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Published in: Dark Money Investigations‘Second’ bank account: MPs demand probe into Rees-Mogg’s Brexit group
Cross-party demands for an urgent investigation into the financial affairs of the European Research Group follow...
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Published in: HomeWhy we're launching openMedia
Forget fake news. Money can distort media far more disturbingly – through advertorials, and through buying silence....
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaDeafening noise from flights over Fontibón in Bogotá, Colombia. Something went wrong with the IDB
The case of the El Dorado airport expansion in Bogotá, Colombia, shows how the Inter-American Development Bank gags...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaA US charity helps big businesses take indigenous people's water in Mexico
US religious charity Living Water claims it is trying to help the poor, but in reality it is only increasing such...
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Published in: 50.50Philosophies of migration
Migration raises more fundamental questions than 'should these people be here': it probes into the very essence of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThis is not what democracy looks like
On 1 May Occupy Democracy will be returning to Parliament Square to demonstrate against the UK's inveterate political system.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMisdirection at the Chilcot Inquiry
The Inquiry shows us that when asked a difficult question there is nearly always a way to deflect responsibility.
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Published in: openSecurityBlowback: the failure of remote-control warfare
It all seemed so convenient: remote-control warfare would minimise military casualties while rendering the civilian...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter the torture report—rebalancing the scales of justice
In the voluminous responses to the long-awaited US Senate committee report on torture by the CIA, the essence of...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter the Kenyatta case, how is the ICC to help victims?
The states party to the founding statute of the International Criminal Court must ensure victims of war crimes can...
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Published in: openSecurityThe International Criminal Court must fix its anti-African image
The International Criminal Court is often presented as "racist" in Africa because of its focus on indictees from the...
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Published in: openSecurityPresumed guilty: the quiet human-rights scandal of pre-trial detention
Around the world, millions are effectively punished before they are tried and many are subjected to violence and...
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Published in: openSecurityEgypt: time to end the diplomatic farce
Many Egyptians are smarting from the betrayal of their revolution while the military-backed regime tightens its...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHuman Rights Watch on Rabaa: words aren’t loud enough
When words do not align with values, any crime can be justified.
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Published in: 50.50The death of Abelhak Goradia: a worrying silence in France
The recent death of an Algerian national at the hands of the police during deportation should provoke public...
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Published in: openSecurityNo limits to brutality: deaths at the Greece-Turkey borders
People who fetch up at the borders between Greece and Turkey are treated as if they were less than human, in...
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Published in: openSecuritySri Lanka inquiry: a Tamil asylum-seeker speaks
As an international inquiry on the bloodshed in Sri Lanka in 2009 looms, one Tamil asylum-seeker explains why it...
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Published in: openSecurityLords impede UK citizen-stripping move
In the latest episode in the UK government’s attempts to extend its power to strip UK citizens of their nationality,...
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Published in: openSecurityBritish citizen, British justice?
The British home secretary can deprive of their citizenship individuals whose presence in the UK she deems “not...
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Published in: openSecuritySelling dictatorship
Liberal opinion has been outraged by the disclosures about US and UK electronic surveillance. Yet the most...