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The European Court of Human Rights has recently taken another significant decision against tendencies of homophobia. A non-governmental group in Poland, the Foundation for Equality, had been denied permission to organise a demonstration in Warsaw on their “Equality Days” two years ago.

Even before BBC aired the highly anticipated documentary  9/11: The Conspiracy Files the conspiracy theorists were quick to put it down as a hit piece. The conspiracy theorists are convinced that the terrorists who crashed planes into the twin towers are to be found in the comfort of Washington DC, and not in deep caves in the Afghan mountains. As expected, BBC accepted the official version as to exactly what happened on that fateful day, and rejected the hypothesis put forward by Alex Jones and his inside-job club. But, BBC raised two  important question: Why did the Bush administration ignore warnings about the impending threats? Why is the government deliberately hiding information from the people?

By Justice-not-Vengeance

On Sunday 11 February, anonymous US officials presented roadside bombs, and components and fragments of bombs, and other weapons used by Iraqi insurgents, claiming that they had been manufactured in Iran and smuggled into Iraq on the orders of the highest levels of the Iranian Government.

By the Rev. Debra W. Haffner and Timothy Palmer

Two years ago, for a brief few months, marriage equality seemed like it would become a reality across the United States. In response to the 2003 decision in Massachusetts, brave local officials and clergy began performing wedding ceremonies from San Francisco to Oregon to tiny New Paltz, N.Y. 

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One comes from the United States. One comes from Egypt. Both are bloggers. Both are in prison for exercising their fundamental right to the freedom of speech.

We are so quick to criticize those Shiites who wreak revenge on the minority who persecuted them for so long. We publicly abhor sectarian violence that visits the hatreds and fears of the fathers onto their sons and onto future generations.

Genetic engineering is passé. Today, scientists aren't just mapping genomes and manipulating genes, they're building life from scratch — and they're doing it in the absence of societal debate and regulatory oversight. Dubbed "genetic engineering on steroids," the social, environmental and bio-weapons threats of synthetic biology surpass the possible dangers and abuses of biotech.