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Julian Assange should be freed
Julian Assange should be freed The appeal by the US government to extradite Julian Assange to the United States bewilders this writer. Even that the US should seek to extradite Julian Assange for the crime of WikiLeaks’ publication of secret US military documents a decade ago is equally bewildering. For the opinion of this writer […]
Everything Going Great
Everything Going Great Bad Faith, Worse News, and Julian Assange Gospel, a word from Old English, is a compound that means “good news.” And it’s gospel that’s been in short-supply as we head into the Christmas season. Whenever this fact gets me down, I remember that finding evil, malfeasance, and even suffering in the headlines […]
The Assange Issue Is NOT Complicated: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The Assange Issue Is NOT Complicated: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The most powerful regime on the planet imprisoning a journalist for journalistic activity is as brazen and obvious an act of tyranny as you could possibly come up with, and yet you still […]
They’re Killing Him: Assange’s Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw
They’re Killing Him: Assange’s Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Julian Assange suffered a mini-stroke in October during the hearing for the US appeal of a UK court’s ruling on his extradition case. “The WikiLeaks publisher, 50, who is being held on remand […]
Julian Assange Loses Appeal: British High Court Accepts U.S. Request to Extradite Him for Trial
Julian Assange Loses Appeal: British High Court Accepts U.S. Request to Extradite Him for Trial Press freedom groups have warned Assange’s prosecution is a grave threat. The Biden DOJ ignored them, and today won a major victory toward permanently silencing the pioneering transparency activist. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media outside the High […]
What It Means To Be Human
What It Means To Be Human William-Adolphe Bouguereau Whisperings of Love 1889 What’s the difference between Julian Assange being robbed of his freedom for 12 years and you being robbed of yours for two? From a legal point of view, very little. Because both are based on, “justified by”, no existing laws. They are based on people […]
John Pilger: A Judicial Kidnapping
John Pilger: A Judicial Kidnapping Julian Assange’s High Court judges offered no mitigation, no suggestion that they had agonised over legalities or even basic morality, writes John Pilger. “Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us” –- Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre’s words should echo in all our minds […]
British Court Rules Julian Assange Can Be Extradited To US
British Court Rules Julian Assange Can Be Extradited To US More than 2.5 years have passed since Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy in London after 7 years in hiding from British authorities, during which time Assange has struggled through a lengthy court battle, all while remaining imprisoned. And yet it […]
US Coverup Of Syria Massacre Shows The Danger Of The Assange Precedent
US Coverup Of Syria Massacre Shows The Danger Of The Assange Precedent Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The New York Times has published a very solid investigative report on a US military coverup of a 2019 massacre in Baghuz, Syria which killed scores of civilians. This would be the second investigative report on civilian-slaughtering US airstrikes […]
Chris Hedges: The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time
Chris Hedges: The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time If he is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Scheerpost) – For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via […]
The Assange persecution lays out Western savagery at its most transparent
The Assange persecution lays out Western savagery at its most transparent The first day of the US appeal in the Julian Assange extradition case saw grown adults arguing in court that the US government could guarantee that it wouldn’t treat the WikiLeaks founder as cruelly as it treats other prisoners. I wish I was kidding. […]
From Press Freedom To Prison Systems, Everything Assange Touches Gets
From Press Freedom To Prison Systems, Everything Assange Touches Gets Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The US appeal of a British court ruling on the Assange extradition case has concluded, and the judges will probably not have a decision ready until at least January—a full year after the extradition was denied by a […]
‘Gamechanger’ Hearing As US Seeks Overturn Of Extradition Ban
Julian Assange In Court For ‘Gamechanger’ Hearing As US Seeks Overturn Of Extradition Ban WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who still languishes in London’s high security Belmarsh Prison, will appear in court on Wednesday and Thursday for a key hearing that could prove to be a potential gamechanger. The court will decide among other things whether the US […]
Netflix To Launch WikiLeaks Smear Job Three Days Before Assange Court Date
Netflix To Launch WikiLeaks Smear Job Three Days Before Assange Court Date Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Netflix will begin streaming a brazen hatchet job on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for its American subscribers on October 24th, just three days prior to a significant court date in Assange’s fight against extradition from the UK […]
“They Were Seeing Blood”: Bombshell Report Details CIA’s ‘Kidnap Or Kill’ Plans Against WikiLeaks’ Assange
“They Were Seeing Blood”: Bombshell Report Details CIA’s ‘Kidnap Or Kill’ Plans Against WikiLeaks’ Assange A bombshell Yahoo News investigation published Sunday is being called the most important deep-dive exposé in years detailing the lengths the CIA and US national security state went to nab WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was holed up at the Ecuadoran […]
