As Israelis tuned in to hear about what seemed, for a few terrible days, the opening shots in a long-anticipated war, reporters on the Knesset beat...
Israel: The great news blockade
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Britain: Bloggers unite against intimidation
An unprecedented coalition of British bloggers has come together over the last two weeks to fight an assault on freedom of speech from Russian...
Who are the authorities fighting?
The recent developments into investigations of Russian journalists’ murders, the attempts to accuse publicists and writers in extremism and other...
Burma: a history of opression
The press censorship laws in Burma are draconian to say the least. In its latest move the Burmese military junta has disconnected telephone lines of...
Burma: Citizen journalists spread news of protest
The dramatic wave of demonstrations inside Burma in 1988 (popularly known as the 8888 Uprising) took place amidst a virtual media vacuum. The dearth...
With friends like these
Once again, publicity-hungry fanatics are trying to ‘save Islam’ from the mortal threat of publicity-hungry Scandinavian cartoonists. If...
Pakistan: The Justice and the General
March 9 dawned with Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry presiding over his bench in the Supreme Court. He was informed that the president, who...
The true cost of libel
Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, a Saudi-born Irish passport holder, and one of the richest men in the world, is no stranger to the UK libel courts. Since...
Beyond the call of duty
Important efforts have been made in recent years to hold US corporations doing business abroad accountable under US law for aiding and abetting acts...
The politics of murder
On Monday, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika announced the arrest of ten people suspected of involvement in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. Those...