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Transphobia | Wikipedia
Transphobic graffiti in Rome, meaning "trans out" in German, with a swastika. Atreliu, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia CommonsWikipedia May 13, 2023 Transphobia consists of negative attitudes, feelings, or actions towards transgender people or transness in general. Transphobia can include fear, aversion, hatred, violence or anger towards people who do not conform to social gender expectations. It is ...
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Did Entheogens Cause Human Intelligence? | Bard
LSD Blotter Paper. David S. Soriano, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia CommonsBard -- World News Trust May 13, 2023 There is no scientific consensus on whether entheogens, or psychoactive plants and fungi ...
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Can BRICS Weaken the Dominance of the IMF and World Bank? | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudThe Rise of the South Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 16, 2023 Who would have expected that the BRICS nations could rise as the potential rival of the G7 countries, the World B ...
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Quest For Religious War: How Israel Is Unifying Arabs And Muslims Around Palestine | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 12, 2023 By ordering a brutal attack against Palestinian worshipers inside Al-Aqsa Mosque on the 14th day of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, I ...
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Palestine, Indonesia And The ‘Human Rights’ Dilemma | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudThe Price Of Solidarity Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 7, 2023 When I excitedly shared the news on social media that Indonesia had refused to host the Israeli team as part of ...
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The Post-Human Desert | Slavoj Žižek
Image portraying artificial intelligence. Public domain Unlike past technological innovations, artificial intelligence is not about humanity’s mastery over nature, but rather about relinquishing cont ...
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Lying about Lying: Why We Must Revisit the Definition of ‘Fake News’ | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 3, 2023 The phrase "fake news" continues to be deployed routinely in U.S. politics. In a polarized political atmosphere, both Republicans and De ...
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Can Journalists Be Activists? | Jan-Werner Mueller
News icons created by Freepik - FlaticonAt a time when autocrats are consolidating power by attacking “the media,” old debates about journalism’s role in a democracy and how journalists should conduc ...
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Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney
Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, ...
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The death of open access mega-journals? | Justin Jackson
Justin Jackson -- Phys.org March 29, 2023 The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional subscripti ...
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How Elon Musk's Tweets Unleashed A Wave Of Hate | Marianna Spring
Marianna Spring -- BBC Disinformation and social media correspondent March 20, 2023 (BBC) -- I had just finished my investigation into whether Twitter can protect users under Elon Musk's ownership, w ...
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