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Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark documents how corporations are halting legitimate action and investigation by activists. Using exclusive access to previously confidential sources, Eveline Lubbers shows how companies such as Nestl√©, Shell and McDonalds use covert methods to evade accountability. 

Published by Pluto Books
Price: £17.50 (hardback)
Website: www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745331850&

Oil lies at the heart of Iraqi politics. Yet in the eight years since the bombs began to fall on Baghdad it has been a taboo subject. In Greg Muttitt's gripping and far-reaching investigation we are taken behind the scenes of the occupation to answer one of the war's most pressing questions: what is happening to Iraq's oil?

Published by Random House
Price: £9.89 (paperback)
Website: www.fuelonthefire.com

 

Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy, by Heather Brooke

Revealing that the recent MPs' expenses scandal is merely the tip of the iceberg, Heather Brooke exposes the shocking lack of transparency at all levels of government. At a time when the State knows more than ever about us, Brooke argues that without access to the information that citizens pay for, Britain can never be a true democracy.

Published by Arrow
Price: £6.50 (paperback)
Website: http://heatherbrooke.org/books/silent-state/

 

Londongrad – From Russia with Cash, by Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley 

The incorporation of the European Convention of Human Rights in UK Law, has made the principle of free speech a positive right. But what is the law of freedom of expression and privacy and how does it affect the media? This new edition of Media Law and Human Rights provides practical coverage of the impact of human rights principles in media law. Recommended reading for journalism students.

Paul Radu’s new handbook for investigative reporters tracking corruption across borders is now available online from the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism.

The handbook provides an array of new tools for investigative journalists that will help them give the public a better understanding of regional and global criminal networks.

A unique insider account of the rise and fall of ITV, as seen through the fate of Granada Television, and the ripple effect on the standard of broadcasting we see on our screens today. The Dream That Died unfolds the story of 25 years in which ‘the best broadcasting system in the world’ was turned into ‘ignorance and self-interest, the idiocy and feeble mindedness that is 21st century ITV’.

To order email ray@fitzwalter.co.uk
Price: £19.99 (hardback plus postage); £14.99 (paperback plus postage)

An award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media. Davies names and exposes the national news stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda.

The inside story of the London-based oligarchs, how they built vast personal fortunes from Russia’s historic wealth and spent them in Britain. A real life case study of the rise of the world’s super-rich, Britain’s remarkable compliance in the transfer of wealth from Russia and the consequences it has wrought.