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News From Ukraine 💣 Bulletin 125

A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 9-December-2024. In this week’s bulletin⬤ “Intersection of the peripheries” discussion.⬤ What Ukrainian polling on peace talks means. ⬤ Miners’ leader interviewed.⬤ Dniprorude Mayor tortured to death.⬤ Digital warfare.⬤ Persecution of journalists.⬤ Manipulation of children and their forcible transfer to Russia.News from the territories

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Out Now 📚 Mike Cronin & Mark Duncan

Merrion Press 🔖has just published a new book by Mike Cronin & Mark Duncan.  

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Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be Curious'They Need To Be Killed': Joel Webbon Says Anyone Trying To Cross The Border Must Be ShotOklahoma's new social studies standards

‘Paskar’s Action Was Driven By Anti-War Ideals’

People And Nature ☭ The human rights organisation Memorial has recognised Igor Paskar as a political prisoner. 26-November-2024This is the legal reasoning set out on the Memorial / Support Political Prisoners site. Read Igor Paskar’s story here.The investigators considered Igor Paskar’s arson an act of terrorism due to the following attributes:🟌 intimidation of the population;🟌 

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Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousMired in Bereavement and Disaster, Israel Has Been BlindedIsrael bombs Kamal Adwan Hospital, demands immediate evacuation‘My hands

Time For Churches To Reclaim Christmas From Xmas!

Dr John Coulter ✍ Apart from some school Nativity plays about the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ, would the Ireland of 2024 know the real meaning of Christmas? In many cases, Christ as literally been removed from the traditional festive greeting to be replaced with the slogan - Merry Xmas! Of course, many liberal theologians will argue that the X in Xmas is symbolic of the name

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Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousChief Constable Jon Boutcher comments on the Investigatory Powers Tribunal Judgment“Está Cabrón”: An End-of-Year Reflection on a

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On Men and Abortion 🪶An Interview with Clinic Director Claire Keyes

Valerie Tarico ✏ The piece below was written  for Washington Initiative for Boys and Men.14-November-2024 We are extremely honored to have been entrusted with publishing these reflections from Claire Keyes, former director of Allegheny Reproductive Health Center, and Christine Charbonneau, former CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest.‘Men who came to our clinic had the same