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Better enforcement of existing regulations on hate speech and content that incites fear and violence against minority groups is urgently needed, says Yasin, Imam and Director at the Bournemouth Islamic Centre. Responding to the Punish a Muslim Day letter that was sent around recently in various parts of the United...

I’m Not Racist But…

The following represents what is wrong with those who don't stop and think. No recognition of the carnage many Brits have reeked abroad and at home. An admission that voting for Brexit and the Tory party is based upon anger (often irrational it appears). Make your own mind up. "So tonight...
Seriously, you need to read the letter from Corb's lawyers to Ben BRADLEY Tory MP. He thought that just by deleting the tweet (as soon as he was told to by Corbyn's lawyers) he had got away with it, but oh no indeedy. Oh no, no, no, no, no....
In the three months since Internet monopoly Google announced plans to keep users from accessing “fake news,” the global traffic rankings of a broad range of left-wing, progressive, anti-war and democratic rights organizations have fallen significantly. On April 25, 2017, Google announced that it had implemented changes to its search...
If you genuinely desire to understand the topic then this debate is a must watch and then hopefully the invocation of discussion/debate. 'In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Sir Paul Collier, the former head of Development Research at the World Bank, author of Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism, and professor...
It can seem glib to compare the current era to the 1930s. There are parallels, with the rise of nationalism and the free press under attack, but we are a long way away from Nazi-style totalitarianism returning to the West. Nonetheless today’s journalists can learn much from the way our predecessors...
Let's talk Smart Meters. The campaign has started in earnest, both the Energy Companies and the Government want us to have these nasty little devices, all of us, in our homes, factories and offices. All the hype and propaganda is being rolled out about the benefits to all of us,...
To underscore this essential Disney law, narrative resolution in each film defends and reinforces the status quo. Nothing is resolved until the preferred social order is in place. No one lives happily ever after until the chosen one rules... In contrast, villains–who almost exclusively exhibit antisocial behavior and violence–suffer...
How did a Turkish Arab become adored by the far right and nationalists in the UK? How did a fairy tale (folk story) become the foundation for demanding a national holiday; propaganda by populist politicians and waving a flag with a red cross on it? There are a number of versions...
Noam Chomsky, the distinguished American philosopher, political activist, and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has compiled a list of the ten most powerful and effective strategies resorted to by the agendas “hidden” to establish a manipulation of the population through the media. Thanks to...