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Feminist Afghan Media: Afghanistan Women’s News Agency (AWNA), Nimrokh Media, Rukhshana Media, Radio Begum, Begum TV, and Zan Times
Afghanistan is facing an extreme human-rights emergency, with Taliban policies shutting girls out of secondary and university education and denying 2.2 million girls schooling beyond the primary level. Women are barred from most work, public life, and basic freedoms, while forced and child marriage has surged. In this crisis, feminist media outlets—AWNA, Nimrokh, Rukhshana, Radio Begum, Begum TV, and Zan Times—have emerged in Afghanistan and in exile, documenting abuses and defending women’s voices despite escalating repression.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen4 months ago in Humans
Necessary Truth
The Foundation Of All Thinking Every human act of reason begins with an assumption. The assumption is that logic exists. When we say something is true or false, when we draw conclusions or recognize contradictions, we rely on fixed laws of thought that we did not invent. These laws are universal, consistent, and independent of personal opinion.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 months ago in Humans
When Logic Becomes A Weapon
The Rise Of Performative Reason We live in an age where people worship logic but rarely use it with integrity. Reason has become a stage performance rather than a search for truth. Arguments that once served to clarify reality now serve to elevate ego. Debate has become entertainment. Outrage has replaced understanding.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 months ago in Humans
A Coast-to-Coast Visionary Dan Herbatschek: Bridging Coasts, Building Impact
How One Thinker Turns Ideas Into Human-Centered Innovation Dan Herbatschek’s story begins not with a single discipline, but with an uncommon curiosity—one that stretches across mathematics, history, philosophy, and the evolving dialogue between human thought and technological possibility. Today, he stands as a builder of bridges: between the humanities and the sciences, between business vision and software execution, and between the personal worlds that shape him and the professional missions that drive him.
By Dan Herbatschek5 months ago in Humans
Good Faith in a Bad-Faith World
The Collapse Of Civil Discourse Everywhere you look, conversation is breaking down. Words that once served as bridges are now weapons. People no longer speak to understand; they speak to win. To admit uncertainty is to invite ridicule. To ask a question is to be branded as weak or ignorant.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Humans
The X and the Treasure
There is a story that exists in almost every culture on earth. It is the story of a map, a mark, and a treasure buried beneath the ground. The map is dismissed as myth, the mark is ignored or defaced, and the treasure waits in silence for the one person patient enough to dig. I have come to see truth the same way.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Humans
