Individual acts of this type happen all the time, I know, but we have here a rather different phenomenon - a huge number of attackers of one non-German ethnic/cultural/religious group (young male North African Muslim Arabs) appearing to work in concert. No doubt some of my friends will attempt...
Following the ISIS outrages in Beirut and Paris, John Pilger updates this prescient essay on the root causes of terrorism and what we can do about it.
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that...
‘Town that won't stop flooding: Hebden Bridge cleans up for the third time in three weeks.’That was a Daily Mail headline in July. It was a slight exaggeration. Most people who live in Hebden Bridge (West Yorkshire) are pretty sure they were only flooded twice, but it was enough. Cars were...
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 8 December 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
UNHCR is releasing today the results of a preliminary questionnaire of over 1,200 Syrian refugees who arrived...
In one of the most articulate and confident examples of dealing with part of Murdoch's propaganda machine John Rees handles Sky News' Adam Boulton magnificently. As Boulton attempts to undermine both Rees, Stop the War and Jeremy Corbyn John confidently, calmly and with great clarity explains every point. ...
Here we go again. Primark workers in China victims of government torture. Profit over human rights as cheap labour is more important to many consumers than life it seems. As long as Primark sell cheap goods and people keep buying them I suspect little will change. Another smokescreen and...
A Conservative MP who added a death threat to an email from a constituent now faces demands to resign. Adding the 'death threat' to the end of the email she was caught out when the sender made the original public. Below is the chain of emails. The Original email:...
“Fair Greece! And relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!” Lord Byron Byron fought for Greece, inspired by the Classical civilisation and progressive nationalism, which once was able to look beyond its own borders and favour the people of oppressed nations. As a “Great British...
Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers?
Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and...
Marienna Pope Weidemann from Swanage is Volunteering/reporting from the refugee road through the Greek island of Lesvos. This is her first submission from the Greek island.
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Lesbos, Greece -Â Police beatings, tear gas, hunger and chaos. It sounds more like the repression of the Arab Spring than an official UN registration centre...
