war on terror
- 27 Apr 2008ByIMCista
Yes that’s right. Under the Terrorism Act 2000, we no longer have this right – as IMCista explains.
- 23 Apr 2008ByBen Hayes
A little known UK government legal order forces individuals merely “suspected of terrorism” to have all their assets seized and forced to appeal for funds to even feed themselves. Statewatch reports.
- 21 Mar 2008BySolomon Hughes
It started with an article on a private security company in Bosnia. Solomon Hughes then became drawn into an investigation which was to expose the ever growing profits made from the privatisation of war.
- 20 Mar 2008BySeamus Milne
The Iraq catastrophe isn’t down to mistakes or lack of planning, but a refusal to accept that people will resist foreign occupation, writes Seamus Milne.
- 11 Mar 2008ByHenry Porter
After a two-year campaign to protect our freedoms, The Observer’s Henry Porter was called last week to give evidence to a panel of peers and MPs assessing whether a Bill of Rights is necessary for Britain today. Here is his submission.
- 02 Mar 2008By
Ben Griffin is the former SAS soldier who has decided to go public about British complicity in torture and rendition. See his statement just after the Government imposed a gagging order on him.
- 09 Feb 2008BySchNews
SchNEWS on New Labour’s ongoing efforts to dismantle protections against the power of the state and to undermine checks and balances that safeguard our civil liberties – all in the name of “counter terrorism”, of course.
- 06 Feb 2008ByNahella Ashraf
Nahella Ashraf writes that Islamophobia is the last “acceptable” racism in Britain. To combat it means opposing the “war on terror”.
- 24 Dec 2007BySeamus Milne
People who would have no problem recognising anti-semitism as a form of racism still claim Islamophobia is about ideology, not ethnicity, argues Seamus Milne.
- 28 Nov 2007BySteve McGiffen
Steve McGiffen asks whether expanded ‘terror’ laws and a new EU force with military status herald the rise of the police state.
- 21 Nov 2007ByTom Porteous
Britain’s economic and military assistance in Pakistan serve only to add to that country’s mounting problems. Tom Porteous, London Director of Human Rights Watch reports.
- 17 Oct 2007ByPaul Rogers
As we enter the seventh year of the so-called “war on terror”, we face a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan, a stronger al-Qaida, a more assertive Iran and a humanitarian catastrophe in Iraq. Although U.S. strategy is unlikely to change in the near future, writes Paul Rogers, there is another way.