Category Archive: Prose – Non-Fiction

Book Review: No Easy Day

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I was interested to read ‘No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden” by “Mark Owen” (Matt Bissonnette) and co-written by Kevin Maurer. Having read it, I… Read More

Debt Ceilings and Democracy

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Democracy is both a powerful and fragile thing. There are many countries in the world with newly hatched democracies that struggle to really be democratic because of rampant and deeply entrenched corruption, because… Read More

Super-injunctions and the Speed of Twitterlight

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I just finished watching a Dateline London round table discussion on the BBC with a group of journalists discussing the issue of super-injunctions and how technologies like twitter can render these kind of… Read More

Lara Logan, Women Covering Conflict and the Myth of the Press as Observer

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As a woman, I was disgusted and angry to hear about Lara Logan’s sexual assault and beating during the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo. I am also pretty disgusted by people who, albeit… Read More

The Biggest Leak of All: Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange, The Simple Truth & Wikileaks

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Ellesberg quotes Dickens in the latest post on his blog, saying: “there is nothing quite so simple as the truth.” What has always made me wary of the likes of Ellsberg and Julian… Read More

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