Sri Lanka: Bombing A Refugee Camp 17 Jul 2009 | 08:42 am

Britain and other EU countries sold military equipment worth millions of pounds to the Sri Lankan Government in the last three years of its bloody civil war with the Tamil Tigers, The Times has learnt...

Burma: The Protest of the Monks 2 Jul 2009 | 06:18 am

Buddhist monks pray at a riot police roadblock in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007. About 10,000 anti-government protesters gathered again in Yangon on Thursday despite a violent cr...

Darfur: A village attack 23 Jun 2009 | 10:32 pm

The suffering in Darfur is on an almost unimaginable scale: some 4.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and their number continues to grow as violence and intimidation forces thousa...

G20: Death at a protest 27 Apr 2009 | 01:44 am

On the 1st of April, 2009, as the leaders of the 20 most powerful nations met in London, a man walking through the City was beaten by police; he subsequently died. Not only have police repeatedly lied...

Iraq: "We Don't do Body Counts" 19 Mar 2008 | 11:06 pm

Lieutenant General Tommy Franks, who led the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan during his time as head of US Central Command, once announced, "We don't do body counts." This blunt response to a questi...

Iraq: Mission Accomplished? 19 Mar 2008 | 10:57 pm

Northern Rock: The road to nationalisation 18 Feb 2008 | 11:33 am

Funding problems at Northern Rock, the country's fifth largest mortgage lender, triggered the first run on a British bank in more than a century. As the Times put it at the time: The jitters plaguin...

This Week: Abbott, Neil & Portillo 8 Feb 2008 | 10:50 pm

The best way to spend a Thursday night, watching BBC's politics programme This Week in bed.

Guantanamo Bay: 6th Anniversary 4 Dec 2007 | 03:08 am

On January 11th, 2008, The illegal Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre will "celebrate" it's 6th anniversary. Amnesty International is holding vigils and protests worldwide to shut down Gitmo, which Tony ...

Waterboarding: Charlie Don't Surf 3 Dec 2007 | 10:49 pm

Malcolm Nance, an advisor on terrorism to the US departments of Homeland Security, Special Operations and Intelligence, publicly denounced the practice. He revealed that waterboarding is used in train...