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‘Journalists’ Who Smear Assange Are Pure Scum
‘Journalists’ Who Smear Assange Are Pure Scum I wouldn’t have thought that any mass media reporters would have the temerity to continue the public smear campaign against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after it became clear to everyone that he was the subject of a brutal Trump administration prosecution aimed at criminalizing inconvenient journalism. But if […]
Chris Hedges: The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assange
Chris Hedges: The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assange As is clear from the memoir of one of his attorneys, Michael Ratner, the ends have always justified the means for those demanding the WikiLeaks‘ publisher’s global persecution. (Original illustration for ScheerPost by Mr. Fish) Shortly after WikiLeaks released the “Iraq War Logs” in October 2010, which documented numerous […]
Wikileaks Cables: Saudi Arabia Oil Reserves Overstated
Wikileaks Cables: Saudi Arabia Oil Reserves Overstated UNYOM The United States fears that Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh show. The cables, released by WikiLeaks, urge Washington to take seriously a warning from a senior Saudi government […]
Chomsky, Cockburn and Worthington Forced To Testify Only in Writing in Assange Case
Chomsky, Cockburn and Worthington Forced To Testify Only in Writing in Assange Case I really do not know how to report Wednesday’s events. Stunning evidence, of extreme quality and interest, was banged out in precis by the lawyers as unnoticed as bags of frozen chips coming off a production line. The court that had listened […]
Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance
Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance You can measure the effectiveness of resistance by the fury of the response by ruling elites. Two of the rebels I admire most, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher, and Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, are in jail in Britain. That should not be surprising. You can measure the effectiveness of resistance […]
Julian Assange and the Conservative Press
Julian Assange and the Conservative Press Rembrandt van RIjn A Woman Standing with a Candle c.1631To be honest, I didn’t think it would ever happen, even though it’s been so obvious for so long. But all of a sudden, the conservative voices questioning the Russia collusion narrative and all the investigations that followed from it, are finally […]
The Assange Trial, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The Assange Trial, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix The most powerful government in the world is currently conducting a prosecution to protect its right to lie to the public about the evil things that it does, and somehow the public isn’t shaking the earth with unmitigated rage about this. ~ […]
Greenwald: MSM Journalists Hate Assange Because He’s Broken More Blockbuster Stories Than All Combined
Greenwald: MSM Journalists Hate Assange Because He’s Broken More Blockbuster Stories Than All Combined “Nonsense!” — Julian Assange shouted as during the second day of his resumed extradition hearing US federal government attorney James Lewis told a witness that the WikiLeaks founder is facing extradition over the publication of informants’ names and not for merely handling leaked documents. […]
John Pilger: The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange
John Pilger: The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange The extradition hearing beginning this week is the final act of an Anglo-American campaign to bury Julian Assange. It is not due process. It is due revenge, said John Pilger in a speech Monday outside the court building. Having reported the long, epic ordeal of Julian Assange, […]
Assange Extradition Hearing Resumes on Monday in London
Assange Extradition Hearing Resumes on Monday in London If extradited to US, the WikiLeaks founder could face up to 175 years in prison The extradition hearing for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to resume in London on Monday, September 7th. Assange is currently being held in Belmarsh Prison, and if extradited to the US, […]
WATCH: WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs: What It Means for Press Freedom,
WATCH: WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs: What It Means for Press Freedom WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson leads a discussion with investigative journalists Iain Overton and Chris Woods about the impact of the Iraq War Logs’ release a decade ago. Almost 10 years ago WikiLeaks published the Iraq War Logs along with The New York Times, The Guardian, El Pais, The Washington Post and […]
How We Could Wind Up Banned From Discussing An October Surprise On Social Media This Election
How We Could Wind Up Banned From Discussing An October Surprise On Social Media This Election In what it calls an effort to make itself “a more reliable source for election-related news and information,” YouTube has announced that it will be removing “content that contains hacked information, the disclosure of which may interfere with democratic processes, such […]
THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 8—Busting the Myth WikiLeaks Published Nothing on Israel & Syria
THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 8—Busting the Myth WikiLeaks Published Nothing on Israel & Syria One myth about WikiLeaks is that it favors U.S. enemies and declines to publish documents against them, while another legend is that WikiLeaks, for obscure reasons, is soft on Israel, reports Patrick Lawrence. President Barack Obama meets with members of Congress to discuss […]
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: ’60 Minutes’ Gives Assange Fair Shake
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: ’60 Minutes’ Gives Assange Fair Shake The Australian version of the CBS News program ’60 Minutes’ presented a segment on Julian Assange Sunday night that was missing the usual mainstream media smears and distortions about his case. Consortium News Australia’s 60 Minutes newsmagazine Sunday night aired an extensive interview with Stella Morris, Julian […]
