Factsheet on ACTA
From European Digital Rights (edri.org).
ACTA and its impact on fundamental rights
Tonight with #vinb: Breakthrough in Europe?
The hollowness at the heart of human rights 'concern'
This business of human rights seems, in part, to be a device for privileged people to escape the discomfort of being the beneficiaries of a hugely unequal society. By Vincent Browne.
It was heartening to witness some 2,000 people packed into the Grand Canal Theatre on 18 June to honour one of the world's iconic campaigners for human rights, Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma.
EU summit verdict: A good decision that will probably go to waste
History is the enemy as 'brilliant' psy-ops become the news
Political systems promising security and social justice have been replaced by piracy, 'austerity' and 'perpetual war'; an extremism dedicated to the overthrow of democracy. By John Pilger.
Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two children who bore witness to the longest war of the 20thcentury. Their terrible deformities were familiar. All along the Mekong river, where the forests were petrified and silent, small human mutations lived as best they could.
Splashing the water
A manifesto for economic sense
The disasters of the 1930s need not be repeated. Two of the world's leading economists ask us to sign a manifesto for economic sense.
The EU doom loop: Bank bailouts reveal true roots of crisis
Rousseau's distrust of representative democracy was well-founded
The idea of democracy was to make the people sovereign but its modern trajectory has been to make people subjects again. By Vincent Browne.
A former “best friend” described him as “false, vain as Satan, ungrateful, cruel, hypocritical and wicked”. He arranged for his five children to be given over to a foundling hospital immediately after their birth. He was vain, truculent, obsessive and solitary.