Remember the time when a Middle East state was hunting the author of a document deemed to be a threat against its sovereignty? No, I'm not talking about Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange and the USA. Salmon Rushdie was just such a target during the early 1990s. Forced to go into hiding to flee st...

All the wikileaks mirrors available after site blocked by US government. "Liste der Wikileaks-Spiegel" 1. http://freie-re.de/ 2. http://wikileaks.terrax.info/ 3. http://www.powned.tv/wikileaks/ 4. http://wikileaks.info/ 5. http://digitalevuilnisman.nl/wikileaks/ 6. http://wikileaks.2600nl.net/ 7....

Syria has a long history of arbitrary arrest, unfair trails and prolonged detention of suspects. Thousands of political prisoners remain in detention, with many belonging to the banned Muslim Brotherhood and the Communist Party, yet ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe insisted on meeting with...

THE Mail & Guardian's 25-year anniversary book launch in Cape Town is emblematic of where the 'alternative" media has gone wrong. The throng of pensioners, aged and walking wounded which greeted Shawn De Waal, spoke of the abject failure of the newspaper to reach out to the next generation. It is...

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