Akbar Ganji, the Iranian journalist, activist and dissident is no stranger to hunger strikes – he refused food for 80 days during his six-year incarceration for the 'crime'
Saddam, along with three of his lawyers, began the latest in a long line of protests over trial proceedings last Friday with a hunger strike. This most recent effort shows
By Anthony Barnett
Poetic justice!
It is especially rare in British politics. After many years of getting away with it, from the early home loan scandal of his spin doctor
...like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise -
Silent, upon
The US believes that China holds the key, and China believes it's the US.
China's influence could be the solution to the current crisis over North
The "NatWest Three" are an unlikely group to have so suddenly captured the hearts of a British public for whom disliking the upper-classes is something of a
The British government's decision to pursue legal action against Craig Murray (former British ambassador to Uzbekistan) for publishing documents obtained under the 'Freedom of Information (FOI) Act&
by Jessica Reed
More than sixty African and European countries, along with twenty international NGOs and regional organisations will meet on the 10th and 11th of July at the first
The past seems to finally have caught up with Silvio Berlusconi.
Following defeats in the local andand general elections (just), his precious football toy AC Milan is now caught in
Once the chorus of admiration for the emergency services died down, as the attacks of 7/7/2005 became a distant memory, a chorus of public disapproval rose to fill
He may not have the same line in brightly coloured bandanas – but Romano Prodi is stamping his authority on the Italian presidency, and sending a message to the Bush administration
When news concerning Kenneth Lay's death hit the internet conspiracy theories started to flow freely across the blogosphere. It started with Wikipedians, who added details about his death
