Month: June 2018

British Musician On Trial For Holocaust Revsionist YouTube Postings

Press Association reported yesterday on the trial in Britain of musician Alison Chabloz who is charged with sending grossly offensive Holocaust Revisionist material on a public communications network.  Chabloz, who is being tried in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court, is charged with 5 counts...

Consent Decree Settles Louisiana Religion In Schools Lawsuit

Last week, a Louisiana federal district court approved a consent decree (full text) in Cole v. Webster Parish School Board, (WD LA, May 11, 2018).  The suit charged that the school district extensively promoted Christianity in its schools. (See prior posting.)  The consent decree bars prayers at...

Turkey and Poland: two nations paralysed by rightwing populism | Ece Temelkuran

Our two nations can feel solidarity in how our revolutions turned into authoritarianism. Is there hope for us? Of course“A true patriot of her country and Europe.” This is how I was described during the Ambassador of New Europe award ceremony speech at the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk,...

‘I woke up and didn’t recognise my wife’

‘I woke up and didn’t recognise my wife’

Adam and Raquel Gonzales had been together for five years when he woke up with amnesia. Could they fall in love all over again? Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-44155458

Trump, crabs and the missing foreign workers

Trump, crabs and the missing foreign workers

Businesses forced to close because they can't find staff urge the president to let more Mexicans in. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44321649