The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the world’s first and only global court to adjudicate crimes against humanity. But leaders of Sudan and Kenya, who have inflicted terror and fear across their countries, are trying to drag Africa out of the ICC, allowing them the freedom to kill, rape, and inspire hatred without consequences. Continue reading
Director Kim Longinotto’s new film tells the remarkable story of the Tamil poet Salma and her lifelong rebellion against the stifling misogynistic culture of her village in southern India. For decades, poetry provided Salma with a mental escape from the unbearable conditions to which she was subjected. Her story is one of quiet heroic rebellion against a culture which crushes the female spirit. Continue reading
This week I had the honour of being interviewed by Rob Kall for his Bottom Up Radio Show. Rob is the executive editor and publisher of OpEdNews.com one of the top 100 blogs overall, according to Technorati.com
Rob has a deep interest in psychopaths and the damage they do to societies. His previous guests on Bottom Up Radio have included Clive Boddy, author of Corporate Psychopaths, Sandra Brown, author of Women Who Love Psychopaths, and Donald Black, author of Bad Boys, Bad Men.
The interview was an opportunity for us to explore in some depth some of the main issues surrounding people with dangerous personality disorders, the damage they cause, and what we can do to protect ourselves from the violence and suffering they inflict. Continue reading
19 September 2013
| Ian has a big picture and a detailed understanding of how psychopaths have caused incredible damage, suffering and pain… and he has solutions. Rob Kall, Bottom Up Radio Show |
Ian Hughes was interviewed by Rob Kall for the Bottom Up Radio Show to discuss a world damaged by psychopaths, and to explore some answers.
Rob Kall Interviews some of the world’s smartest, most dynamic people on his Bottom Up Radio Show with the goal of getting them to share their wisdom and knowledge and to stretch their vision. His guests have included Arianna Huffington, Joseph Nye, Greg Palast, Noam Chomsky, Ethan Zuckerman, and Douglas Rushkoff. The show runs 9-10 PM EST, 6-7 PM Pacific on AM 1360 in the United States in the South New Jersey and metropolitan Philadelphia area on Wednesdays.
Rob Kall is also executive editor and publisher of OpEdNews.com one of the top 100 blogs overall, according to Technorati.com
Concluding the show, Rob gave a strong endorsement of Ian’s forthcoming book Imperfect Design, saying
“This is such a brilliant book, pulling together a big picture like no other books on this topic I’ve seen.”
You can listen to Ian’s interview with Rob Kall here
“Great revolutions in science have a common denominator: They knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our conviction about our own self-importance.”
Sigmund Freud
Science is one of the defining features of our age. Scientific knowledge and the technologies we have developed based on that knowledge have transformed our world. In 1700, over 80 percent of the world’s population lived in abject poverty and average life expectancy was less than forty years. In London, then the world’s most developed city, almost 60 per cent of children died before they reached the age of ten. During the last few turbulent centuries, science and technology have changed everything, ushering in standards of health and income never before seen in history.
Aside from its practical use, science is also one of modern civilisation’s most valuable cultural assets. Science has not only transformed our understanding of ourselves and our place in nature, it has also brought with it a set of values which have helped to bring us out of the dark ages of stagnation and superstition and give us a belief in progress and reason. And in an age that is increasingly characterised by selfishness and self-absorption, science can also provide a powerful remedy for narcissism. Continue reading
For me this struggle is a seamless robe. Opposing apartheid was a matter of justice. Opposing discrimination against women is a matter of justice. Opposing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a matter of justice.
Desmond Tutu
Racial Equality
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King, addressing a crowd of 250,000 people in Washington, inspired America with his vision of a future in which his children would ‘not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.’ Today King is honoured as a hero, and the Civil Rights campaign he led is celebrated as having ended an appalling injustice. But for most of history the racist beliefs against which he fought were almost universally accepted in white societies. Continue reading
India Commemorates Independence
This month, India celebrated sixty seven years of independence from British rule. Almost seven decades ago many ridiculed the idea that a stable democracy could be established in so poor, vast and diverse a country. A senior British official, observing India’s first general election, reflected the views of many in the British establishment when he wrote, ‘A future more enlightened age will view with astonishment the absurd farce of recording the votes of millions of illiterate people.’ Continue reading
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