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Independence Day 2018: The Neoliberal Religion

Sunday, 23 September 2018, 09:24 Last update: about 9 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

In this second part of my thoughts stemming from Independence Day 2018, I want to discuss some aspects of the Neoliberal Religion – the Religion of the Market –  to which the West has...

MUSIC+

Sunday, 23 September 2018, 09:10 Last update: about 9 years ago

The Classique Foundation (VO/0331) is a non-profit cultural organization whose main objective is to promote culture by organizing musical concerts from time to time. During the past years it has...

Why work-life balance matters

Sunday, 23 September 2018, 08:02 Last update: about 9 years ago

When I ask young Europeans about their hopes and concerns for their future career, a good work-life balance and flexibility are top of the list. Young people, both men and women, favour jobs in which...

Wasted organs - wasted lives

Sunday, 23 September 2018, 08:01 Last update: about 9 years ago

Hats off to my cousin, Michel Camilleri, for kick-starting a public petition for the local introduction of an ‘Opt Out Organ Donation’ system, which has had great success in Austria,...

The deceiving undercurrent

Sunday, 23 September 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 9 years ago

The enactment of the recent IVF Bill was the culmination of a chain of laws which strike a discordant note with our traditional Christian heritage. Therefore, whatever is said or done seems to be...

Questionable credibility

Sunday, 23 September 2018, 07:58 Last update: about 9 years ago

The Roman Catholic Church is no longer credible when it tries to act as the guardian of morality after so many exposures of sexual abuse by priests and cover-ups by bishops behind its ‘holy...

Of truth and honesty

Sunday, 23 September 2018, 07:57 Last update: about 9 years ago

‘What is truth’ asked a doubting Pilate when facing the Judean teacher and would not stay for an answer. This enigmatic person, the man from Nazareth in whom he found no fault, perplexed...

Men have been killing women since the time immemorial

Saturday, 22 September 2018, 08:53 Last update: about 9 years ago

Historically, traditionally, culturally and socially violence on women has long been accepted as part of every day’s life. Moralistic, patriarchal, strict hierarchical power structures in our...

What feeds the Far Right?

Saturday, 22 September 2018, 08:51 Last update: about 9 years ago

While nervously huffing and puffing about how much the far right is gaining more and more power everywhere in the West, Centre politics – and even more Left of Centre and Socialist nostalgia -...

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