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Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War
Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War Share prices of military manufacturers vastly outperformed the stock market overall during the Afghanistan War. May 25, 2002: Two U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters land at Bagram Airfield in Parwan, Afghanistan, after completing a mission. (U.S. National Archives) As the hawks who have been lying about the U.S. […]
The Assange Case Isn’t About National Security, It’s About Narrative Control
The Assange Case Isn’t About National Security, It’s About Narrative Control Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Julian Assange once said, “The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security.” As someone whose life’s work before his imprisonment was combing through documents of an often classified nature, he’d have […]
The Weird, Creepy Media Blackout On Recent Assange Revelations
The Weird, Creepy Media Blackout On Recent Assange Revelations Listen to a reading of this article: As of this writing, it has been three days since the Icelandic newspaper Stundin broke the story that a key witness in the US government’s case against Julian Assange had fabricated allegations against the WikiLeaks founder. And yet, somehow, Assange is still in prison. […]
Chris Hedges: Assange & the Collapse of the Rule of Law
Chris Hedges: Assange & the Collapse of the Rule of Law Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally Thursday night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The People’s Forum. A society that prohibits the capacity […]
Worse Than the Dreyfuss Affair: the Persecution of Julian Assange
Worse Than the Dreyfuss Affair: the Persecution of Julian Assange It may appear unnecessary to repeat the truism that democracy depends on transparency and accountability, and yet, how often has the democratic order been betrayed by our leaders in the recent past? How often have the media abandoned their watchdog function, how often have they […]
Antony Blinken Continues to Lecture the World on Values His Administration Aggressively Violates
Antony Blinken Continues to Lecture the World on Values His Administration Aggressively Violates How can you feign anger over others’ attacks on a free press when you imprison Assange as punishment for his vital revelations about U.S. officials? U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks on the importance of independent journalism, May 6, 2021 (Radio […]
Biden DOJ Files Appeal to Get Assange Extradited
Biden DOJ Files Appeal to Get Assange Extradited The U.S. has filed an appeal with the High Court in London to reverse a decision by a British judge not to extradite the WikiLeaks publisher on health grounds. The liberal administration of Joe Biden proved itself to be no less an enemy of press freedom than Donald Trump […]
‘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 […]
Assange Wins. The Cost: Press Freedom Is Crushed & Dissent Labelled Mental Illness
Assange Wins. The Cost: Press Freedom Is Crushed & Dissent Labelled Mental Illness We must not downplay the price being demanded of us for this victory, writes Jonathan Cook. The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a U.S. demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a U.S. super-max jail for […]
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 […]
The Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn’t Justice
The Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn’t Justice British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but not for the reasons she should have. Baraitser’s frightening ruling supported virtually every US prosecutorial argument that was made during the extradition trial, no matter how absurd and Orwellian. This includes quoting from a long-discredited CNN report […]
Never Forget How The MSM Smeared Assange: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Never Forget How The MSM Smeared Assange: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix The frenetic mass media propaganda campaign against Julian Assange was easily the creepiest and most Orwellian thing I’ve ever witnessed. And now it is silent. It did its job and then disappeared, before the public could really notice what was happening. It’s […]
The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny
The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny The real measure of how free is a society is not how its mainstream, well-behaved ruling class servants are treated, but the fate of its actual dissidents. A billboard van calling for an end to extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange […]
