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If you want to understand the present, study the past

by Phil Braham | Aug 16, 2020 | Covid, General, Psychology, Social commentary

A poster for mask wearing and social distancing A Nazi propaganda poster My mother was brought up in a very Jewish family in Poland. In the early 1930s her parents — my grandparents — took her and her brother out of Poland to Belgium and then to London. They knew that...

Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and COVID-19

by Phil Braham | Aug 8, 2020 | Covid, General, Psychology, Social commentary

The anti-blasphemy laws in Pakistan date back to British rule and were undoubtably made for political, not religious, purposes. However they are largely supported in Pakistan. As this BBC article point out: A large majority of Pakistani people support the...

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