technology by El País, written by José L. Álvarez Cedena which highlights the initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known as MIT, and specifically…

USA: the Liberal/Progressive/Left Has Destroyed Itself

It  took just one 4 page memo to annihilate 18 months of relentless, inexorable, nonstop lies. The Dems idiot plan has backfired making Trump more powerful than ever. Was Russiagate the Deep State’s conspiracy against Trump or the Deep State’s…

Women’s vote: 100 years and a long way to go

The UK celebrates on Feb 6th 100 years since the Representation of the People Act 1918 gave the vote to (some) women in Britain, those over the age of 30 and meeting certain property qualifications. It also gave the right to…

Gene Sharp — the lonely scholar who became a nonviolent warrior

By George Lakey February 1, 2018 Once again I rang the bell at the brick row house in East Boston where Gene Sharp lived. When he opened the door I said proudly, “Today I drove here instead of taking the…

The Stateless of the Union: Trump’s War on Immigrants

President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. It was to be his clarion call to bipartisanship. Instead, under the guise of a compromise position on the fate of nearly 800,000 DACA (Deferred Action for…

The US has military bases in 80 countries. All of them must close.

US bases are wreaking havoc to the health and well-being of communities across the world. By Alice Slater originally published in The Nation, here. On the weekend of Martin Luther King Day, Baltimore University fittingly hosted more than 200 activists in…

Almost 50 years of equal pay legislation – but the waiting continues for women

Tricia Dawson, Keele University for The Conversation It will take 217 years for women to achieve equal pay, at the current rate, according to the World Economic Forum. So we can expect many more stories of women earning far less…

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