John Sweeney
Writer at Freelance
Trump is Putin's bitch Lucy Letby: Was There Ever A Crime podcast series Author: Murder In The Gulag; Killer In The Kremlin: https://t.co/i8G1bVJvKN
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Jul 19, 2024 |
dailymail.co.uk | John Sweeney
Alexei Navalny, the dissident Russian politician, thought he’d become untouchable. He calculated that his worldwide status as the single best-known critic of the psychopathic president Vladimir Putin and his fascist state, was, weirdly, a sort of life insurance policy. ‘As I became more and more famous,’ he said in a television documentary in 2022, ‘I was totally sure that my life became safer because it would be problematic for them just to kill me.’Boy, was he wrong.
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Oct 5, 2023 |
indexoncensorship.org | Katie Dancey-Downs |Frederike Geerdink |John Sweeney |Ruth Anderson
Photo: Kennedy Library (CC-BY-NC.20)What do popstar Ariana Grande, filmmaker Guillermo del Torro and 90s rock sensation Garbage have in common? They’ve all joined the fight against book bans in the USA, just ahead of Banned Books Week. Alongside more predictable figures like Margaret Atwood, Roxane Gay and Judy Blume, they are some of more than 170 artists who signed an open letter condemning book bans and calling on Hollywood to use its influence.
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Oct 5, 2023 |
indexoncensorship.org | Frederike Geerdink |John Sweeney |Ruth Anderson
Beijing Coma – Ma JianIn the lead up to the Beijing Olympics, when China was on a global charm offensive, Ma Jian’s book Beijing Coma was published. Through the central character Dai Wei, a protester who was shot in Tiananmen Square and fell into a deep coma, Ma presented the other side of the country, an insecure nation afraid of its past and struggling with its present. Ma stated that he wrote the book “to reclaim history from a totalitarian government whose role is to erase it”.
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Oct 4, 2023 |
indexoncensorship.org | Frederike Geerdink |John Sweeney |Ruth Anderson
The police at London’s Luton airport worked through a list of questions. Did Broomfield consider his reporting to be objective? Did he include multiple sources in his work? How did he get paid? What was his opinion about beheadings, and did he ever send anybody a photo of a beheading? “Not answering the questions is a criminal offense, so I complied,” British journalist Matt Broomfield said about the questioning he was subject to in July.
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War Diary Day 1,190 Trump Always Chickens Out. He is giving Putin the mass murderer two weeks to change his spots. This is foolish. Tonight at 1830 there is a screening of our film Under Deadly Skies at the Arzner Cinema, 10 Bermondsey Square. Then I’ll do a Q&A. No KGB. https://t.co/6URMJnuo2a
One feels so proud https://t.co/RdyHXgOXwh
Free copy of Killer In The Kremlin to whoever asks the most irritating question.
🎬 Join us this Thursday for Lib Dem Film Club! We’re screening Under Deadly Skies – a powerful film on Ukraine’s front line – followed by a Q&A with @johnsweeneyroar, chaired by Cllr @IrinavonWiese 🎟️ Final tickets: https://t.co/WfpuxcqEyJ #StandWithUkraine #LibDemFilmClub https://t.co/WOyU78N2rT
