BY: Azeezah Kanji, Truthout As the British government moves ever closer to extraditing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, the pantomime of “justice” cloaking his persecution in the regalia of the “rule of law” continues to […]
The office of the Scottish Information Commissioner declared on 22 June that it would investigate the City of Edinburgh Council over its failure to adhere to Freedom of Information (FOI) Legislation on matters pertaining to the council’s […]
Posted by: John Phoenix “If Assange can be threatened with prosecution as a spy, what might that mean for other journalists?” pointed out a member of the National Union of Journalists of Britain and Ireland. […]
BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout Human Rights and Global Wrongs Ever since U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel formally ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S. last week, press freedom advocates around the world have been mobilizing. […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The role of stupidity in determining the course of history is often underestimated by historians. They neglect it as too crude and shallow a factor […]
BY THOMAS KNAPP Photograph Source: thierry ehrmann – CC BY 2.0 On June 17, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face 18 criminal charges: One count of […]
Has Britain drafted a law to protect Israel’s weapons makers? Kit Klarenberg The Electronic Intifada Palestine Action has proven that the merchants of death are not invincible. Just this week, it was confirmed that Israel’s top weapons exporter Elbit Systems […]
Julian Assange’s wife, Stella, slammed the U.K. government for moving to send the WikiLeaks publisher “to the country that plotted his assassination.” JAKE JOHNSON The U.K. government on Friday formally approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder […]
BY KENNETH SURIN Photograph Source: Phil Scott (Our Phellap) – CC BY-SA 3.0 The next Conservative government must not pander or protect certain sectors. Let’s not go out of our way to help small businesses, agriculture trade […]
Palestinians living in the London Borough of Hackney called for an immediate investigation into why a recent collaboration between the Nazi and Hackney police took place on the streets of London. In a letter posted […]