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Today is Nakba Day, when Palestinians mourn expulsion from their homeland in 1948. This year, Israel's violence has ignited the largest Palestinian uprising in years – and it needs meaningful international solidarity.
By Akram Salhab, 15 May 2021
Why is the Biden administration blindly following Donald Trump’s policy of propping up Turkey’s authoritarian president?
By Meredith Tax, 13 May 2021
Connor Hayes speaks with Shahzavar Karimzadi, Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, about the history of the Balochistan liberation struggle. We at Peace in Kurdistan and Campaign Against Criminalising Communities thought it important to have an in-depth examination of the issue. The discussion recorded here is extensive, covering a wide range of topics, including the history of the Balochistan region, British colonization, the division of Balochistan into disparate nation-state territories, the creation of Pakistan, the history of the Balochistan independence movement, tactics of torture and repression employed by the state, the geopolitical dimensions of the situation in Balochistan, Baloch culture and social relations, and the struggle against the criminalization of the Baloch movement under the global war on terror.
Peace in Kurdistan Campaign and CAMPACC, 08 May 2021
Connor Hayes speaks with Dr. Andy Higginbottom, associate professor in the department of politics, human rights and international rights at Kingston University, about the recent deportations of Tamils from Germany to Sri Lanka, the history of the LTTE, the role of imperialist states in the genocide of the Tamils, and the present state of the Tamil struggle for self-determination.
Peace in Kurdistan Campaign and CAMPACC, 11 April 2021
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is being rushed through parliament. It will give the police powers to impose conditions on protests that they view as too noisy or cause “serious unease”.
The Bill will ban protests that block roads around Parliament. It also allows the police to impose conditions on one-person protests. And it will introduce a new offence, punishable by up to ten years in prison, of ‘public nuisance’ for actions that cause “serious distress”, “serious annoyance”, “serious inconvenience”.
The Canary, 17 March 2021As part of our #FollowTheMoney series, The Canary has been monitoring Prevent funding from the Home Office.
What we got was a breakdown of the numbers – and nothing more.
The Canary, 20 March 2021
Proposals published in December could vastly increase the powers of EU policing agency Europol, in particular by granting it new data-processing powers, a role in developing algorithms and new technologies for the police, and by easing cooperation with non-EU states.
Statewatch, 15 March 2021
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will face a system that is rigged by design before he ever sets foot in the court room, should he be extradited to the Unites States, CIA officer-turned-whistleblower John Kiriakou explains in an exclusive interview with Sputnik.
Sputnik News, 16 March 2021
Haiti Action Committee strongly condemns the continued US and UN support for Haitian dictator Jovenel Moise as he flaunts the Haitian constitution and clings to power. Moise has been ruling by decree for months, and is now pushing to enact illegitimate constitutional reforms that would give him even more power.
Haiti Action Committee, 7 February 2021
Nearly 500 search and seizure warrants were executed as part of the Mueller investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. Some of those warrants were for the electronic data belonging to a graphic designer, that contained 'gag orders' preventing Google and Microsoft from informing him that his data had been handed over.
Sputnik News, 22nd January 2021
The Pegasus snooping scandal shook the confidence of WhatsApp users and dispelled the notion that some devices are more secure. Under pressure from users, WhatsApp has deferred its new privacy policy, but after Pegasus, WhatsApp will have to do a lot more to restore faith in privacy and security,
The Leaflet, 17 January 2021
More than 250 Tamil Organizations based in the UK have come together in a bid to push the British Government to sponsor a Resolution in relation to Sri Lanka at the 46th UN Human Rights Council session in March 2021.
Colombo Telegraph, 6 January 2021
Documents obtained by Drone Wars using the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) reveal how British military officials view the UK’s next generation armed drone, known as Protector, and the types of advanced capabilities the aircraft will have.
Drone Wars, December 7th 2020
Britain's signals intelligence spy agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), is accused of "blacklisting" the head of investigations at Declassified UK in an exclusive report published by the media organisation on 1 December 2020.
Sputnik News, 1 December 2020
The Undercover Policing Inquiry was set up to investigate claims of police had infiltrated more than 1,000 trade unions, environmental and anti-war groups, and leftist movements, all operating legally within England and Wales. But the judge in charge refuses to permit the public to watch the hearings, a participant tells Sputnik.
Sputnik, November 27th 2020