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Four Myths About Doctor-Assisted Suicide
IN a little more than a week, voters in Massachusetts will decide whether to allow doctors to “prescribe medication, at the request of a...
Private eyes: how far can police surveillance go?
Most of us value our privacy. But in Australia, despite recommendation after recommendation that we reform the law to protect citizens from serious...
After the Day of Rage, the months of repression
The leader of the Bahrain Freedom Movement tells spiked that the situation in his country is grim. But is Western intervention the solution? Dr Saeed...
Banning the burqa: an assault on freedom
Unfortunately, both France and some of its critics seem driven by a desire to police people's thoughts. On the day that France’s ban on the...
Late abortion: the new clash in the Choice Wars
Ann Furedi says Philadelphia’s ‘Baby Butcher’ scandal shows exactly why we need a principled defence of abortion – as late as...
A coup for democracy?
Egype is now ruled by a gaggle of generals, which may or may not be an improvement upon rule by Hosni Mubarrak. As Daniel Larison of The American...
Vox populi or hoi polloi? Does more voting necessarily mean more democracy?
People power has its perils. In 2004, while tossing chunks of meat to his pet Bengal tigers, Saif Qaddafi (then seen as the Libyan ruler’s...
Aung San Suu Kyi: The generals think they have sidelined her. They are wrong
The pro-democracy leader is free. Now there is a huge amount to do to unite Burma. Supporters of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi wait for her release...
Afghan reporter arrested for talking to the Taliban
An Afghan reporter was arrested, apparently because of his contacts with Taliban representatives. For local reporters, covering the war is a...
An everyday mockery of democracy in land of the free
Americans have always exploited the freedoms granted in the constitution. America's weirdness is well documented. And I don't mean just the plastic-...
The humanist case against euthanasia
If you’re opposed to legalising a ‘right to die’, people assume you must be a religious crank. But not all of us are. For me, one...
Governments should not censor the internet
The proposed interner filter takes us down a dangerous path of repression favoured by regimes such as Iran's. Photo: AFP We live under the illusion...
Let's face facts, the burqa is an affront to feminism
Who knows the difference between ethics and morality? Belgium does, for one. Technically, there's not a lot in it. The dictionary makes ethics and...
Where women still don't own their bodies
The recent exhibition about female criminals - Femme Fatale - was spread over two rooms at Sydney's Justice and Police Museum. The first room charted...
The Tea Party: phoney freedom fighters
The right-wing movement is outraged by excessive government - except when it is wielded by Republicans in the name of counter-terrorism. 19 April is...
Hidden danger in tampering with the veil
Like the Americans waging war in Afghanistan, the French demanding their government ban the burka would do well to look back in history at the...
In search of Frenchness
The Sarkozy government's debates on national identity peddle the same old story about the enemy within – French Muslims. The nationwide debate...
The Taliban would applaud
It is easy to see that a woman’s human rights are violated when a government requires her to wrap her body and face in an all-concealing veil,...
Not being racist, but burka is wrong
I confess that I once fell over on the job. In 2001, I was sent near the Pakistan border to interview fleeing Afghans and the local imam asked me to...
One giant scar on mankind
Almost 20 years ago, on December 6, 1989, a young man went looking for women at l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. Here, in the middle of this highly...
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