Has Israel’s national psyche abandoned morality and turned genocide into entertainment? Sul Nowroz / Real Media* It is rare for a state to lose its mind, to lose the ability to discern right from wrong, good from bad, righteousness from wickedness, but that condition appears to have taken […]
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Multiculturalism: between unity and diversity
There also needs to be more recognition of the rights of the individual within traditional cultures. I want to examine the key issue of how to establish a balance of diversity and unity. Too much diversity, and society will fragment; too much unity and we have a closed society. How […]
Reflecting on homosexuality and dogmas
The social and political discourse against equality of rights between heterosexual and homosexual couples refers to homosexual practice as “unnatural”, if not quoting religious dogma. Has there been a reduction of homosexuality in the world driven by the lack of rights that homosexuals have? Do they “correct” the unnatural side […]
Looking at North Korea
Nearly all of our world has been mapped by Google and although that includes North Korea this still leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to the most steadfastly secretive country on Earth. Sean Sheehan What we think we know about the place seems to be […]
From defamation on social media networks to actual suicide
Two weeks before Christmas, Flavio came home from university in São Paulo, had lunch with his parents and locked himself in his room. At 2:30 a.m., the intercom in the flat woke his parents. Frei Betto The doorman told them he would come up to talk to them. […]