Glen ScrivenerThe Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress and EqualityThe Good Book Company, UK, 2022ISBN-13: 978-1784987497 “[T]The strength of Scrivener’s book lies not so much in the arguments it presents – many of them can be found elsewhere – but in the engagingRead More →
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the US Congress via video to ask for support on March 16.J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press Hamida Ghafour is the author of The Sleeping Buddha: Afghanistan’s Story Through the Eyes of One Family. She has lived and reported extensively in Europe, the Middle East and SouthRead More →
Vladimir Putin’s brutal and cruel war against the Ukrainian people is completely unjustified. It is entirely appropriate, and even necessary, for us here in Canada and in other western countries to oppose this war. We are right to support the Ukrainians by all reasonable means that do not expand theRead More →
Readers should applaud Aditya Chakrabortty’s article (Western values? They enthroned the monster bombarding Ukrainians today, March 17). The West’s failure to support Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms and defend reality led to the cataclysmic implosion of the Soviet Union and prevented the more gradual constitutional changes that would have provided stability. TheRead More →
Six days after Vladimir Putin ordered his soldiers into Ukraine, Joe Biden gave his first State of the Union Address. His focus was inevitable. “While it wouldn’t have taken something so terrible for people around the world to see what’s at stake, now everyone sees it clearly,” the US presidentRead More →
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent shockwaves of uncertainty to its western neighbour. If Putin ultimately wins, it’s unclear what vestiges of Western freedoms would remain intact. But one thing is clear: the rights of the country’s LGBTQ+ population would come under fire. While not an international leader in advancingRead More →
ISLAMABAD: Governance in India under Hindutva ideology has shifted from recognizing diversity in its legal and economic frameworks to a model that delegitimizes diversity as ‘non-Indian’ and ‘Western’ values with no place in it. India. This was stated by Dr. Muhammad Mujeeb Afzal at a conference organized by the InstituteRead More →
The move is the latest in the country’s attempts to find sources of income other than oil and attract foreign investment. Under the new film screening standards, the UAE Media Regulatory Authority will introduce a new 21+ age category for viewers, instead of censoring sensitive and sexual content. Representative photoRead More →
Boston Celtics backup big man Enes Kanter recently made headlines for reasons other than basketball. What started as a campaign against the Chinese rulers and their human rights abuses has now turned into an all-out battle against companies, leaders and other athletes. In the latest twist in Kanter’s ongoing socialRead More →
– Dissident Voice / Cartoon Movemen WHAT are the western values? We often hear a representative of a Western country praising its Western values. In a 2017 statement, the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, articulated Canadian values as “openness, compassion, equality and inclusion”. Considering the psychological torture that JulianRead More →
The lesson we must learn from what happened in Afghanistan is that peace and security are not possible without respect for women’s rights and human rights. Sima Samar, head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, March 31, 2015, in his office in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo / Massoud Hossaini)Read More →
Of every great disaster there is a picture that sums up its horror. During the Vietnam War, it was the terrified young girl running naked and screaming after a napalm attack. From Afghanistan, to me it is a British soldier holding a little baby. The baby had been pushed intoRead More →
Nigerian public opinion is intensely homophobic. In 2014, the Nigerian National Assembly passed – then President Goodluck Jonathan signed – a law against homosexual activity as draconian as Uganda’s, better known. At a time of intense polarization along religious and ethnic lines in Nigeria, legislation had near universal support. InRead More →
Western educators tend to attribute the success of Asian students in international student performance assessments to Asian culture, which seems to signify the high value that Asian families place on student achievement and academic success. Those with a deeper knowledge of Asian culture also suggest that the value placed byRead More →