A British soldier who handled a notorious IRA informer also gave spy tips to east African wildlife rangers whose shoot-to-kill anti-poaching policy killed dozens of innocent Kenyans, Phil Miller reports.
The Spy Who Went on Safari
Category: United Kingdon
Craig Murray: Your Man in Saughton Jail
Murray recommends a spell there to any other middle-class person who, like himself, was foolish enough to believe that Scotland is a socially progressive country.
UK Deployed 31 Nuclear Weapons During Falklands War
British warships in 1982 were armed with dozens of nuclear depth charges in a nuclear-free zone in Latin America, Richard Norton-Taylor reports.
COVID-19: England’s Unprepared Omicron Mess
Caroline Molloy blasts the Johnson government for taking things to the point where NHS hospitals are being told to free up beds for Covid patients by discharging other sick people to private facilities.
Chris Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange
He committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.
Assange: The Masks are Crumbling
The U.S. and its allies don’t care about press freedom beyond the extent it can be used to conduct propaganda, writes Caitlin Johnstone after the High Court’s ruling against Julian Assange.
The Tribal Left’s Mirror Image of Tribal Right
Truly liberating oneself from propaganda and transcending the identities that have been largely manufactured is the riskiest of ventures, writes Jonathan Cook.
Assange’s Judge Is Longtime Friend of Minister Who Oversaw Arrest
Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis report on the personal ties between two men with major roles – one past and the other pending — in the case of the WikiLeaks publisher.
Rewriting History in Northern Ireland
The Boris Johnson government, while censoring files, wants to commission an “official history” of the Troubles, Anne Cadwallader reports.
Poll: UK Public Worried About More NHS Privatization
The findings, which show concern spread evenly across the political spectrum, come ahead of a Nov. 23 final healthcare vote in the House of Commons.