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Afghan Women Face Increasing Violence and Repression under the Taliban after International Spotlight Fades

Afghan Women Face Increasing Violence and Repression under the Taliban after International Spotlight Fades

Mia Bloom Georgia State University Mia Bloom is Professor at Georgia State University. She conducts ethnographic field research in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia and speaks eight languages. The Taliban reportedly captured 40 people in Mazar-e-Sharif, a medium-sized city in Afghanistan, at the end of January 2022. Taliban

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The Canadians on the Bridge

Alexander Brown brownstone.org Alexander Brown is a writer and political scientist living in Toronto, Canada. He is a Director at the National Citizens Coalition. It was a grey, bitter-cold day in January, and all the clocks were striking thirteen. On the radio, the host was hectoring about “concerning scenes”

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Attack of the Transphobic Putin-Nazi Truckers!

CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com Novelist, playwright, political satirist Information Satire They rolled up on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill like one of the plagues in the Book of Revelations, honking their infernal air horns, the grills of their tractors grinning demonically, the sides of their dry vans painted with blasphemies

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It’s Official COVID is Over in Sweden!

It’s Official COVID is Over in Sweden!

Sebastian Rushworth M.D. sebastianrushworth.com I work as a junior physician in Stockholm, Sweden. I studied medicine at the Karolinska Institute and graduated in January 2020. I am a proponent of evidence-based medicine. In other words, I think that medical diagnosis and treatment should be guided by the scientific

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Nanaia Mahuta – Nobel Prize Prospect

Nanaia Mahuta – Nobel Prize Prospect

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week or so back Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta issued a warning to Putin re invading the Ukraine. I’ve waited to see if it worked.  Well, it certainly appears to have done as ever since the Russians have issued appeasement noises. Putin suffers from

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Hindu-Muslim Tensions Rise in India

As BFD readers are probably aware, I’m not exactly a fan of Islam — at least, its shouty, stabby, blowy-uppy zealots. But I’m not a fan of shouty, blowy-uppy zealots of any creed. When you talk about destruction, you can count me right out. And when it’s Muslims

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Five Freedoms: Julie Ponesse’s Speech to the Trucker Convoy

Brownstone Institute   brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Dr. Julie Ponesse was a professor of ethics who has taught at Ontario’s Huron

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The BFD Nightcap

The BFD Nightcap

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7 Spaniards Who Were Euthanised Last Year Donated Their Organs

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. ¡Ay, caramba! that didn’t take long, did it? Spain legalised euthanasia on June 25 last year and already transplant surgeons are busy removing organs from euthanised patients. According to a report in the Spanish magazine Redaccíon Médica, seven

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I’m a Canadian of Colour, a Professor, and I Support the Truckers

Cornelius Christian   brownstone.org Cornelius Christian is an associate professor of economics at Brock University in St. Catharines, ON. My research interests include Economic History, Political Economy, and Development Economics. The trucker convoy is a racist movement composed of white high-school dropouts who deface statues and abuse war memorials. This

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Trudeau Is Playing with Fire

Laura Rosen Cohen brownstone.org Laura Rosen Cohen is a Toronto writer. Her work has been featured in The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report, The Canadian Jewish News and Newsweek among others. She is a special needs parent and also a

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Canadian Media Stick To the Script

Canadian Media Stick To the Script

Have you heard about the Honkening? Possibly you haven’t, because the term is only just becoming attached to Canada’s massive trucker protest. If it was up to the mainstream media, you wouldn’t even hear about that. Stuff has just one story on the protest. Australia’s ABC

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