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Gestapo Courts

By Annie Machon.  This article was first published on Huffington Post. A lot of sound and fury has been expended in the British media over the last few months about the Coalition government's proposal...

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Asymmetric Extradition — the American Way

By Annie Machon. Pub­lished in the Huff­ing­ton Post UK and Inform­a­tion Clear­ing House I blame my part­ner. There I was hav­ing a per­fectly nice day off, poot­ling my way through the Sunday...

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Echelon Redux

By Annie Machon. This article was first published on anniemachon.ch. Just a quickie, as this is some sort of hol­i­day sea­son appar­ently.  How­ever, this did annoy me.   In the same way that...

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Lies, damned lies, and newspaper reporting…

Where to start with this tangled skein of media spin, mis­rep­res­ent­a­tion and out­right hypocrisy? Last week the Sam Adams Asso­ci­ates for Integ­rity in Intel­li­gence presen­ted this year’s award...

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CIA and MI6 "ghost money" in Afghanistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has recently been criticised for taking "ghost money" from the CIA and MI6. The sums are inevitably unknown, for the usual reasons of "national security", but are...

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Woolwich murder — the “why?” should be obvious

The bru­tal murder in Wool­wich last week of Drum­mer Lee Rigby rightly caused shock and out­rage. Inev­it­ably there has been a media feed­ing frenzy about “ter­ror­ist” attacks and home-grown...

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Edward Snowden — the Globalisation of Whistleblowing

By Annie Machon. I have held back from writ­ing about the Edward Snowden NSA whis­tleblow­ing case for the last week — partly because I was immersed in the res­ult­ing media inter­views and talks, and...

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Dearlove Doublethink

In a sen­sa­tional art­icle in a UK news­pa­per last week­end, the former head of the UK’s for­eign intel­li­gence gath­er­ing agency, MI6, appears to have broken the code of omertà around the...

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LIBE whistleblower hearing at the European Parliament

This week I was invited to give a state­ment to the LIBE Com­mit­tee at the European Par­lia­ment about whis­tleblow­ing and the NSA mass sur­veil­lance scandal. I was in good com­pany: ex-NSA Tom...

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Niemoeller Redux - a call to journalists to speak out against the crack down...

I regularly revisit the famous Pastor Martin Niemoeller poem from the Nazi era as his words remain resonant in our post-9/11, "war on terror" world. Over the last week threads of various alarming...

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