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Book launch 14 May 09: Spies, Lies and the War on Terror
The 'War on Terror' has seen intelligence agencies become major political players. 'Rendition', untrammelled surveillance, torture and detention without trial are now the norm. "Spies, Lies and the War on Terror" traces the transformation of intelligence from a law enforcement tool to a means of avoiding both national and international law.
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST CRIMINALISING COMMUNITIES (CAMPACC), BAR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE AND ZED BOOKS would like to invite you to the launch of the new book.
The 'War on Terror' has seen intelligence agencies become major political players. 'Rendition', untrammelled surveillance, torture and detention without trial are now the norm. "Spies, Lies and the War on Terror" traces the transformation of intelligence from a law enforcement tool to a means of avoiding both national and international law.
The new culture of victimhood in the US and its allies has crushed domestic liberties and formed a global network of extra-legal licence. State and corporate interests are increasingly fused in the new business of privatising fear. This lively and shocking account is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the new power of intelligence.
For information http://www.spiesliesandwaronterror.com/
Spies, Lies & the War on Terror
Thursday 14 May, 6.30pm
Garden Court Chambers
57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ
Refreshments provided!
Speakers include:
Jonathan Bloch studied law at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics. He was politically active in South Africa and remains involved in Southern African causes. He is now a London-based businessman and is a Liberal Democrat councillor in the London Borough of Haringey. He co-authored British Intelligence and Covert Action and KGB/CIA, Global Intelligence: The World's Secret Services Today and was also a co-author of three chapters in the collection Dirty Work 2: The CIA in Africa.
Louise Christian is a leading human rights lawyer, chair of Liberty, one of the Vice-Presidents of Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers; she acted for three of the British detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director if the Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD) and teaches International Relations at the University of Sussex. He is the author of several books on terrorism, including The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry (London: Duckworth, 2006) and The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism.
Ben Hayes, worked for Statewatch since 1996 and is Director of the Statewatch European Monitoring and Documenting Centre on Justice and Home Affairs in the EU (SEMDOC). He also works as researcher for the Transnational Institute on their militarism and globalisation programme. Widely published on civil liberties issues, Ben speaks regularly addresses international conferences, parliaments and intergovernmental organisations.
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