Political scientist, activist and author of the Holocaust Industry and Beyond Chutzpah, the famous Dr. Norman Finkelstein was in Belgium, to talk about his recent book on Gandhi. I attended the talk.

"When President Obama sits in the White House ordering

Journalist Regina Martínez was murdered in Mexico's most corrupt state in April 2012; there is widespread suspicion that the official investigation into the crime is a cover-up.

On 17 April 2012, the La Antigua bar-restaurant in Minatitlán, Veracruz State, Mexico, was the scene of a

Rolando Nájera is a journalist from Chihuahua, northern Mexico. He has worked for a range of different newspapers in one of Mexico's most dangerous cities, Ciudad Juárez. He was a friend and colleague of the crime reporter Armando Rodríguez Carreón who was murdered in front of his young...

Abebe Tolla, (better known as Abé Tokichaw) was a newspaper satirist for Feteh newspaper in Ethiopia. He fled the country in November 2011, fearing imprisonment in retaliation for his critical news commentaries. Ethiopia is one of the repressive states in the world: the government uses very broad anti-terrorism legislation to...

The London Olympic Games of 2012 could be renamed the Return of the Drug Cheats. After serving bans of various lengths for taking illegal, performance-enhancing substances, sprinters Justin Gatlin (US), Dwain Chambers (UK), and cyclist David Millar (UK) are all making comebacks. Fans and fellow athletes are divided over the...

The first six months of 2012 saw 8 journalists and writers murdered in Mexico; that shameful statistic puts this summer's G20 host country ahead of conflict-ravaged Somalia (6 killings) and just behind blood-soaked Syria (11 killings).

Although there are other countries in the G20 - Russia and...

Erick Martínez Ávila, a 32-year old Honduran journalist and gay rights activist, was found dead and dumped in a ditch in Guasculile on 7 May 2012. His killers strangled him, and in doing so, brought the total number of journalists murdered in Honduras since 2007 to twenty-seven.

Martínez was a...

On 13 March 2012, the Mexican Senate approved an amendment to the law that would make any attack on journalists a federal crime.

If you're wondering why that might be important, you should consider the case of Miguel Ángel López Velasco, a columnist for the Veracruz-based newspaper, Notiver.

You probably haven't heard of Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz. She was the mother of two daughters and a crime reporter for Notiver, a daily newspaper in the Mexican state of Veracruz. On 24 July 2011, she was abducted by gunmen from in front of her home. Two days later...