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The Case For a Pardon of Edward Snowden by President Trump
The Case For a Pardon of Edward Snowden by President Trump The real criminals are those he exposed: the security state officials who illegally and unconstitutionally spied on innocent people by the millions, and who still do so. Edward Snowden speaks via video link at a news conference for the launch of a campaign calling […]
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, […]
At A Time Of Rapidly Creeping Authoritarianism, Assange’s Freedom Is More Crucial Than Ever
At A Time Of Rapidly Creeping Authoritarianism, Assange’s Freedom Is More Crucial Than Ever My home state of Victoria has become the center of attention in the anti-lockdown movement for its authoritarian crackdown against not just people who are in violation of lockdown protocol, but people who merely post about staging future anti-lockdown protests on social media. […]
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 […]
2020 Is The Year The Unseen Becomes Seen
2020 Is The Year The Unseen Becomes Seen 2020 is the year of Julian Assange’s extradition trials, the Kafkaesque proceedings by which the US government is attempting to imprison the WikiLeaks founder for the rest of his life as punishment for exposing US war crimes. Assange started an innovative leak publishing outlet on the premise that corrupt […]
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 […]
Covering the Julian Assange Story
Covering the Julian Assange Story With corporate TV and press abandoning the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher, Consortium News has been in the forefront among alternative media in chronicling his plight. But we can’t do it without you. Assange outside UK Supreme Court in 2011. (Flickr) Except for a brief moment after his dramatic arrest, the mainstream media has abandoned Julian Assange. […]
