Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, par PILKINGTON Ed
Ralph Henry Reese, co-founder of project that offers exiled writers refuge, says attack should serve as wake up call – and call to action.
Moments before Salman Rushdie was nearly murdered at a public event in western New York on Friday, he had signed up to become a roving envoy for writers (…)
, by HELIE LUCAS Marieme
Not everyone is equally eligible to enjoying freedom of expression. This is, at least, what one could deduce from the unequal support met by victims of censorship - death penalty being the ultimate step of censorship.
It is with great relief that we witnessed the general support for Salman (…)
, by HELIE LUCAS Marieme
I was imprudent enough to bring back from a trip to New York a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, bought at the UN shop, which I gave to my then eight-year-old son as a present. For the following months, he persecuted me by ‘claiming his rights’ while making unreasonable demands, (…)
, by HOLMES Oliver, KIRCHGAESSNER Stephanie, WALKER Shaun
Disclosures about political figures put Israel under increasing pressure over extent of surveillance.
[Photo: The NSO Group chief executive, Shalev Hulio. A recent transparency report acknowledges the firm is ‘closely regulated’ by export control authorities in Israel. Composite: (…)
, by LEWIS Paul, PEGG David
NSA whistleblower warns of world in which no phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers if no action taken.
[Edward Snowden on spyware: ’This is an industry that should not exist’ – video]
Governments must impose a global moratorium on the international spyware trade or face a world in (…)
, by The Guardian
What is in the data leak?
The data leak is a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers that, since 2016, are believed to have been selected as those of people of interest by government clients of NSO Group, which sells surveillance software. The data also contains the time and date that numbers (…)
, by MISHRA Pankaj
American liberals, Samuel Moyn wrote last year in Dissent, have never broken ‘with the exceptionalist outlook that cast the United States as uniquely virtuous’, but having Trump in the ‘cockpit of American power’ will reveal ‘just how terrifyingly normal a nation we are, with our populist (…)
, by WEEKS John
Well into the twenty-first century it is difficult to find a major country in which democratic institutions are not under stress, in many cases under aggressive attack.
Introduction: Neoliberal Authoritarianism
In the United States the government has fallen under the control of a profoundly (…)
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