Censorship in the UK: Freedom of the Press and Social Media Under Attack
A warning to social-media users not to comment on ongoing legal issues, until after they have been to court and a verdict has been reached, was issued on the morning of December 4, 2013 through the United Kingdom government’s main media tool and sycophant, the BBC, by Attorney General Dominic Grieve. Together with the attacks […]
Uzbekistan’s Dictatorship Is No Laughing Matter
Since the attack on the twin towers and the declaration of an endless global “war on terror,” non-peacetime measures have been introduced into mainstream media that have eroded civil liberties and turned television into little more than a propaganda machine. Truth being the first victim of war, little can be taken on face value. It […]
Supermax Prisons and Guantanamo: Worse Than the Gulag?
Saturday October 5, 2013 marks a full year in United States custody for Talha Ahsan, Babar Ahmad and three other British residents extradited from the United Kingdom to the US. Nobody in the UK knows specifically why they are being held in the US, except that the charges relate, in Talha and Babar’s cases, to […]
A Tale of Two Concentration Camps: Guantanamo and Ruhleben
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness… it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…” With such oxymoronic sentiment begins one of Charles Dickens’ great classics from which the title of this article is […]
UK Vote on Syria: Democracy Can Win
Surprisingly for some, on August 29, 2013 the House of Commons voted for the United Kingdom not to get involved in military action in Syria. This government defeat was momentous in terms of recent history. David Cameron, who had recalled parliament from its summer recess especially for the debate and vote, was forced to chew […]
