By YVONNE RIDLEY WELL the tabloid media is going to have a real feeding frenzy over the next few days after international soccer star Ryan Giggs was dramatically revealed as the figure behind the so-called super privacy injunction. Now that the secret’s out they’ll be picking over every aspect of his private life hunting for [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY AS the news of Osama bin Laden’s death filtered out onto the streets of America it triggered unsightly scenes of undiluted hysteria, chest-thumping and back-slapping which has sadly become a trademark of the vengeful ‘hang’em high’ lobby that emerged from the rubble of 9/11. And just like George W Bush did on [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY There are a number of men being held without charge or trial in Britain’s own version of Guantanamo Bay. And while David Cameron’s government is willing to condemn the existence of this boil on the face of human rights in occupied Cuba it remains silent about those being held in Wiltshire’s Long [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY US Army Private Bradley Manning was arrested, tortured and put in solitary confinement based on the absurd allegation that he is a threat to American national security. His alleged crime is that he handed over classified military and diplomatic documents to the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks. Among the accusations thrown at him by [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY EVERY time I sit down to write an article another expression of people power erupts somewhere within the Arab world, so it’s hard to know where to begin. The most exhilarating thing for me has been the unity displayed in these amazing popular movements; there’s been no room for sectarianism, sexism, ageism [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY US Administrations have been blighted since 9/11 by a deadly cocktail of arrogance and ignorance with a twist of the strong desire for revenge. But before you take aim and fire you have to know your enemy, and the scattergun policies of the Bush and now the Obama regimes have served only [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY AS people across Egypt continued resisting and rising against the brutal dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak it is quite clear they will not stop until he goes. Quite clear to everyone, that is, apart from the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who is so out of touch with what is happening on [...]
YVONNE RIDLEY THE Arab world's sleeping giant has finally woken from its slumbers after years of being drugged and mugged by the West. Having witnessed - and experienced - first hand the brutality of the Egyptian and Tunisian police and their undercover stooges, I can tell you that the uprisings of the masses took real [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY SOMETHING really wonderful happened outside the Tunisian Embassy in London the other day as a crowd of us gathered to continue the demand for justice in the people’s revolution. I was standing next to a woman, and, with tears in her eyes she revealed she had been inside the embassy that morning [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY THE Western media has been somewhat caught out by the rapid demise of one of the most brutal dictators in the world. But not to worry, the CIA famously missed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 after working around the clock 24/7 for five decades warning us constantly of the [...]
