Julian Assange judge previously acted for MI6
One of the two High Court judges who will rule on Julian Assange’s bid to stop his extradition to the US represented the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the Ministry of Defence,...
View ArticleTop Secret Document Exposes UK Role in Ghana Coup
Britain’s Foreign Office engaged in “covert attacks” against the government of Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah, a recently declassified file reveals. The objective was to create “an atmosphere” in...
View ArticleWhy does the Guardian write so many puff pieces on G.C.H.Q?
Most of the articles the Guardian publishes about GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, are puff pieces, our research has found. We reviewed all the paper’s 59 articles tagged with GCHQ in the...
View ArticleStakeknife: Britain’s spy in Ireland who got away with murder
Over decades of bloody conflict in Northern Ireland, a near sacred mystique grew up around the intelligence services. Spoken of in reverential tones, largely unaccountable and unscrutinised, they were...
View ArticleUK intelligence secretly funded leftist magazine, then covered it up
Encounter was an intellectual and cultural magazine set up during the Cold War with secret funds from the US and British intelligence agencies. The magazine’s purpose was to cultivate a compatible,...
View ArticleVictims of CIA Kenyan hit squad win compensation after our exposé
Kenya’s High Court has awarded around £40,000 to the family of a man killed by a CIA-backed paramilitary team. Omar Faraj, a 39-year-old cashier, was shot dead in the coastal city of Mombasa in 2012....
View ArticleWho bombed Dublin? The 50 year cover up must end
Fifty years ago today, four car bombs exploded in Dublin and the Irish border town of Monaghan. They took 34 lives, including an unborn baby. It was the greatest loss of life in any single day of the...
View ArticleICC must investigate British ministers for complicity in Gaza war crimes
With the ICC’s chief prosecutor issuing an application for an arrest warrant against Israel’s prime minister for “war crimes and crimes against humanity”, attention must turn to those who have aided...
View ArticleThe Manchester bombing cover-up continues
Will the truth about the UK secret state’s connections to the Manchester bomber ever be revealed? Not if MI5 and David Cameron can help it. The security service has been decidedly unforthcoming in...
View ArticleThe British spy squad assisting Israel as it bombs Gaza
A senior Israeli official has said that a British spy team has been deployed to Israel since it began bombing Gaza in October. The new information came in a New York Times article on Saturday about...
View ArticleWhen Bin Laden set up a base in London
Thirty years ago this month, Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden established an office in a house in Kilburn, west London. Seven years before 9/11, Bin Laden’s so-called Advice and Reformation Committee...
View ArticleRAF spy flights over Gaza risk complicity in Israeli torture
Israel’s torture of Palestinian prisoners should have serious consequences for UK intelligence cooperation with Tel Aviv, human rights groups have warned. It comes as Keir Starmer suspended some arms...
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