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Ukraine ✑ ‘Condemn Russia’s Imperialist Threat’

People And Nature ✒ Ukrainian socialists are urging international unity against the Russian government’s imperialist policies that threaten a new war.Simon PiraniThe Social Movement, a group of mainly labour activists in Ukraine, calls in a statement for “solidarity with people who have suffered from the war that has lasted almost eight years, and who may suffer from a new one”.The statement

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Hundred And Twenty Six

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 Unvaccinated 14 Times More Likely to Die From CovidPrince Andrew 'shell-shocked' as Queen strips him of all military titlesRicky Gervais calls Pope

Could Putin Be Boris’s - And Unionism’s - Political Saviour?

Dr John Coulter ✒ With Russian boss Vladimir Putin set to invade the Ukraine, could even limited military action by the Kremlin provide seriously under-fire British PM Boris Johnson with a much-needed escape route to avoid the troubled Tory from having to quit Number 10? It could also serve as a potential ace card for Unionism should yet another Tory administration decide to politically stab the

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Heavy Gang

Anthony McIntyre  ✒ The three part RTÉ documentary Crimes and Confessions focusing on a group of Garda torturers known as the Heavy Gang is worth the watching.For the uninitiated, people who think police fighting criminals rather than police being criminals, the viewing may prove unsettling.The first in the series was about those tortured and wrongly convicted after the murder of Una Lynskey in

Former Pope Benedict XVI Failed To Act On Four Cases Of Sexual Abuse, Report Finds

Sky News ➖ Former pope Benedict XVI failed to act on four cases of sexual abuse when he was archbishop of Munich, a report has found.The report, compiled by a German law firm, found that the pope - then called Josef Ratzinger - could be "accused of misconduct" over his handling of the cases.Ratzinger, 93, has lived in the Vatican since the end of his papacy in 2013, but he was archbishop of

Burning The Witch

New Humanist ✒ Across the globe, thousands are accused of witchcraft and killed each year. How can the violence be halted?  Miranda ForsythAccording to the Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network, there have been over 20,000 victims of accusations of witchcraft and related harmful practices over the last decade, spread across 60 countries. The research, published in November 2020,

Report ✑ Politicians Use Religion To Restrict Reproductive Rights

National Secular Society ✒ Politicians around the world are using religion to restrict reproductive rights, a recent report has found.Welcome to Gilead: pronatalism and the threat to reproductive rights warns "extremist, religious, nationalist currents" leading to clampdowns on reproductive rights in countries like Poland are "spreading across the globe".The report, published by Population

Run, Devil, Run

Right Wing Watch ✒ Bianca Garcia Vows to Take Her ‘Rightful Place’ in the Texas Senate and ‘Make the Devil Run’.Kyle Mantyla |The traveling cavalcade of various election, Covid-19, and QAnon conspiracy theorists who have been gathering in churches around the country every month for the last year as part of The ReAwaken America Tour stopped in Phoenix, Arizona, last weekend. Among the speakers at