“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on…” Guess who said that
The interesting thing about torture – aside from its ineffectiveness in information-gathering – is that it is, conversely, regarded as highly effective
Torture exists. It goes on in the world. We all know that. 30 years after the UN Convention Against Torture established measures
So Inauguration Day in Washington came across as a decidedly odd, even slightly unsettling, affair: which is perhaps the only fitting end-point
To conclude this series of posts anticipating the imminent change of residents at the White House, it is worth paying mind to
Following on from considering the symbolic (and the actual) disparity of a millionaire/billionaire cabal with shared business interests governing – supposedly –
Now that the electoral college has has confirmed Trump’s presidency and his inauguration approaches, I wanted to address the shape of the
A statement, released via the Jamahiriya News Agency on January 9th 2017 and purporting to be the ‘Founding Declaration of the Popular
It is difficult to look at the situation in Aleppo and not see it in a broader context. Not only of Syria, but
As was clear a few days ago when the Syrian Army liberated the Old City of Aleppo, it was just a matter
In a major tactical and symbolic victory, it is now clear that Syrian government forces and its allies have liberated the Old