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A Morning Thought @ 2773

How Protesters Use Russia’s Courts To Denounce The War On Ukraine

People And Nature ☭ “I am using this trial as a tribune from which to denounce the war publicly”, Dmitry Ivanov told a Moscow court, just before it sentenced him to eight-and-a-half years’ imprisonment for circulating “fakes” about the Russian army.Ivanov was a maths student at Moscow State University. His “crime” was to write 12 anti-war posts on a student Telegram channel that he helped to set

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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 CuriousIsrael’s aid concessions merely offer Gazans survival on a leash‘Utter disaster’: Critics slam Starmer's use of Palestinian

Gaza 🪶 A Question Of Witness And Of The Heart

Mark Gray ✍ I almost gave up on this article. What was the point, given the enormous spreading bloodstain, erupting from Israel’s unrelenting onslaught on Gaza, seeping across West Asia? (‘The Middle East’ in deeply engrained Western colonial terminology.) What was the point in the face of conspicuous genocide complicity across Europe? What was the point, confronted by the United States’

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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 CuriousNSS-led coalition calls for parliamentary inquiry on circumcision'Concerns raised' about Sheffield priest accused of abuse -

A Morning Thought @ 2772

A Morning Thought @ 2771

Rising Of The Moon Unwelcome

Mike Burke 👅 Sinn Féin Press Release, 28 July 2025 🪶 Pa Daly Welcomes The Rising Of The Sun, Philip McGuigan Its Setting.If you’re not a daily visitor to Sinn Féin’s website, or if the site failed to verify that you’re human, you may have missed the latest news:Sinn Féin spokesperson for the Environment, Climate and Energy, Pa Daly TD, noted that the sun rose today at 6:03am. He said:I

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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 CuriousFor the First Time, Israeli Human Rights Groups Say Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, Call for International

Minding His P’s And Qanons 🪶 Donald Trump’s Epstein Travails. Have The Chickens Come Home To Roost?

Barry Gilheany ✍ Donald Trump’s back tracking from his promise to his MAGA base to release files relating to the death of the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has caused, in equal measure, consternation to his devoted followers and schadenfreude to his opponents who delight in seeing Trump hoist on this particular conspiracy petard – one of many conspiracies