Unofficial detention centres in Libya are camps where militias torture refugees until their families pay up. EU migration policy is silently complicit in an industry of extortion in a war zone. One warehouse hit by a bomb revealed hundreds of victims held in conditions that recall the Second World War.
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Stories that get under the skin
“Tomorrow they won’t dare to murder us”, by Joseph Andras, confronts one of modern France’s two unpardonable crimes. Sean Sheehan The first was the collaborationist Vichy government that didn’t just come to terms with Nazi power – regretfully, under duress, so the story went – but willingly rounded […]
The mind of a conservative
George Berkeley is best known today as the eighteenth-century thinker who wrote “A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge”. Sean Sheehan He argued that material reality only exists as mental states in the mind. What we think of as reality – the stuff of the world, like […]
Bolivia: Coup, lies and media
Bolivia’s justice system has been abused by years of political interference, but the 2019 coup d’etat surged a plague of impunity surrounding human rights violations. A panel is meeting June 26 to discuss the impact this has had on Bolivia’s citizens. Elle McHale A total of zero people […]
There is only one journalism
In the different journalistic and news coverage and treatment of the events related to the national strike in Colombia, the social mobilisations and the behaviour of the members of the National Police, two circumstances can be distinguished that compromise those who work as journalists and journalism itself. Germán Ayala […]