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Professional Assange Smearers Finally Realize His Fate Is Tied To Theirs
Professional Assange Smearers Finally Realize His Fate Is Tied To Theirs Rachel Maddow has aired a segment condemning the new indictment against Julian Assange for 17 alleged violations of the Espionage Act. Yes, that Rachel Maddow. MSNBC’s top host began the segment after it was introduced by Chris Hayes, agreeing with her colleague that it’s surprising that more news outlets aren’t giving this […]
The Prosecution Of Julian Assange Is Infinitely Bigger Than Assange
The Prosecution Of Julian Assange Is Infinitely Bigger Than Assange Julian Assange’s mother reported yesterday that the WikiLeaks founder has not been permitted any visitors during his detention in Belmarsh Prison, including from doctors and his lawyers. Doctors who visited Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy have attested that he urgently needs medical care. Belmarsh is a maximum security prison sometimes […]
Delegitimising Journalism: The Effort to Relabel Julian Assange Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair “Your honour, I represent the United States government”. The Westminster Magistrates Court had been left with little doubt by the opening words of the legal team marshalled against the face of WikiLeaks. Julian Assange was being targeted by the imperium itself, an […]
The Martyrdom of Julian Assange
The Martyrdom of Julian Assange The arrest Thursday of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British and U.S. governments, in the seizure of Assange are ominous. They presage a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially […]
The Legal Narrative Funnel That’s Being Used To Extradite Assange
The Legal Narrative Funnel That’s Being Used To Extradite Assange Isn’t it interesting how an Ecuadorian “asylum conditions” technicality, a UK bail technicality, and a US whistleblowing technicality all just so happened to converge in a way that just so happens to look exactly the same as imprisoning a journalist for telling the truth? Following […]
“Assange Is Not A Journalist!” Yes He Is, Idiot.
“Assange Is Not A Journalist!” Yes He Is, Idiot. As we discussed yesterday, whenever Assange is in the news and people are defending him you always see a bunch of hyper-emotional empire loyalists running around online trying to manage the narrative about him. One of the most common talking points which comes up is that Assange is […]
Why Has Everything Turned Sour? Is it the Press? Or is the Press Part of the Cycle?
Why Has Everything Turned Sour? Is it the Press? Or is the Press Part of the Cycle? QUESTION: Hello Mr. Armstrong,I´d like your opinion on this,During 7 Decades in which our lives got better, longer, richer, safer, healthier, better educated, more peaceful and more stimulating. Even World poverty has decreased in a rate never seen before, […]
Throwing Money at Media Won’t Fix Canada’s News Deficit
Throwing Money at Media Won’t Fix Canada’s News Deficit We need to reform government so citizens have a reason to care, and slash secrecy that prevents journalists from doing their jobs. But as one of this country’s digital journalism pioneers (I founded a popular online investigative news site called Public Eye before such ventures became fashionable), I […]
It’s official: Russiagate is this generation’s WMD
It’s official: Russiagate is this generation’s WMD The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it Note to readers: in light of news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation is complete, I’m releasing this chapter of Hate Inc. early, with a few new details added up top. Nobody wants to […]
All Along the Watchtower
All Along the Watchtower ‘There must be some way out of here’Said the joker to the thief‘There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no reliefBusinessmen, they drink my winePlowmen dig my earthNone of them along the line know what any of it is worth’ ‘No reason to get excited’, the thief he kindly spoke‘ There […]
DOJ, Rosenstein Working To Better Spy On Journalists, Target Leakers
DOJ, Rosenstein Working To Better Spy On Journalists, Target Leakers Over the past few months, the Department of Justice has been quietly engaged an effort to revise its guidelines governing the rules for seizing records from journalists – especially when it comes to leak cases, reports The Hill‘s John Solomon. The effort has the potential to […]
The Curious Case of The Economist: How It Manipulates Its Readers with Slanted Comment on Russia
The Curious Case of The Economist: How It Manipulates Its Readers with Slanted Comment on Russia The Economist magazine is an admirable publication to which I have subscribed for over fifty years, with gaps now and then. While serving in Vietnam in 1970 its weekly arrival was a major event, as we were bereft of sensible reportage about […]
Trump Derangement International
Trump Derangement International Diego Velázquez The Spinners 1655-60 Dirk Kurbjuweit, deputy editor-in-chief of Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine for the past 4 years, unwittingly put his foot a mile deep in his mouth this week when he reacted to a letter written by US Ambassador to Berlin Richard Grenell. His reaction presents perhaps the most […]
