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Nothing Has Changed In Turkey In Two Decades ✑ Support The Prisoners

Alex McCrory and friends ✒ urge support for protesting Turkish political prisoners facing death in the country's jails.In 2001-2002 a Republican delegation travelled to Turkey to visit the Death Fast houses in a poor neighbourhood situated on the banks of the Bosphorus River. What we witnessed motivated us to organise a campaign on behalf of the Turkish death fasters. The highlight of the

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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, Let Us At Least Be Curious'Textbook definition of genocide': Experts warn as Putin announces 'necessary cleansing' of RussiaThe truth about Ukraine's far-Right militiasFormer US

Predominance 15

Christopher Owens 🎵 “Look around at the hip people set in their ways/Reaching back to the things they used to say they hate/Young old brats playing fossil rock/Pistols reunions pass for rebellion/Radio and TV gettin' to damn bland with collegiate boy Neil Young copy bands/Underground's becoming an alternative joke/Even Aerosmith hates all the Aerosmith clones.” 🎸 Lard.Horns up.With the glorious

A Morning Thought @ 1378

Rights Commission Says Free Speech Needs Restricting Due To Racism

Matt Treacy ✒ It is fitting, given that five of its 15 members have a direct personal involvement in the legal system, that the first item to jump out from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission’s latest missive on racism and discrimination is a clarion call for “the need to extend access to Legal aid for people facing discrimination.”This might be completely appropriate given that there

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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, Let Us At Least Be CuriousVladimir Putin addresses rally in Moscow as Russian troops continue assaultPutin Warns Russian People of Hardship, pro-Western 'traitors' and scumPat

No More Arms For Ukrainian Azov Nazis

Caoimhin O’Muraile ☭ Anybody who has even a fleeting knowledge of Nazi Germany will know that the SS started off as a small elite bodyguard for Adolf Hitler. The main street activists of the Nazi Party, the ones who fought on the streets, were the low intelligence but very aggressive Brown Shirts or SA. It was then, as now, the inability of the Left opposition to the Nazis including the Communist

A Morning Thought @ 1377

Neither Washington Nor Moscow

Mick Hall ☭ No country would sit easy if they had a hostile and powerful foreign military alliance hunkered down near their borders.But that doesn't absolve those in the Kemlin who marched its military into the Ukraine recklessly, egotistically, and foolishly.However what was Zelenskyy thinking when he tied his country's apron strings to the USA (and it's Nato allies) when historically their word