whistleblower

The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it — John Kiriakou.

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Truth will out and sharp-eyed activist finds Question Time comments as Labour front-bencher derides CPS investigating its own scandal Keir Starmer continues to try to trade off his time as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) running the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to enhance his public image. But his time there was disastrous and at odds […]

Glenn Greenwald details the real story of Julian Assange and why the government attacks certain journalists and not others.

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By Greg Palast / CounterPunch Last week, a Texas pol, Ben Barnes, confessed that he was personally involved—and therefore an eyewitness to–high treason: The Ronald Reagan campaign’s successful secret deal with the Iranian government to hold 52 Americans hostages so that Reagan could defeat Jimmy Carter. Reagan’s skanky deal worked. In 1980, Carter’s failure to […]

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Starmer and Evans ignored whistleblower’s repeated warnings of ‘sadistic’ and ‘criminal’ abuse of vulnerable domestic violence victims – and still has at least two alleged sex pests on his front bench Keir Starmer has promised to halve domestic violence against women and girls if Labour gets into government. He has a long track record of […]

Starmer welcomed Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP back into party this week – but well-known racist comments toward British-Chinese journalist were not Coyle’s only transgression There was widespread outrage among Labour members this week after the the Starmer-led party’s decision to readmit him as a Labour MP, just a few days after Coyle was suspended […]

‘Tories are not very good at chasing out asylum seekers, we’ll be better at it’ sums up hideous message – and not a peep about safe and legal routes so asylum seekers don’t have to risk lives in boats Keir Starmer’s Labour has been rightly slammed today for responding to the Tories’ racist scapegoating of […]

‘Proud Zionist’ Elaina Cohen says Starmer ‘crushing spirit of socialism’ and his ‘mission’ claim shows lack of concern for people On Saturday, Labour party pro-Israel hardliner Margaret Hodge wrote in the Guardian that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘deeply anti-democratic’ plan to put his government above the law and the country’s judicial system is destroying the […]

Former parliamentary staffer says NEC panel told her she couldn’t stand for selection as W Mids mayoral candidate because whistleblowing would ‘bring Labour into disrepute’ On Tuesday, Keir Starmer exploited an appearance with former Spice Girl Mel Brown to – again – trumpet his supposed commitment to tackle violence against women and girls. But just […]

Documents show RMT’s Lynch requested talks when talks with US IBB union collapsed – and before that too, as well as in January as Skwawkbox revealed yesterday Skwawkbox revealed yesterday that the TSSA – which has been rocked this week by sexual harassment and bullying scandals yet is in merger talks with another union with […]