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64.9% of Iranians Want to Remove the Emblem of Allah from the Flag of Iran

According to the survey Iranians’ attitudes toward political systems, 46.2% of Iranians want to bring back the Shah-era Iranian flag with the lion in the center...

Is a Revolution Against the Islamic Republic Possible in Iran?

I watched an interview with Iranian blogger Maziar Mian, who believes that the war may lead to the fall of the Islamic Republic and the rise to power of the dem...

Climate Scientists Are Less Trusted Than Scientists in General, Global Study Finds

A new global study of nearly 70,000 people in 68 countries reveals that climate scientists are generally trusted less than scientists overall — a difference kno...

British Report Reveals Alarming Scale of Censorship Through Social Coercion. The Concept of Freedom-Restricting Harassment Introduced

The suppression of free speech does not always come from the state. It sometimes arises through social mechanisms that pressure individuals into silence. In som...

Russian War Machine Runs Out of Resources

Russia managed to seize less than 3,000 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory in 2024 - about the size of Luxembourg. The cost was 150,000 Russian soldiers k...

7 Reasons Why Wokeism Is a Dangerous Authoritarian Ideology

Wokeism Is Anti-Individualist Collectivism emphasizes the group over the individual, and Wokeism falls under this definition as it sorts people into groups base...

How Libertarian Ideas Helped Build a Free Economy in the Ruins of Post-Soviet Georgia in the 2000s

I recently read an insightful book, Why Georgia Has Succeeded, by Larisa Burakova, which explores the reforms Georgia undertook in the 2000s. A central figure i...

Instead of Advancing Their Rights at the Expense of Women’s, the Transgender Community Should Advocate for Recognition of a Distinct Identity

Can eye surgery make you Korean? > White influencer ‘identifies as Korean’ after getting eye surgery - Metro Neither can surgery on the genitalia make you a wom...