78 days ago

The Birth Keepers: how the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world – video ⊕⊕

found 2025 › Dec › 11 (Thu) @ 09:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The Free Birth Society (FBS) is a multimillion-dollar business that promotes an extreme version of free birth, meaning women giving birth without medical assistance. The Guardian can now reveal that …

79 days ago

The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one ⊕

found 2025 › Dec › 10 (Wed) @ 19:30 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly co…

5 months ago

We must not let the shooting of Charlie Kirk become Trump’s Reichstag fire | David Van Reybrouck ○

found 2025 › Sep › 17 (Wed) @ 04:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Take heed from European history: this could be the pretext for the repression of the US president’s political opponents

If 2025 was already shaping up to be the worst year of the century for the post-…

Birth control: why are influencers turning away from the pill and towards natural contraceptive methods? | Antiviral ○

found 2025 › Sep › 16 (Tue) @ 15:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Claims on social media feeds are that synthetic hormones cause infertility and affect romantic choices. Experts say unintended pregnancies have reached ‘concerning levels’

Read more in the Antiviral s…

6 months ago

In Russia, Soldiers’ Wives Are Urged to Give Birth to Children Who Might Never Meet Their Fathers ○

found 2025 › Jul › 30 (Wed) @ 17:30 UTC

a story from The Moscow Times ✅ › The Moscow Times

Initiatives across Russia are encouraging wives of soldiers to carry their pregnancies to term, even as the fathers might not return from the front.

7 months ago

If the king of Belgium can speak the truth about Gaza, why can’t Europe’s cowardly politicians? | David Van Reybrouck ○

found 2025 › Jul › 25 (Fri) @ 10:05 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

EU leaders should have said what Philippe did months ago. He has highlighted their complicity

Just when it seemed that Europe’s moral failure over Gaza was complete, the head of state of one EU countr…

Has Trump taken leadership lessons from cold war-era Africa? ○

found 2025 › Jul › 05 (Sat) @ 04:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

To truly understand the president’s style of rule, we must go beyond Scandinavian sagas and Sicilian crime lore

Ever since Donald Trump returned to power, pundits have struggled to find apt analogies …

8 months ago

Just when the world desperately needs wise elders, its fate is in the hands of old and ruthless patriarchs | David Van Reybrouck ○

found 2025 › Jun › 28 (Sat) @ 04:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The global order is being dismantled by a generation that will not live to see the wreckage they leave behind

Let’s attempt something delicate: talking about age without slipping into ageism. Never be…

11 months ago

Is Europe misunderstanding Trump on Ukraine? | Stephen Wertheim ○

found 2025 › Mar › 03 (Mon) @ 09:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The new administration appears to be taking a position that Ukrainian and European leaders aren’t hearing – or are trying to alter

A high-stakes transatlantic miscommunication is unfolding, with the p…

12 months ago

Watch out for the bare Botticellis! In the craziest trigger warning yet, students are told they'll encounter 'images of nudity' in two of the Italian master's greatest works ○

found 2025 › Feb › 23 (Sun) @ 09:09 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The University of Roehampton warned undergraduates taking a module on medieval and Renaissance gods and heroes they will find 'images of nudity' in The Birth of Venus.