Articles by Ben Cowles

Punk or not, don't miss this

Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month

World | Monday 17th Mar 2025

Unicef: A million children in Gaza ‘are living without the very basics they need to survive’

Features | Thursday 13th Mar 2025

Make anti-racism cool again

World | Wednesday 29th Jan 2025

Two lives could have been saved had Malta launched rescue sooner, activists say

Monday 02nd Dec 2019

European inaction condemned as NGOs rescue over 100 people in one day in the Mediterranean

ACTIVISTS condemned European inaction today after two NGO refugee rescue ships saved the lives of over 100 people in the Mediterranean yesterday.

Wednesday 13th Nov 2019

Christian supremacist anoints herself ‘interim’ president of Bolivia

BOLIVIA has plunged into further chaos after an apparently Christian supremacist politician anointed herself interim president as footage on social

Wednesday 13th Nov 2019

US humanitarian on trial for providing aid to migrants at the border

A US judge banned a humanitarian activist from mentioning President Donald Trump in court yesterday, where he stands accused of harbouring undocume

Wednesday 13th Nov 2019

IEA criticised for ‘guiding the world towards climate chaos’

The International Energy Agency was denounced for ‘promoting massive investment in fossil fuels’

Tuesday 12th Nov 2019

Messi and Suarez urged not to ‘cash in’ on Israeli apartheid

Palestinians call on the football stars to cancel their international friendly in Tel Aviv

Monday 11th Nov 2019

Did the BBC deliberately use the wrong footage of Johnson?

If they did, then that would be an unforgivable propaganda stunt of North-Korean proportions, writes BEN COWLES

Wednesday 30th Oct 2019

EU accused of ‘institutional racism’ in the way it handles Mediterranean rescues

‘If white Europeans had been on the boat, they probably wouldn’t have had to wait so long,’ NGO says after EU nations ignored the boat's distress call

Sunday 27th Oct 2019

Gunships attempt to prevent NGO rescue of 91 refugees off the coast of Libya

Social media post claims the armed men were not part of the EU-funded Libyan Coastguard

Thursday 24th Oct 2019

EU anti-refugees policies have ‘reached yet another low,’ NGO charges

Alarm Phone details troubling conversation with Maltese maritime authorities which allowed the Libyan Coastguard to intercept a migrant boat within its search and rescue area

Wednesday 23rd Oct 2019

Three-year-old refugee boy dies after boat struck by Greek coastguard vessel

Articles by Ben Cowles

Punk or not, don't miss this

Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month

Unicef: A million children in Gaza ‘are living without the very basics they need to survive’

Make anti-racism cool again

Two lives could have been saved had Malta launched rescue sooner, activists say

European inaction condemned as NGOs rescue over 100 people in one day in the Mediterranean

ACTIVISTS condemned European inaction today after two NGO refugee rescue ships saved the lives of over 100 people in the Mediterranean yesterday.

Christian supremacist anoints herself ‘interim’ president of Bolivia

BOLIVIA has plunged into further chaos after an apparently Christian supremacist politician anointed herself interim president as footage on social

US humanitarian on trial for providing aid to migrants at the border

A US judge banned a humanitarian activist from mentioning President Donald Trump in court yesterday, where he stands accused of harbouring undocume

IEA criticised for ‘guiding the world towards climate chaos’

The International Energy Agency was denounced for ‘promoting massive investment in fossil fuels’

Messi and Suarez urged not to ‘cash in’ on Israeli apartheid

Palestinians call on the football stars to cancel their international friendly in Tel Aviv

Did the BBC deliberately use the wrong footage of Johnson?

If they did, then that would be an unforgivable propaganda stunt of North-Korean proportions, writes BEN COWLES

EU accused of ‘institutional racism’ in the way it handles Mediterranean rescues

‘If white Europeans had been on the boat, they probably wouldn’t have had to wait so long,’ NGO says after EU nations ignored the boat's distress call

Gunships attempt to prevent NGO rescue of 91 refugees off the coast of Libya

Social media post claims the armed men were not part of the EU-funded Libyan Coastguard

EU anti-refugees policies have ‘reached yet another low,’ NGO charges

Alarm Phone details troubling conversation with Maltese maritime authorities which allowed the Libyan Coastguard to intercept a migrant boat within its search and rescue area

Three-year-old refugee boy dies after boat struck by Greek coastguard vessel

A THREE-YEAR-OLD refugee boy drowned in the Aegean Sea yesterday after the boat carrying him and 33 other people was rammed by the Greek coastguard

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