By Christopher CzechowiczAs a daring and impassioned journalist with a decades-long career, John Pilger has inspired and motivated many to ensure human rights and preserve unfiltered truth. From films such as Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979) to......more
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The "unstoppable" growth of secrecy in the UK
The future green paper is likely to lay the ground for a special form of secret court claimed Gareth Peirce speaking at the Frontline Club last night. Asked about a current attempt by the Government to hold an entire......more
Russia and the West: united against terrorism?
The 5 April terrorist attack in the Republic of Ingushetia was the fifth to shake Russia in the past week.In response to the first bomb blasts in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told authorities to......more
Timothy Garton Ash on Europe, Obama and the ignorance of George W Bush
By Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi The rise of China, not Islamist terrorism, is the story of our time, declared Timothy Garton Ash at the Frontline Club last night. If you missed the event, you can watch the whole thing here... "The story......more
Clive Stafford Smith: Journalists need to dig deeper on Guantanamo truth
By Patrick Smith Journalists and human rights campaigners need to "expose the truth" behind the United States' extra-judicial prison camps such as Guantanamo Bay and Bagram prison in Afghanistan. That's the call from leading human rights lawyer and founder of......more
Karen Greenberg on the first 100 days of Guantanamo
The launch of Karen Greenberg’s book The Least Worst Place made the headlines in the Telegraph with her account of the first 100 days of the notorious prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and how its leadership tried to establish something......more
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