The flights have taken off from Britain’s controversial air base on Cyprus, RAF Akrotiri, and averaged around one a day since the beginning of December, Matt Kennard reports.
UK Has Flown 50 Spy Missions Over Gaza
Category: Secrecy
UK’s Rwanda Deportation Ruling Offers Assange Hope
The recent Appeal Court finding in the U.K.’s Rwanda deportation case that the court ultimately determines the worth of diplomatic assurances on good treatment could be greatly significant in the Julian Assange case, writes Craig Murray.
McBride Trial Tests Australian Justice
WATCH: Celebration of the Life of Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg, the most prominent whistleblower in U.S. history, will be remembered on Sunday at 1pm PDT, 4pm EDT. Watch it here.
The Many Lessons of Ukraine War
Combatting Russia to the last Ukrainian was always an odious strategy, writes Chas W. Freeman in this expansive overview.
German Banker & British Lord Who Wrote ‘Capitalist Magna Carta’
In this excerpt from their book Silent Coup, Claire Provost and Matt Kennard go to the sources of a key legal mechanism used by multinational corporations to override governments around the world.
Nuclear Weapons: Devastation Inside the US
Environmental contamination, staggering cleanup costs and a culture of government secrecy: William J. Kinsella raises the toxic legacy of the Manhattan Project.
The US Press, Spooks & the Church Committee
Nineteen fifty-three was a peculiar year for The Washington Post to question the C.I.A.’s drift into activist intrigues, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his forthcoming book, Journalists and Their Shadows.
‘Oppenheimer’
BP Financed Colombian Military
Documents reveal how the oil company offered to finance Bogota’s military as it was killing opponents during the 1990s and collaborated with a general accused of kidnap, torture and murder, John McEvoy reports.