GibburtUpdate: Abu Omar rendition trial ends
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.
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.
In our ‘A salute’ guest series from Robert L. Peters, please find below the next installment about psychologist Abraham Maslow.
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‘A salute: Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)’
by Robert L. Peters
Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist noted for his conceptualization of a “hierarchy of human needs”—today he is considered the founder of humanistic psychology. Born into [...]
Today I published an article on the blog Homologous Legs about the everlasting discussion between evolution theory and Genesis. Please find the article here .
Philosopher Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography—his massive volume Essais (translated literally as “Attempts”) contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written.
Emma Goldman, a political activist who played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century, was born 140 years ago in Kovno (now Kaunas). An outspoken writer and lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women’s rights, and social issues, Goldman was imprisoned several times after emigrating to the [...]
Yesterday I published an article on Filip Spagnoli’s P.A.P. blog about the ‘extraordinary rendition’ (or in more down-to-earth language: kidnapping) of Abu Omar, an Italian based imam who was grabbed from the streets of Milan to be transported to an Egyptian jail. Please find the article here.