Peaceful protest against injustice can take many forms. Very common is the gathering of a group, walking in concert through the streets with banners and shouting paroles. Writing letters, discussing the issue, protest songs, satirical video clips, pamphlets, the list goes on and on.
Recently I came across one of my favorite forms of protest: the [...]
Last week the two Azerbaijan bloggers we blogged about, were convicted for hooliganism. Despite international pressure they were sentenced to an outrageous two and two and a half years in jail. (Go here for an excellent link list with various reactions and here if you want to take action.)
The verdict fits the impression that the Azerbaijan regime [...]
The trial around the kidnapping of the Egyptian imam Abu Omar has been concluded. See for a short update my post on Filip Spagnoli’s blog here.
Health care is both a complex and an emotional topic. On the one hand one life is all we have and as such it should be protected and nurtured but on the other hand each one of us is responsible for his own life, both in terms of rights and of consequences.
In this light I [...]
Two days ago Emin Milli turned thirty. He celebrated this in his prison cell, where he and his friend Adnan have been enjoying forced state hospitality ever since they were attacked by two muscle men (who were quickly released from custody).
Gibburt reported about this case last month.
The birthday of Emin Milli has not passed unnoticed: [...]
For a couple of months now, I have been thinking a lot about long and short term goals – and therewith, you could say, about purpose – which has attracted my attention to definitions of success. Fellow Gibburtian Robert had pointed out to me the very eloquently presented idea of Alain de Botton on this [...]
History would have looked different without mr. Joseph Stalin. Several massive events this man can write on his resume, like the Great Purge in the late thirties, during which at least 600,000 people where sentenced to death. And although quite considerable in number, this was just part of Stalin’s great labor: the Gulag camps, deathtraps [...]
No matter how many fancy internet applications become available to us, language barriers are still very real. As it was with the book I wanted to talk about today: People like us from Joris Luyendijk. Originally only released in Dutch, People like us (or in Dutch ‘Het zijn net mensen’) sold very well, but [...]
Today I published an article on the blog Homologous Legs about the everlasting discussion between evolution theory and Genesis. Please find the article here .
On October 4th 2001, a mere there weeks after 9/11, NATO invoked article 5 of the treaty for the first time in its history. Bluntly speaking, this article says that an attack on one is considered an attack on all.
In reality this meant that the US no longer stood alone in their wish to retaliate [...]
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