Press freedom, whistleblowers and misinformation - from Assange and WikiLeaks to state surveillance and the fight for a free press.
On paper, Alexander Vindman’s loss in last week’s Florida Democratic Senate was a shocking upset. After all, Vindman had a 16-to-1 fundraising advantage and far more national name recognition than the winner — progressive state Rep. Angie Nixon. But the results...
Al Shara aka Al Jolani, Sunni Terrorist For a quarter century the United States has told the world, and itself, a simple story about its role in the Middle East. On September 11, 2001, it was attacked by Sunni jihadists, and...
From Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Aniston and Lionel Messi, celebrities across the world are hiring teams of Israeli bodyguards made up of former Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israeli special forces. But how safe is it to entrust your...
The United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro. If that does not work and President Lula da Silva secures...
For those casually observing the war in Ukraine, the failure of Kyiv’s recent strikes on Russian territory to impact the battlefield might be disappointing, even inexplicable. For those who have paid close attention to the war, it is just the...
The Documenting Oppression against Muslims (DOAM) organization has charted a series of anti-Muslim hate crimes, harassment, and assaults over the summer of 2026 in the United States, Britain, Canada, Ireland, Italy, and Belgium. The ten weeks since the end of...
We are seeing today a surge in heretical media outlets including Novara, Doubledown News, Drop Site, Byline Times, Middle East Eye – and of course Declassified UK. We have emerged thanks in part to a growing appreciation that the mainstream media...
Britain has used its major air base on Cyprus to move sensitive equipment without scrutiny, declassified files show. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) wrote in a formerly secret 1993 file that RAF Akrotiri plays a “key role in support of the...
Today’s top items: 1. Wang Huning tours Tibet - Wang Huning, Politburo Standing Committee member and CPPCC Chairman, inspected Tibet from July 19 to 22, Xinhua reports. Beyond Lhasa he went to Ngari Prefecture in the far west, with stops including...
Poor health, hunger, and malnutrition are not just symptoms of poverty—they are barriers to education, socialization, and hope. By Colin Greer and Reynard Loki C lick here to read the article on the Observatory . In Peoria, Illinois, children living in federally subsidized...
To commemorate Nakba Day 2026, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is honoured to host Lubnah Shomali from BADIL for a meeting to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the beginning of the Palestinian Nakba (‘Catastrophe’ in Arabic) – and to discuss how...
My father, Ernest Rodker, who has died aged 87, was a passionate and committed peace and justice campaigner, a skilled cabinetmaker and a loving father. After working on the fittings for the Partisan Coffee House in London – the Soho venue...
As Nakba Day approaches and the Israeli state continues its relentless genocide of the Palestinian people, join Mahmoud Nawaja, General Coordinator of the Palestinian BDS Movement, for an urgent discussion on Ireland’s role in the global struggle for Palestinian liberation,...
To commemorate Nakba Day 2024, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is honoured to host Lubnah Shomali from BADIL for a meeting to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (‘Catastrophe’ in Arabic). Lubnah will speak in the following locations: Sun 12 May...
There is a scene in S. Leo Chiang’s Oscar-nominated documentary short Island in Between where two men discuss a fierce battle. One mentions a memorial for fallen soldiers on the opposite side of the strait that separates them from China....
At the time of writing, Apartheid Israel has cut off all aid, water and power to over million people trapped in the Gaza Strip. It has engaged in widespread and indiscriminate bombing, killing more than 10,000 people, over 4,000 of...
Murder on the Acadia Bob Altemeyer Copyright © 2023 by Bob Altemeyer Murder On the Acadia Chapter 1 On a fine June day in 1999 Roger Galten, 63, a professor in the University of Chicago’s Department of Psychology, stared mournfully at the two folders he...
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : ❖ Julian Assange is a journalist who’s been imprisoned for doing journalism on war crimes, by an empire that claims to defend journalists and oppose war crimes. Assange and his persecution...
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : I saw a video clip of Julian Assange speaking in London in 2010 where he made an important observation while explaining the philosophy behind his work with WikiLeaks. He...
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : ❖ The New York Times has been churning out an amazing number of hit pieces on Robert F Kennedy Jr lately. On Tuesday the Times published an audio essay titled “...
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign this evening expressed anger and frustration that the Irish government earlier refused to support the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill, introduced into the Dáil by John Brady TD. Instead, the government will tomorrow vote to amend...
The following statement was issued on Nakba Day, May 15th 2023, by BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights . It was co-signed by more than 180 organisations from around the world, including the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. You...
Ahead of the first anniversary of the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military , the New York based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) this week released a report detailing the killings of 20 journalists...
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is organising events around Ireland to commemorate what Palestinians call Nakba Day which marks the 75 th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (‘Catastrophe’) which saw the expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians, forcibly uprooted from their homeland...
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) condemns the Apartheid State of Israel for overseeing the death by hunger strike of Palestinian political prisoner Khader Adnan. Adnan, 45, died yesterday after an 87-day hunger strike in protest at his unlawful detention without...
Do you believe in Santa Claus? Probably not. But suppose you were surrounded by people who did. Suppose in fact that you chose to surround yourself with Santa Believers, soaked up all their beliefs, and studiously ignored the overwhelming evidence...
You know how a pitch in the dirt in a baseball game can bounce up and hit the catcher in a certain place that makes all the men watching the game bend over and groan? Well, that summed up my...
We finished editing the text of Authoritarian Nightmare (“ AN ”) on June 26, 2020 and sent the manuscript off to the typesetter. Since then four books about President Trump have shot to the top of the bestsellers lists that...
28 March 1988: Vanunu gave the Sunday Times details of his eight years employment at a top-secret nuclear research centre in Israel Mordechai Vanunu, the former technician convicted last week of treason and espionage for revealing the secrets of Israel’s nuclear...
- Mordechai Vanunu accused of breaching strict controls on movement - Former technician blew whistle on Israel’s nuclear weapons programme Among all the talk of whistleblowers as heroes - Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, the Panama Papers leaker - one is...
Former nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel’s nuclear programme is accused of breaching restraining orders Israeli prosecutors charged nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu on Sunday with violating the terms of his release, more than a decade after he completed an 18-year...
On 13 October, Mordechai Vanunu will be 61. He was imprisoned for 18 years in 1986 for telling the world that Israel had secretly developed a large nuclear arsenal. Released in 2004 after having served his full sentence, he was...
Israeli nuclear whistleblower reportedly given latest in a series of sentences for violating conditions of his release An Israeli court has put nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu under seven days’ house arrest for giving a TV interview, more than a decade after...
- Mordechai Vanunu faces legal costs and extraordinary restrictions - US report shows when Washington knew about nuclear programme - Israel sends ‘observers’ to non-proliferation treaty conference Mordechai Vanunu is still prevented from leaving his country and subjected to extraordinary restrictions for blowing...
How right Duncan Campbell is to compare Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistleblower, to Edward Snowden ( Let Israel's Snowden go , 21 April). However, there is at least one important difference: Vanunu was kidnapped, sentenced and served a punitive 18...
Those who support the US whistleblower should back his Israeli predecessor in his bid for a new life abroad Ten years ago today, a man emerged from prison to be greeted by a crowd of his supporters embracing him with carnations...
Nine years ago , Mordechai Vanunu was released from Ashkelon prison in Israel. He had served the full 18 years of his sentence – including over 11 years in solitary confinement – for blowing the whistle on Israel's secret possession...
Germany's Nobel laureate describes Vanunu, who spent 18 years in prison for leaking details of Israel's nuclear programme, as a 'role model and hero of our time' Germany's Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass, who earlier this year was barred from Israel...
In December 1996 I found myself flying to Tel Aviv with Sir Roy Shaw and six other human rights campaigners to appeal to the president of Israel to release Mordechai Vanunu from imprisonment for revealing the existence of Israel's nuclear...
Amid all the talk of Iran is aiming to equip itself with nuclear weapons (Report, 14 April), it seems too often ignored that the one Middle East country that indisputably has nuclear weapons is Israel. The person who, in 1986,...
Israel has until Sunday to respond on the nuclear whistleblower's bid to leave the country. It's time to stop punishing him Mordechai Vanunu , the Israeli whistleblower who served 18 years in prison for revealing details of Israel's nuclear weapons programme,...
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu wants to obey Israeli law and lose his citizenship. The UK has an obligation to him Twenty-five years ago Mordechai Vanunu, a young Israeli nuclear technician, came to London to pass on information to a British newspaper...
Today marks seven years since Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower, was released from Ashkelon prison to face the assembled world's media, having served his full sentence of 18 years (11.5 years in solitary confinement) for revealing the truth of...
He survived his vindictive spell in isolation, and pariah status, with head unbowed - now Israel must allow him to go When the nuclear whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu, was released from prison in 2004 after serving 18 years, 12 of them in...
Whistleblower says repeatedly harrassing and arresting him over unauthorised meetings is 'Israel's problem' Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistleblower who spent 18 years in jail for exposing Israel's nuclear capabilities was released today after completing a further three-month sentence. Vanunu, 56, a former...
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