Articles
Below are links to recent articles published on MercatorNet.
Are Hope and Change tainted before Obama is even sworn in?
John Robson | 19 December 2008 |
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Historian John Robson says Barack Obama is hardly the first president or president-elect to brush with scandal - real or imagined.
The peak of deception
Alejo José G. Sison | 18 December 2008 |
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The racket perpetrated by Bernie Madoff may be the biggest so far, but it certainly won't be the last.
Defending the family with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Don Browning | 18 December 2008
Sixty years after it was adopted by the United Nations, the Declaration is still a robust shield for the family.
Better than human
Michael Cook | 17 December 2008 |
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Why is the world's most prestigious science journal peddling the snake oil of cognition-enhancing drugs?
So what do we call it?
Brian Lilley | 17 December 2008 |
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A Menorah is not a candelabra, a Christmas tree is well, a Christmas tree.
The Filipino whose fists stop wars
Zen Udani | 16 December 2008 |
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"Don't tell God you have a big problem. Tell your problem you have a big God,” champ tells fans.
Who cares about third world mothers?
Robert Walley | 16 December 2008 |
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The hidden scandal of unsafe childbirth and the hope that a new professional initiative is bringing to mothers.
The school agenda
Michelle Martin | 13 December 2008 |
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Do they want me to go to the office every day when my kids are adults so that I can sign them on?
A beacon of hope?
Brian Lilley | 12 December 2008 |
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The United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights turns 60. Does the post-war text still speak to us today?
Is there a natural right to same-sex marriage?
Juan R. Vélez | 12 December 2008 |
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No -- but sometimes the most obvious truths are the hardest to explain.
Derivatives regulation: making men moral
Oskari Juurikkala | 10 December 2008 |
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Who can be trusted to regulate "financial weapons of mass destruction"?
“Birds of a feather”
Rosa Pich and Fabizio Assandri | 10 December 2008 |
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The need for a buddy system among many siblings provided the motto for a Spanish family.
A passion for babies, a knack for business
Carolyn Moynihan | 10 December 2008 |
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A Kiwi mother talks about raising a large family and running a thriving business on the side.
Richard Dawkins and the meming of life
Richard Umbers | 05 December 2008 |
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Having disposed of God, Darwin's Rottweiler has taken to barking at fairies.
The price for opposing euthanasia
Michael Cook | 05 December 2008 |
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The Grand Duke of Luxembourg is to be stripped of his executive veto after refusing to rubber-stamp a euthanasia law.


