Billy Briggs

Billy Briggs is a freelance investigative journalist based in Scotland, United Kingdom who has reported from many places across the world including Bosnia, Gaza, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland. He focuses on exposing human rights abuses and his articles have been published by - among others - Sunday Mail, Scotland On Sunday, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Herald, British Broadcasting Corporation and Al Jazeera. Briggs has won a raft of awards for his journalism including prizes from Amnesty International and the European Union. He is also editor of a news service provided by the International Network of Street Papers and is part of the team behind Scotland's first not-for-profit investigative media organisation, Scottish Inquirer, to be officially launched in January 2015. Aside from reporting, he lectures on journalism for Bauer Academy.

Dominic West Leads Save the Children’s Call for Suspension of UK Arms Sales to Saudis

There can longer be any credibility to the claim that the U.K. promotes human rights and democracy on the world stage, not while it is supporting one of the most abusive regimes in the world while it bombs one of the poorest countries in the world.

Dominic West Leads Save the Children’s Call for Suspension of UK Arms Sales to Saudis

LONDON -- “The Wire” actor Dominic West is leading a new campaign by charity Save the Children calling for the U.K. government to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which is fighting a war in Yemen. The charity has produced a video with West that shows a laser-guided Paveway IV

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Billy Briggs

Billy Briggs is a freelance investigative journalist based in Scotland, United Kingdom who has reported from many places across the world including Bosnia, Gaza, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland. He focuses on exposing human rights abuses and his articles have been published by - among others - Sunday Mail, Scotland On Sunday, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Herald, British Broadcasting Corporation and Al Jazeera. Briggs has won a raft of awards for his journalism including prizes from Amnesty International and the European Union. He is also editor of a news service provided by the International Network of Street Papers and is part of the team behind Scotland's first not-for-profit investigative media organisation, Scottish Inquirer, to be officially launched in January 2015. Aside from reporting, he lectures on journalism for Bauer Academy.

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US, UK Protect Saudi Arabia From Human Rights Inquiries Despite ‘Clear Evidence Of War Crimes’

Despite assessments that there have been clear violations of international law in the Saudi-led coalition’s war on Yemen, British and American forces continue to supply the coalition with weaponry and help coordinate strikes.

US, UK Protect Saudi Arabia From Human Rights Inquiries Despite ‘Clear Evidence Of War Crimes’

LONDON --- As pressure builds for the British and American governments to cut ties with the Saudi-led coalition accused of war crimes in Yemen, an aid worker highlighted the trauma faced by children in an escalating crisis the United Nations has deemed

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Billy Briggs

Billy Briggs is a freelance investigative journalist based in Scotland, United Kingdom who has reported from many places across the world including Bosnia, Gaza, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland. He focuses on exposing human rights abuses and his articles have been published by - among others - Sunday Mail, Scotland On Sunday, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Herald, British Broadcasting Corporation and Al Jazeera. Briggs has won a raft of awards for his journalism including prizes from Amnesty International and the European Union. He is also editor of a news service provided by the International Network of Street Papers and is part of the team behind Scotland's first not-for-profit investigative media organisation, Scottish Inquirer, to be officially launched in January 2015. Aside from reporting, he lectures on journalism for Bauer Academy.

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‘Mercenaries Unleashed’: Report Highlights Threats Posed By Booming Private Security Industry

‘For too long this murky world of guns for hire has been allowed to grow unchecked. In letting the industry regulate itself, the government has failed,’ the executive director of War On Want tells MintPress.

‘Mercenaries Unleashed’: Report Highlights Threats Posed By Booming Private Security Industry

LONDON --- In a new report, a British anti-poverty charity puts Britain at the center of a growing global mercenary industry worth around $560 million to companies in the United Kingdom alone. In its report, “

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Billy Briggs

Billy Briggs is a freelance investigative journalist based in Scotland, United Kingdom who has reported from many places across the world including Bosnia, Gaza, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland. He focuses on exposing human rights abuses and his articles have been published by - among others - Sunday Mail, Scotland On Sunday, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Herald, British Broadcasting Corporation and Al Jazeera. Briggs has won a raft of awards for his journalism including prizes from Amnesty International and the European Union. He is also editor of a news service provided by the International Network of Street Papers and is part of the team behind Scotland's first not-for-profit investigative media organisation, Scottish Inquirer, to be officially launched in January 2015. Aside from reporting, he lectures on journalism for Bauer Academy.

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Controversy You Can Bank On: British Co-op Bank Closing Pro-Palestine Groups’ Accounts

“Disrupting receipt of these donations will impede our work, even as arms flow unimpeded from Scotland to the Israeli army to commit what Amnesty [International] and others describe as crimes against humanity,” the treasurer of one pro-Palestine NGO tells MintPress.

Controversy You Can Bank On: British Co-op Bank Closing Pro-Palestine Groups’ Accounts

EDINBURGH --- Groups based in the United Kingdom which support human rights causes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories have expressed fears that U.S. hedge funds pressured a major bank into closing their accounts. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which campaigns for Palestinian rights

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Billy Briggs

Billy Briggs is a freelance investigative journalist based in Scotland, United Kingdom who has reported from many places across the world including Bosnia, Gaza, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland. He focuses on exposing human rights abuses and his articles have been published by - among others - Sunday Mail, Scotland On Sunday, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Herald, British Broadcasting Corporation and Al Jazeera. Briggs has won a raft of awards for his journalism including prizes from Amnesty International and the European Union. He is also editor of a news service provided by the International Network of Street Papers and is part of the team behind Scotland's first not-for-profit investigative media organisation, Scottish Inquirer, to be officially launched in January 2015. Aside from reporting, he lectures on journalism for Bauer Academy.

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World Bank Peddling Private, For-Profit Schools In Africa, Disguised As Aid

Aid is being used as a tool, a spokesperson for Global Justice Now tells MintPress, to compel the majority of the world to undertake policies which help Western business while undermining public services in emerging nations.

World Bank Peddling Private, For-Profit Schools In Africa, Disguised As Aid

Private, for-profit schools in Africa funded by the World Bank and U.S. venture capitalists have been criticized by more than 100 organizations who’ve signed a petition opposing the controversial educational venture.

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Billy Briggs

Billy Briggs is a freelance investigative journalist based in Scotland, United Kingdom who has reported from many places across the world including Bosnia, Gaza, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland. He focuses on exposing human rights abuses and his articles have been published by - among others - Sunday Mail, Scotland On Sunday, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Herald, British Broadcasting Corporation and Al Jazeera. Briggs has won a raft of awards for his journalism including prizes from Amnesty International and the European Union. He is also editor of a news service provided by the International Network of Street Papers and is part of the team behind Scotland's first not-for-profit investigative media organisation, Scottish Inquirer, to be officially launched in January 2015. Aside from reporting, he lectures on journalism for Bauer Academy.

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Scottish Police Investigating British Role In CIA Kidnapping, Torture

A British human rights nonprofit turns up evidence that CIA planes refueled at Scottish airports, prompting Scottish police to open an investigation into Britain’s role in the U.S. post-9/11 torture program.

Scottish Police Investigating British Role In CIA Kidnapping, Torture

A small plane taxis at the airport in Szymany, Poland, Tuesday,  Oct. 19, 2010. Lawyers and rights activists believe that this was the airport used to ferry terrorism suspects in and out of Poland when the CIA ran a secret prison in the eastern European country. Police in Scotland are now investigating CIA rendition programs in

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Billy Briggs

Billy Briggs is a freelance investigative journalist based in Scotland, United Kingdom who has reported from many places across the world including Bosnia, Gaza, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland. He focuses on exposing human rights abuses and his articles have been published by - among others - Sunday Mail, Scotland On Sunday, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Herald, British Broadcasting Corporation and Al Jazeera. Briggs has won a raft of awards for his journalism including prizes from Amnesty International and the European Union. He is also editor of a news service provided by the International Network of Street Papers and is part of the team behind Scotland's first not-for-profit investigative media organisation, Scottish Inquirer, to be officially launched in January 2015. Aside from reporting, he lectures on journalism for Bauer Academy.

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Concerns Mounting Over Secretive Trans-Atlantic Trade Deal TTIP

“It’s not just a trade deal. It’s an unprecedented transfer of power away from democratically-elected governments toward transnational corporations,” an organizer with Global Justice Now Scotland tells MintPress News.

Concerns Mounting Over Secretive Trans-Atlantic Trade Deal TTIP

President of France Francois Hollande, U.S. President Barack Obama, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel attend the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) meeting at the G20  the G-20 leaders summit in Brisbane, Australia, Sunday, Nov. 16,

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Billy Briggs

Billy Briggs is a freelance investigative journalist based in Scotland, United Kingdom who has reported from many places across the world including Bosnia, Gaza, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland. He focuses on exposing human rights abuses and his articles have been published by - among others - Sunday Mail, Scotland On Sunday, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Herald, British Broadcasting Corporation and Al Jazeera. Briggs has won a raft of awards for his journalism including prizes from Amnesty International and the European Union. He is also editor of a news service provided by the International Network of Street Papers and is part of the team behind Scotland's first not-for-profit investigative media organisation, Scottish Inquirer, to be officially launched in January 2015. Aside from reporting, he lectures on journalism for Bauer Academy.

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